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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2008
Mikhail Ivanovich Kaniushko, Minsk, RU;
Joanne O'lear, Raleigh, NC (US);
William J. Reilly, Cary, NC (US);
Marco Wahler, Gressthl, GE;
Mikhail Ivanovich Kaniushko, Minsk, RU;
Joanne O'Lear, Raleigh, NC (US);
William J. Reilly, Cary, NC (US);
Marco Wahler, Gressthl, GE;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A network Web service indirect channel distribution system, method and computer program that ensures purchasers are charged the most favored prices. An implementation enabling a system host to negotiate prices for vendor registered goods and services, means for modifying the host negotiated prices and means enabling a purchaser to negotiate a special price for registered goods and services in a specific purchase transaction. An entitled price repository independent of the above-described indirect channel distribution system is associated with this entitled price repository for tracking a plurality of price affecting factors selected from a group of such factors comprising the host negotiated prices, the above-described modified prices, and the specific purchase transaction prices. The entitled price repository correlates all of these price affecting factors to produce a most favored price for the customer/purchaser.