Patent Document ID: 8521578
Application ID: 12372143
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of determining whether to develop products for potential customers, comprising: identifying a plurality of potential products; identifying a plurality of potential customers; assessing an affordability probability of the potential products; assessing a requirability probability of the potential customers; assessing a schedulability probability of the potential customers; assessing a reuse probability of the potential products, wherein the reuse probability is based on: at least one a first product of the plurality of products being implemented by a first customer of the plurality of customers; the affordability probability of the at least one first product; the requirability probability of a second customer of the plurality of customers, wherein the requirability probability of the second customer is the probability that the second customer will require the at least one first product and wherein the requirability probability of the second customer is dependent on the first product being implemented by the first customer; and the schedulability probability of the second customer; assessing salability attributes of the potential products from perspectives of the potential customers to generate attribute assessments; using an input device to enable a user to input said pluralities of potential products and potential customers, as well as the attribute assessments, to a processor; using said processor to determine, for each of the potential products, based on the attribute assessments, all possible implementation combinations in which at least n of the potential customers implement the product, where n is a positive whole number; using the processor to determine the probability of each said implementation combination, for each said product; and using said processor to consider the affordability probability of the potential products, the requirability probability of the potential customers, and the schedulability probability of the potential customers, and the reuse probability of potential customers to assist in determining, based upon the probability determinations, which of the potential products to develop.