Bhakti Vithalani

Method And System For Sales-Credit Assignment Via Time-Based Organization Hierarchies

Application

#2007022 Sep 27, 2007

Filed

Oct 18, 2002

Inventor

Daniel Chang (Belmont, CA) · Alexander Goldstein (Foster City, CA) · Ashish Singhal (Union City, CA) · Pankaj Bhatia (Hayward, CA) · Bhakti Vithalani (Foster City, CA) · Pasan Sirisena (San Mateo, CA) · Steve Apfelberg (Menlo Park, CA) · Marc Verbeek (Foster City, CA) · Tarri Furlong (San Leandro, CA) · Ashley Stirrup (Burlingame, CA) · Ajay Sabhlok (Fremont, CA) · Martin Renaud (San Carlos, CA)

Appl. No.

10/273679

Assignee

Daniel Chang (Belmont, CA) · Alexander Goldstein (Foster City, CA) · Ashish Singhal (Union City, CA) · Pankaj Bhatia (Hayward, CA) · Bhakti Vithalani (Foster City, CA) · Pasan Sirisena (San Mateo, CA) · Steve Apfelberg (Menlo Park, CA) · Marc Verbeek (Foster City, CA) · Tarri Furlong (San Leandro, CA) · Ashley Stirrup (Burlingame, CA) · Ajay Sabhlok (Fremont, CA) · Martin Renaud (San Carlos, CA)

International Classification

G05B 19/418

U.S. Classification

705008000

Abstract

A method, system, and article of manufacture for defining and managing instances of time-based organization hierarchies, and for assigning sales credit to corresponding positions within the time-based organization hierarchy in response to a sales data input are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a user may define and/or manage one or more instances of the time-based organization hierarchy via a user interface generated on a client. Moreover, and in response to the sales data input corresponding to a transaction, a sales credit assignment process may then be executed to assign sales credit to one or more positions within the instance of the time-based organization hierarchy based on an evaluation of conditions specified in one or more identified assignment rules associated with the time-based organization hierarchy.