Patent ID: 8489514
Filing Date: 2013-07-16
Classification: G06Q,Y02W

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method for generating a price quote for demanufacturing and disposing of a given lot of end-of-life electronic equipment in an environmentally safe manner, said method comprising: obtaining, by a demanufacturing price quote processor, one or more data values describing at least one piece of dismantled electronic equipment; receiving, by the demanufacturing price quote processor, one or more dismantle study data values relating to the obtained one or more data values, said one or more dismantle study data values comprising at least one dismantle study data value having a monetary value; storing, by the demanufacturing price quote processor, the one or more dismantle study data values in each representative equipment group of a plurality of representative equipment groups of electronic equipment; computing, by the demanufacturing price quote processor, a respective group quantity of electronic equipment in each representative equipment group; computing, by the demanufacturing price quote processor, at least one product by multiplying each dismantle study data value of the at least one dismantle study data value by the respective group quantity; calculating, by the demanufacturing price quote processor, a profit or loss for each representative equipment group in dependence on the computed at least one product; calculating, by the demanufacturing price quote processor, a net profit or loss by adding together the calculated profit or loss of the representative equipment groups of the plurality of representative equipment groups; ascertaining, by the demanufacturing price quote processor, that the calculated net profit or loss is a net loss; adjusting, by the demanufacturing price quote processor, the net profit or loss by increasing the net loss by a specified pricing contingency factor; and determining, by the demanufacturing price quote processor, the price quote using the adjusted net profit or loss; wherein the demanufacturing price quote processor comprises a computer hardware processor.