Method and apparatus for measuring and displaying or reporting a seller's performance
OwnerNoel Leeinventor
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for measuring and displaying or reporting a seller's performance in the sale of accessory goods comprising determining the attachment rate of the goods, determining the average selling price of the goods, and determining the items per transaction and using these values to generate a box-like three-dimensional figure representing the seller's performance.
Claims7
A method for calculating and depicting the shape of a three-dimensional graphical representation of the sales performance data, the method comprising the following steps:
- a. gathering sales data necessary to compute:
- i. an attachment rate, the attachment rate being the proportion of qualifying sales transactions in which at least one accessory product was sold in the same transaction, the qualifying sales transactions including those sales transactions in which a primary product was sold for which a relevant accessory product could have been sold in conjunction therewith;
- ii. an average selling price, the average selling, price being the average of the retail price of all accessory products sold;
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- iii. items per transaction, the items per transaction being the average number of accessory products sold in a transaction in which at least one accessory product was sold with a primary product;
- b. inputting the sales data into a computing apparatus configured to:
- i. calculate the attachment rate, the average selling price, and the items per transaction into a computing apparatus;
- ii. calculate the product of the attachment rate, the average selling price, and the items per transaction, to yield an overall performance score;
- iii. create a graphical representation of a three-dimensional structure having three axes, each axis having a dimension, with the scale of each dimension corresponding to the attachment rate, the average selling price, and the items per transaction, respectively;
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- iv. display to a user the graphical representation of the three-dimensional structure via a display means.
A method for calculating and depicting the shape of a three-dimensional graphical representation of the sales performance data, the method comprising the following steps:
- a. gathering sales data necessary to compute:
- i. an attachment rate, the attachment rate being the proportion of qualifying sales transactions in which at least one accessory product was sold in the same transaction, the qualifying sales transactions including those sales transactions in which a primary product was sold for which a relevant accessory product could have been sold in conjunction therewith;
- ii. an average selling price, the average selling price being the average of the retail price of all accessory products sold;
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- iii. items per transaction, the items per transaction being the average number of accessory products sold in a transaction in which at least one accessory product was sold with a primary product;
- b. inputting the sales data into a computing apparatus configured to:
- i. calculate the attachment rate, the average selling price, and the items per transaction into a computing apparatus;
- ii. calculate the product of the attachment rate, the average selling price, and the items per transaction, to yield an overall performance score;
- iii. create a graphical representation of a three-dimensional structure having three axes, each axis having a dimension, with the scale of each dimension corresponding to the attachment rate, the average selling price, and the items per transaction, respectively;
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- iv. report to a user the graphical representation of the three-dimensional structure via a reporting means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.