Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Finance
Patent
1998-06-29
2000-03-07
MacDonald, Allen R.
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Finance
705 26, 705 27, G06F 1760
Patent
active
060352884
ABSTRACT:
A computer-implemented method and system for negotiating the purchase of goods and/or services by customers utilizes a simulated human merchant having predefined behavioral attributes. An algorithm representing behavioral attributes of a simulated human merchant is used to receive customer input data relating to particular goods and/or services desired to be purchased. The customer input data is processed to generate merchant responses to the customer input data, and the sale of goods and/or services are agreed to at a particular price as a result of processing of customer replies to merchant responses according to the algorithm.
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Cendant Publishing, Inc.
Crecca Michele Stuckey
MacDonald Allen R.
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