Patent ID: 8719110

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for providing information associated with an aggregated interest, comprising: receiving lists of desired items and associated prices from multiple consumers, wherein a given list is associated with a given consumer, and wherein a given item in the given list is associated with a given price, wherein the given price of a given item in a given list is based on what the given consumer wants to pay, and not based on what the provider of the given item wants to offer; for at least one of the items, assigning, by computer, the consumers to different price ranges based on occurrences of the item in the lists of desired items and the associated prices, thereby determining the aggregated interest in the item, wherein the aggregated interest includes numbers of consumers that desire the item in the different price ranges; and providing the information associated with the aggregated interest in the item to at least one entity that provides the item, thereby facilitating sales of the item to a subset of the consumers associated with one or more of the price ranges.