Patent ID: 8095424

Claim:
A method, comprising: identifying a plurality of media items belonging to a category; grouping using a processor a first plurality of the media items identified as belonging to the category into a first group based on a sales criteria associated with each of the plurality of media items; pricing each media item in the first group according to a first pricing strategy using a processor; sending a first price determined by the processor using the first pricing strategy of a first item of the plurality of items in the first group for sale from a processor to one or more clients over a network; grouping using a processor a second plurality of the media items identified as belonging to the category into a second group based on a sales criteria associated with each of the plurality of media items; pricing each media item in the second group according to a second pricing strategy; sending a second price determined by the processor using the second pricing strategy of a second item of the plurality of items in the second group for sale from a processor to one or more clients over a network; wherein the value of the sales criteria associated with each of the media items in the first group is superior to the value of the sales criteria associated with each of the media items in the second group and wherein the first pricing strategy generates a higher price for media items in the first group than the price generates for each media item in the second group by the second pricing strategy; receiving one or more orders for the second of the plurality of items in the second group at the second price from one or more of the clients, updating the sales criteria for the second of the plurality of items in the second group using the processor, and regrouping the plurality of items into the first and second groups based on the updated sales criteria.