Patent ID: 7593871
Filing Date: 2009-09-22
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. An electronic commerce system to facilitate discount sale of goods and/or services, comprising: a server that employs a processor to construct a plurality of deal rooms sponsored by a supplier of an item that is offered for sale in each of the plurality of deal rooms, wherein access to a deal room of the plurality of deal rooms is determined by the supplier that sponsors the deal room and differs from access requirements of other deal rooms of the plurality of deal rooms; an aggregation component that determines an aggregate quantity of the item ordered in each of the plurality of deal rooms; a price curve component that dynamically updates a price curve for the item based on the aggregate quantity, a price curve attribute, and an indication of the deal room in which an offer for the item is presented; and a communication component that receives the price curve and that presents to a buyer who accesses the deal room the price curve for the item.