Patent ID: 8620763

Claim:
A method, comprising: determining, by a computer of a parent organization, an expected revenue that each member in a set is to pass to the parent organization; identifying, by the computer of the parent organization, top performing members in the set utilizing the expected revenue; optimizing, by the computer of the parent organization, membership of the set, wherein the optimizing step comprises: determining a net impact on revenue for each of a plurality of non-members under consideration for the set, the plurality of non-members being outside of geographical protective areas of the top performing members in the set, the determining including evaluating a revenue that a non-member under consideration for the set is expected to pass to the parent organization; and identifying a candidate member to be included in the set based on the net impact on revenue, the candidate member being one of the plurality of non-members outside of the geographical protective areas of the top performing members in the set and, among the plurality of non-member outside of the geographical protective areas of the top performing members in the set, the candidate member yielding a highest value of the revenue expected to pass to the parent organization.