| US 7,516,090 B2 | ||
| Dynamic attributes | ||
| Sumit Agarwal, Redwood City, Calif. (US) | ||
| Assigned to SAP AG, Walldorf (Germany) | ||
| Filed on Jul. 19, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/623,116. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0015305 A1, Jan. 20, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 17/60 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 705—26 [705/27] | 48 Claims |

| 1. A computer-implemented method of conducting electronic commerce, wherein the method comprises one or more machines executing
instructions stored in machine-readable storage medium to cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
a) in a system configuration phase:
i) receiving dynamic attribute parameters defining an administrator dynamic attribute by which to measure the desirability
of a specific responder for a potential commercial transaction involving a requestor and a responder, the dynamic attribute
parameters including a name and a data type for the administrator dynamic attribute; and
ii) receiving a criterion to automatically determine whether to associate the administrator dynamic attribute with a particular
opportunity object, created later, representing a particular potential commercial transaction involving a requestor and a
responder, wherein, in advance of a specific responder being engaged for the specific potential commercial transaction, one
or more potential responders are to provide input for the requestor to measure the desirability of the one or more potential
responders for the specific potential commercial transaction; and
b) subsequently in a system usage phase:
i) receiving user input from a requestor to generate a new opportunity object for a particular potential commercial transaction
involving the requestor and a responder to be determined after an evaluation process, the user input including opportunity
attribute data for one or more attributes of the particular potential commercial transaction for which the new opportunity
object is being generated;
ii) determining whether the particular potential commercial transaction for which the new opportunity object is being generated
meets the criterion based on the user input opportunity attribute data; and
iii) automatically associating the administrator dynamic attribute with the new opportunity object if the particular potential
commercial transaction for which the new opportunity object is being created meets the criterion.
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