Patents by Inventor Catheryne M. Nicholson

Catheryne M. Nicholson has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7454367
    Abstract: A dynamic pricing system and method that enables prices for sellable objects to be dynamically adjusted using pricing factors corresponding to attributes of the sellable objects. Product administrators are enabled to define sellable products and extended attributes for the products, while pricing administrators are enabled to define price lists for the sellable products and extended attributes. Sales representatives build sellable objects, such as quotes, orders, shopping carts, etc, by adding products that customers would like to purchase to the sellable object. Additionally, extended attributes may be selected for all or a portion of the products. Using Static Pricing, an initial or static price is determined for the sellable objects. The static price may then be dynamically adjusted prior to or at the point of a sales transaction or offer using pricing factors corresponding to combinations of various attributes of the sellable object and/or products from which it is built.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Siebel Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Jai-Jein Yu, Catheryne M. Nicholson, Michael Tsunghsi Yu, Yan Tan, Do Joon Ra, Michael Zhen Hao Li, Karen Hsu, Piyush Govil