Multiple criteria buying and selling model

Abstract

A system and method for aggregating demand is provided. At least one seller may sponsor a deal room to aggregate selling goods/services from a plurality of buyers. The demand aggregation system can include a dashboard for allowing the at least one seller to set up DealRooms, price curves, offers, products, customers, and/or customer groups, for example. The dashboard can include a plurality of wizards for configuring such information. The demand aggregation system can also include seller displays for notifying buyers of changes in prices relative to ship dates and times of order. The demand aggregation system can also include a predictive modeling and reporting function. An algorithm is employed to utilize product information to post a probability chart on a product price point.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having embodied thereon instructions executable by a processor to:
 receive product registration data from a merchant associated with selling a good or service, the product registration data including:
 non-price criterions that define characteristics of the good or service, the non-price criterions including information related to the delivery of the good or service, and 
 at least one offer criterion that establishes a value of the good or service; 
   construct an index of offers according to a category of the good or service associated with the product registration data, wherein the index is searchable according to the category or the product registration data; and   receive a search query including:
 at least one of the non-price criterions, 
 a buyer-generated criterion related to a desired good or service, the buyer-generated criterion not provided as a part of the product registration data, and 
 a quality value associated with the merchant, wherein at least one of the non-price criterions, buyer-generated criterion, or quality value received as part of the search query constitute a range; and 
   output search results responsive to the search query.