System, apparatus and method for reticle grade and pricing...

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C705S026640, C705S037000

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07363236

ABSTRACT:
A method, apparatus and system are provided for determining the price of a reticle set. The system retrieves information related to a specific reticle set from various data sources (e.g., data bases) and determines a price for the reticle set. An example embodiment of the method of the invention for calculating a price of a reticle set comprises:a) receiving customer information for the reticle set and storing the customer information;b) receiving sales order data for the reticle set and storing the sales order data;c) retrieving layer information for the reticle set and storing the layer information;d) retrieving cost data for the layer information for the reticle set and storing the cost data;e) determining the price of the reticle set using the layer information, the sales order data, and the cost data; and storing the price of the reticle set; andf) outputting the price of the reticle set.

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