Patent ID: 8429008

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of calculating a sales commission in on-line through a wire/wireless communication network integral to one or more computer systems to distribute new sales, which are obtained according to purchase of articles or services by a sub-member, to a member positioned in an upper layer of the sub-member, the method comprising: Selecting, the member positioned in the upper layer of the sub-member, who has made the new sales when purchasing articles or services after access through the wire/wireless communication network, as a sales commission receiving member; extracting a transformation coefficient stored in a memory of one or more computer systems and corresponding to sales of the sales commission receiving member; dividing sub-members subordinate to a lower layer of the sales commission receiving member into two groups; comparing, by a computer, total new sales of the two groups with each other to select a group having lower total new sales; calculating, by a computer, transformation sales of the sales commission receiving member by multiplying the total new sales of the selected group by the transformation coefficient; calculating an n value stored in a memory of one or more computer systems and obtained by dividing total sales commissions by total transformation sales, the total sales commissions being obtained by multiplying total new sales of all members, who have created new sales, by a preset commission payment rate; and paying a resultant value, which is obtained by multiplying the transformation sales of the sales commission receiving member by the n value, as a sales commission to the sales commission receiving member, wherein the sales commission is calculated based on both the sales of the sales commission receiving member and the new sales of the sub-member to pay the sales commission to the sales commission receiving member.