| 摘要 |
A method and system of optimizing a price of a semi-fungible resource such as a particular hotel room of a given hotel room block by determining a given customer's implied value of characteristics of the specific resource (e.g., specific hotel room). Characteristics of the specific resource may include the view seen from a particular hotel room or restaurant table, how much external noise a hotel room is subjected to, the walking time from a hotel room to restaurants or transportation, or proximity of a restaurant table (i.e., resource) to the kitchen or restroom. A base price of the resource is adjusted based on the determined value of the specific characteristics to the given customer. |
| 主权项 |
1. A method of optimizing a price of a resource, said method comprising:
receiving, at a resource price optimizer, a request from a computing device, said request comprising:
a customer identifier corresponding to a customer of a plurality of customers, anda resource identifier corresponding to the resource; retrieving, from an inventory database, a base price corresponding to the resource identifier, wherein:
the inventory database comprises inventory data for each resource of a plurality of resources, said inventory data comprising a base price for each resource of the plurality of resources, andthe resource is a resource of the plurality of resources such that the inventory data comprises a base price for the resource; retrieving, from a customer relationship management system database, customer relationship management data associated with the customer identifier, wherein the customer relationship management system database comprises customer specific data for each customer of the plurality of customers; determining a second price as a function of the base price and the customer relationship management data associated with the customer identifier; and returning the determined second price to the computing device. |
