Patent ID: 8606664
Filing Date: 2013-12-10
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented system for generating a business valuation report over a network responsive to input company information, comprising: a tangible computing processor; a network port in data communication with the processor and operative to couple the processor to a network; a non-transitory computer readable storage device in data communication with the processor and having encoded thereon computer executable instructions operative to implement: a graphical user interface that prompts a valuation requester to input information of a company including general information, financial information, and presence information of the company; a query engine that queries third party locations on the network for information related to the company; a valuation engine having a plurality of rules for calculating, in accordance with the rules, a tiered business valuation of the company using the input company information and the information related to the company from the third party locations; a reporting engine operative to deliver the tiered business valuation in a report to the valuation requester; wherein the calculating the business valuation by the valuation engine includes steps of: wherein the plurality of rules pertain to at least a portion of the input company information and thresholds for its modification which if exceeded, generate a recommendation to obtain a revised business valuation report.