Patent ID: 8108248

Claim:
A system for pricing resources in a peer-to-peer resource exchange system, said system comprising: a memory area storing resource prices for a plurality of resources in a peer-to-peer resource exchange system, said resource exchange system including consumers and suppliers, said memory area further storing a first value representing an amount of at least one resource of at least one of the suppliers for consumption by one of the consumers, said memory area further storing operation prices for operations performed by the resource exchange system; and a processor programmed to: access, from the memory area, the resource prices and the first value; determine an amount to charge said one of the consumers for at least one of the operations based at least on the first value and an operation price corresponding to said at least one of the operations; enable said at least one resource of at least one of the suppliers to be consumed by said one of the consumers; determine a second value representing an amount of said at least one resource of at least one of the suppliers consumed by said one of the consumers; determine an amount to pay said one of the consumers for one or more resources associated therewith based on the determined second value; determine an amount to pay said at least one of the suppliers based at least on the determined second value; and determine an operation price for each of the operations based on the determined amount to pay said one of the consumers, the determined amount to pay said at least one of the suppliers, and the determined amount to charge said one of the consumers.