Patent ID: 8548932

Claim:
A system for determining a per-point price for data processing services, comprising: a computing device that operates to: for each unit of a plurality of units of data processing services, determine a level of environmental complexity of the unit, a level of change of the unit, and a type of environment of the unit, wherein each unit of the plurality of units is an application program that runs on a server; for each unit of the plurality of units, assign points responsive to each of level of environmental complexity, level of change, and type of environment, as determined, and sum the assigned points to provide a count of points for the unit; sum the counts of points for all the units of the plurality of units to provide a total number of points for the data processing services; divide a baseline price for the data processing services by the total number of points to provide a per-point price; and one of: respond to a customer request by providing the per-point price for data processing services; and specify to a customer the per-point price for data processing services.