System and method for dynamic price setting and facilitation of commercial transactions
First Claim
1. In conjunction with a first database server for comparing offers by vendors, a system comprising a second database server comprising information relating to a plurality of enrolled members;
- an information bus in communicative connection to the first database server;
a processor in communication with the first database server and the information bus; and
an input means for storing information in association with the offers in the first database server indicative of presenting the offers to customers on the second database server.
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Abstract
The present invention provides methods and systems for defining commercial transaction components; defining rules for mapping customer transactions into individual components; market segmentation in light of these individual definitions and bundling individual components of an offer into optimized packages for presentation and sale. A data processing system in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, examines the commercial behavior of enrolled customers, breaks each of the constituent transactions into purchases of atom-level components; catalogues those components; extracts demographic information from said transactions and other sources; facilitates demographic studies of groups of such customers; optimizes offerings to such groups; and facilitates the consummation of those offers of sale. The processing system may also facilitate customers fiscal management through the communication of data necessary to practice the instant invention.
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15 Claims
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1. In conjunction with a first database server for comparing offers by vendors, a system comprising
a second database server comprising information relating to a plurality of enrolled members; -
an information bus in communicative connection to the first database server;
a processor in communication with the first database server and the information bus; and
an input means for storing information in association with the offers in the first database server indicative of presenting the offers to customers on the second database server. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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