Patents by Inventor Hannes L. Marais

Hannes L. Marais 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).

  • System and method for generating and displaying indexed price modeling data
    Patent number: 7640198
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system suitable for displaying price modeling data having an indexing module that calculates indexes based on price modeling data and a display module configured display a calculated index. Other embodiments provide a data aggregation module that aggregates indexes calculated by the indexing module that may be also be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Vendavo, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Albanese, Sean M. Murphy, Narayanan Vijaykumar, Marc H. Brown, Simon C. Lee, Hannes L. Marais
  • Methods and systems for making pricing decisions in a price management system
    Patent number: 7360697
    Abstract: Pricing decisions and policies in a price management system are made based on a unified database populated with correlated commitment data and transaction data. A historical database is populated with commitment data and transaction data. Each transaction data is then correlated with a commitment data. The resulting correlated data is then analyzed to make pricing decisions and policies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: Vendavo, Inc.
    Inventors: Manojit Sarkar, Simon C. Lee, Niel C. Esary, Hannes L. Marais