Patent ID: 8082182

Claim:
A method of using a computer system to generate reports, comprising: populating a database with collected commerce information, said collected commerce information including conditional purchase offers submitted by buyers, said conditional purchase offers including, buyer-specified offer prices for goods or services, for use as a basis for determining levels of demand for the goods or services; receiving a request specifying criteria for selecting collected commerce information, said criteria generated from a user's selections made within a user interface and including at least one goods or services parameter value and at least one demand level computed item selection; selecting demand information from collected commerce information based on the user's selections; calculating by a processor a demand level computed value corresponding to the at least one demand level computed item selection based on the demand information; and generating a report of the demand information for the goods or services based on the user's selections, wherein the demand information includes current demand levels for the goods or services and the demand level computed value.