Patent ID: 9576296
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q

Claim:
1. In a networked environment, a system comprising: a remotely-located server comprising: wherein: the metric server adapter includes governing logic programmed to manage at least one evaluation service and a plurality of predefined instructions for managing metric data, and to dynamically define transaction-specific instructions for adapting metric data; the metrics application is a production application programmed to manage one or more purchase and/or analysis processes and to invoke and execute the at least one evaluation service in coordination with the metric server adapter, and to manage one or more user interfaces that, in operation, facilitate interactions with the remotely-located server; the at least one communication application is programmed to manage one or more protocols that facilitate communications between one or more computing devices and the remotely-located server via the network interface; and in operation, in response to receipt of a triggering request from a user-agent computing device, the at least one communication application identifies an applicable protocol for communicating with the user-agent computing device and the metrics application receives, from the user-agent computing device, at least one evaluation scenario for analysis, the at least one evaluation scenario identifying one or more buyer-agents, one or more product specification data sets, and at least one particular time or period of time, wherein each product specification data set identifies at least one item that is defined by a plurality of attributes having attribute data that includes two or more parameter values or a plurality of items having a plurality of attributes that differ by at least one parameter value; wherein receipt of the at least one evaluation scenario triggers the metrics application to invoke the at least one evaluation service which causes the metrics application, for each buyer-agent identified in the at least one evaluation scenario, to: wherein the metrics application is further programmed to communicate, in cooperation with the at least one communication application, at least one performance metric generated for each buyer-agent identified in the at least one evaluation scenario, via the network interface, to at least the user-agent computing device.