Patent ID: 8195678

Claim:
A method for processing data of a plurality of different products, comprising: receiving inquiry data that includes data that characterizes a first product and a second product of the plurality of products; automatically reading out of first product data of the first product and of second product data of the second product from a databank device in response to the inquiry data; automatically selecting an evaluation criterion as a function of at least one of (a) the first product data and (b) the second product data; evaluating the first product data and the second product data according to the evaluation criterion; prior to the evaluating, automatically ascertaining a product proposal for the second product in accordance with a filter selected and adjustable as a function of the first product; and outputting the product proposal, the second product being selected by a user for evaluation from the product proposal; wherein the evaluation criterion includes a comparison of a difference of the first product data and the second product data to a predefined threshold value.