Patent ID: 7383202

Claim:
A method in a computer system of determining a price for a remote hosting service, comprising: choosing a product offering of the remote hosting service; calculating a minimum price for at least one application to be remotely hosted as part of the chosen product offering; converting a number of users of a first user category into power user equivalents and storing a monthly user dollar amount based on a number of power users and the power user equivalents, a power user having full access at substantially any time to manipulate data for the at least one application as part of the product offering, a user of the first user category having less than full access at substantially any time such that a power user equivalent for the user counts as a fraction or percentage of a power user toward the monthly user dollar amount; calculating a product offering pricing minimum by selecting the greater of the monthly user dollar amount and the minimum price for the at least one application to determine an initial price for the product offering to be remotely hosted; calculating a total remote hosting price including a sum of the initial price for the product offering price and a calculated price for extended services; and generating output indicative of a pricing summary including the total remote hosting price.