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US 2016/0260168 A1Published application
Method and apparatus for separating disparate manufactured products into commodity and non-commodity components
OwnerRobert M. GRISWOLDinventor
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Abstract
Disparate manufactured electronic products are separated into a commodity component comprising a common, atomic functional value and a non-commodity component. Technical commodities are analyzed for manufactured electronic products, such as different models of disk drives produced by different manufacturers, that have disparate capacity, access times, and form factors, and a common unit of functional value is produced for each product to allow for the purchase and sale of such products as commodities.
Claims10
A computer implemented method, comprising:
- with a processor, analyzing disparate manufactured electronic products to separate said manufactured electronic products into a commodity component comprising a common, atomic functional value and a non-commodity component;
- said processor producing a common unit of functional value for each such product to identify a portion of said products unique to each said product and a commodity portion of each said product;
- said processor establishing an index for said commodity portion of said products by characterizing said products as technical commodities via synthetic price indices;
- and
- said processor applying said index to establish said products as a technical commodity for purchase and sale of said products through any of physical and derivative markets.
2 more elements
A hard disk drive (HDD), comprising:
- a non-commodity component;
- and
- a commodity component, said commodity component having a common, atomic functional value that is established by applying a weighted least-squares linear regression which when graphed has an intercept that is a fixed price of said HDD for a which a commodity price is to be established and that has a slope that is a variable price for the commodity portion of the HDD.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.