Patent ID: 8700521

Claim:
A computer-implemented method to disaggregate a single combined price of a bundled product to discover and evaluate the price of component parts therein, the method comprising: receiving, by a computer, at least one price data set representing a bundled product, wherein the price data set is comprised of component parts that correspond to the component parts of the bundled product, wherein at least one component part of the price data set differs in accordance with at least one parameter value of another component part in the price data set, and wherein the price data set includes a single combined price for all component parts in the price data set; calculating a price for at least one component part of the price data set by: obtaining metric data from at least one source for each component part in the price data set, wherein the metric data includes one or more market reference prices responsive to the component parts; using the metric data, computing a market value for each component part and further computing a market value total for the price data set by summing the computed market values of all the component parts in the price data set; generating a proportional value for at least one component part of the price data set by dividing the market value of the component part by the market value total for the price data set; and calculating a price for the at least one component part by multiplying the price data set's single combined price by the component part's proportional value; and communicating the calculated price of the component part to an output.