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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2005
Shankar Sundaram, San Jose, CA (US);
Ramesh Seshadri, San Jose, CA (US);
Shannon Y. Zhang, Fremont, CA (US);
Sri Raghupathy, San Jose, CA (US);
Simon C. Lee, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Rafael A. Gonzalez-caloni, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Shankar Sundaram, San Jose, CA (US);
Ramesh Seshadri, San Jose, CA (US);
Shannon Y. Zhang, Fremont, CA (US);
Sri Raghupathy, San Jose, CA (US);
Simon C. Lee, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Rafael A. Gonzalez-Caloni, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Vendavo, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a flexible pricing method for providing pricing adjustments for a product in a deal in response to price variations in selected indexes. The method comprises: designating an index for the product wherein said index has a published index value; and computing a price for said product based on said published index value. The invention also provides for periodically re-pricing deals with index-based pricing terms.