Method and apparatus for determining the product marketability utilizing a percent coverage

US8024218B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP AG · DE

Inventors

• Ashutosh Kumar · San Jose, US
• Stefan Witzens · Schallstadt, DE
• Oswald Wieser · Schwetzingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 23, 2006
• Grant date: Sep 20, 2011
• Expiry date: Jul 21, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/0204
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Determining product marketability may be accomplished by electronically performing various calculations on related data. The marketability may be determined by a processing device receiving business characteristic terms, industry sub-segment terms and validation terms for each business characteristic term of each industry sub-segment. The processing device calculates one or more criteria terms based on the validation terms and thereupon prioritizes the business characteristic terms based on the criteria data to define at least a first cluster of business characteristic terms. The processing device thereupon calculates a coverage percentage term for each of the industry sub-segment terms based on a comparison of the validation terms for each of the business characteristic terms and the validation terms for each business characteristic term in the first cluster. The coverage percentage term usable for determining product marketability.