Using commercial share of wallet to analyze vendors in online marketplaces
First Claim
1. A method of rating a vendor in a marketplace, comprising:
- (a) modeling industry spending patterns using individual and aggregate corporate data, including financial statement data;
(b) estimating a commercial size of spending wallet of the vendor based on financial statement data of the vendor, total business spend of the vendor, and the model of industry spending patterns; and
(c) rating the vendor based on the commercial size of spending wallet of the vendor.
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Abstract
Commercial size of spending wallet (“CSoSW”) is the total business spend of a business including cash but excluding bartered items. Commercial share of wallet (“CSoW”) is the portion of the spending wallet that is captured by a particular financial company. A modeling approach utilizes various data sources to provide outputs that describe a company'"'"'s spend capacity. Online marketplaces that allow small businesses to advertise their services can use this CSoW/CSoSW modeling approach to provide a rating that gives an indication of the business prospects of the vendors listed on their sites. Further, such marketplaces can combine this information with their own internal analytics to provide a single holistic rating.
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14 Claims
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1. A method of rating a vendor in a marketplace, comprising:
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(a) modeling industry spending patterns using individual and aggregate corporate data, including financial statement data;
(b) estimating a commercial size of spending wallet of the vendor based on financial statement data of the vendor, total business spend of the vendor, and the model of industry spending patterns; and
(c) rating the vendor based on the commercial size of spending wallet of the vendor. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method of rating a plurality of vendors in an online marketplace, comprising:
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(a) modeling industry spending patterns using individual and aggregate corporate data, including financial statement data;
(b) for each vendor, estimating a commercial size of spending wallet of the vendor based on financial statement data of the vendor, total business spend of the vendor, and the model of industry spending patterns;
(c) for each vendor, rating the vendor based on the commercial size of spending wallet of the vendor; and
(d) for each vendor, providing the rating to the online marketplace. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A computer-based system for rating a vendor in a marketplace, comprising:
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a processor; and
a memory in communication with the processor for storing a plurality of processing instructions for directing the processor to model industry spending patterns using individual and aggregate corporate data, including financial statement data, estimate a commercial size of spending wallet of the vendor based on financial statement data of the vendor, total business spend of the vendor, and the model of industry spending patterns, and rate the vendor based on the commercial size of spending wallet of the vendor. - View Dependent Claims (14)
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