Patent ID: 7389214
Filing Date: 2008-06-17
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method in a computer system for analyzing expenditures by category in an electronic commerce environment, comprising the steps of: (a) identifying an electronic file including expenditure data relating to spent monies, wherein the expenditure data is derived with the computer system from a purchasing module including data relating to internal spending of the spent monies, and from a performance service offered by subscription and accessible by the computer system to identify with the performance service an industry analysis related to the spent monies selected by the computer system from a plurality of unique industry analyses, and wherein the expenditure data includes a total cost of ownership; (b) extracting with the computer system the expenditure data from the file; (c) determining an independent variable and a dependent variable relating to the expenditure data; (d) graphing the expenditure data based on the independent variable and the dependent variable with the computer system.