Patent Document ID: 20090204459
Application ID: 12027328
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method of automatically prioritizing a plurality of customer requirements, comprising: receiving, by a computing unit, a request for fulfilling a customer requirement associated with a business opportunity, wherein said customer requirement includes one or more modifications to a product; obtaining, by said computing unit, a set of prioritization data associated with said customer requirement, wherein said set of prioritization data includes a plurality of revenue opportunity sizes, a plurality of time constraints, an age of said request, an operating system value indicating whether said product requires an operating system included in a predefined list including a plurality of strategic operating systems, and an opportunity lost value indicating whether an amount of revenue associated with said business opportunity is lost if said request is rejected; determining, by said computing unit, a plurality of component scores for a plurality of variables associated with said customer requirement, wherein said determining comprises evaluating a plurality of formulas that include said plurality of variables, and wherein said evaluating comprises applying a plurality of weights to said plurality of variables in a one-to-one correspondence and substituting said set of prioritization data for said plurality of variables; and automatically determining, by said computing unit, a priority score for prioritizing said customer requirement relative to a plurality of other customer requirements, wherein said automatically determining said priority score comprises determining a sum of said plurality of component scores.