Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Competing simulator in multi-channel retailing environment among multiple retailers
- Patent Title (中): 多渠道零售环境中的竞争模拟器
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Application No.: US12859028Application Date: 2010-08-18
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Publication No.: US08386298B2Publication Date: 2013-02-26
- Inventor: Xin Xin Bai , Jin Dong , Ta-Hsin Li , Hai Rong Lv , Wen Jun Yin , Bin Zhang
- Applicant: Xin Xin Bai , Jin Dong , Ta-Hsin Li , Hai Rong Lv , Wen Jun Yin , Bin Zhang
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.
- Agent Daniel P. Morris, Esq.
- Main IPC: G06Q10/00
- IPC: G06Q10/00 ; G06Q30/00

Abstract:
A system, method and computer program product for providing the ability for retailers to devise a current channel strategy (e.g., adaptive price setting) that considers competitors in a dynamic competing environment, and that enables computing a competitive advantage of a channel. To estimate a price for selling a product j in a commerce channel comprises: a) receiving, at a processor device, real market data including sales and price history data of a product j sold by one or more retailers over one or alternate sales channels t; generating, by the processor device, a competitive advantage parameter value based on the sales and price history data; and, computing, utilizing the competitive advantage parameter value, an optimum price for a particular product to be marketed in one of the one or alternate sales channel.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120046991A1 COMPETING SIMULATOR IN MULTI-CHANNEL RETAILING ENVIRONMENT AMONG MULTIPLE RETAILERS Public/Granted day:2012-02-23
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