Patent ID: 7107224
Filing Date: 2006-09-12
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented decision analysis system that helps users make values-based decisions by leading them through a set of tools and a process to clarify and quantify their values, search for and identify the most attractive alternatives given their values, search for and identify the most relevant information given both their values and alternatives, and integrate all of these elements to reach testable, documented conclusions, and facilitates decision making by integrating a values-based demand component for buyers of a product or service and a values-based supply component for sellers with feedback loops between the components and value optimization algorithms that enable the system to identify beneficial commercial transactions for participating parties, the system comprising: means for creating a demand component comprising at least one demand-oriented values-based decision analysis component, the demand component being based on: means for creating a supply component comprising at least one supply-oriented, values-based decision analysis component, the supply component being based on: means for combining the specific and general buyer demand values, the specific and general seller supply values, the seller supply values, the demand value tradeoffs, the supply value tradeoffs, the buyer information components and the seller information components to evaluate risk and return characteristics of the buyer alternatives and the seller alternatives; and means for performing sensitivity analysis to show how the risk and return characteristics of the buyer alternatives and the seller alternatives change as the demand values, the supply values, the demand value tradeoffs, the supply value tradeoffs, the buyer information components and the seller information components change.