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7937291 |
Providing an announcement about transactions of a target merchant to a consumer
An announcement distributor distributes, or auctions an opportunity to distribute, an announcement to an announcement recipient such as a consumer, issuer, merchant, or acquirer within a payment...
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7930237 |
Method and system for improved online auction
Methods and systems for improving auction-based online commerce are provided, including methods and systems for facilitating advance, rapid, accurate estimation of shipping costs between a seller...
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RE42300 |
Method for providing vehicle information at a live auction
Detailed information about a particular used motor vehicle is quickly provided to a potential buyer having a personal digital assistant equipped with a receiving means. To provide the information,...
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7917405 |
Method of direct-to-consumer reverse logistics
A method of reverse logistics using an auction to sell products directly to consumers from a store instead of using a third party reclamation company. One or more methods of auctioning one or more...
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7908180 |
Interactive vehicle auction and sale system
An online automobile auction, which allows the consumer to participate by using their home or portable computers and accessing the system via an Internet connection. Before the designated time for...
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7904343 |
Systems and methods that facilitate participation in online auctions via an intermediary web site
Systems, methods and computer program products are provided that can allow users to obtain information about, and participate in, auctions being conducted at a plurality of on-line auction sites. A...
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7904347 |
Systems and methods for conducting an auction
A method includes receiving, prior to a first time, a first signal indicating that a first user is initiating an auction for an item. A second signal indicating that a second user has purchased a...
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7899711 |
Computer-implemented method for estimating bidder valuation
A computer-implemented method for estimating bidder valuation. A probability that a bid of a first bidder in an auction is not greater than a first value is determined, wherein a second bidder has...
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7899715 |
Lead marketplace system and method with ping campaigns
A lead marketplace system and method are provided. The lead marketplace system and method provides an auction for leads.
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7895087 |
Method and system for providing an on-line auction
Methods and systems for providing an on-line auction are disclosed. Online auctions are popular methods of buying and selling items. Some of these auctions relate to “Dutch Auctions,” where the sub...
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7881983 |
Method and apparatus for creating contextualized auction feeds
A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for generating contextualized live auction feeds. The method of generating contextualized live auction feeds comprises receiving context data from a user....
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7877298 |
Method and system for similar auction identification
Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to the identification of a set of auctions which are similar, or relevant, to a contemplated or model auction. In one embodiment, the similar auction...
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7877293 |
User context based distributed self service system for service enhanced resource delivery
Disclosed is a method and system of providing user context-based services over computer networks, using mechanisms for collecting and specifying one or more user context elements, each element...
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7873562 |
Methods and machine readable mediums to enable a fixed price purchase within an online auction environment
A method of allowing a seller in an auction facility to offer buyers the option of buying an offering at a pre-auction seller determined price or using a regular auction process. If a buyer is...
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7873545 |
Selecting prospective bidders to whom to promote an online auction based upon bidding history
A facility for identifying users to whom to promote a selected auction is described. The facility maintains a representation of bidding histories of a plurality of users. At a point at which...
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7870054 |
Method, apparatus and system for advancing a bidder to a selected rank
The present invention provides a method for advancing a first bidder to a selected rank in an electronic auction. This method includes calculating, in response to actuation of a bid rank...
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7870058 |
Dual purchase process within an online auction environment
Methods are provided for a dual purchase process. The method includes enabling, via a first computer system, both an auction purchase process and a fixed-price purchase process for purchase of an...
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7870037 |
Method for graphically presenting auction information
A method for graphically presenting auction information. Characteristics of an auction for an item are received, wherein the characteristics comprise a target price for the item and a close time of...
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7870053 |
Apparatus and methods for auctioning time and desktop space to product and service suppliers
Apparatus and methods for auctioning time and desktop space to product and service suppliers are provided. The apparatus and methods obtain bids from various product and service suppliers and...
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7870030 |
Method and system for managing invitations to bid
A system and method for managing the drafting, submission, and evaluation of invitations to bid for the delivery of one or more products and/or services. An archival database of performance...
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7870034 |
Method and apparatus for multiple variable bidding in an online auction
A method and apparatus for automatically updating the value of a bid variable or the total bid for a multi-variable bid in an online auction is disclosed. The method includes displaying an...
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7870050 |
System and method for an efficient dynamic multi-unit auction
The present invention implements an auction in which multiple types of goods may be auctioned in a dynamic process. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention is a system and method for a...
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7865406 |
Methods and systems for electronic commerce facility client-based presentation offer management
A method, system and computer readable medium for facilitating interactive electronic commerce transactions over an electronic commerce network between a plurality of sellers and a plurality of...
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7860749 |
Method, medium and system for customizable homepages for network-based auctions
A system and method is provided for interfacing with a network-based auction service. The method includes providing a user login adapted to limit access to information about a user-managed auction...
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7860754 |
System and method for optimizing the reserve price and allocation of web page placements in an online keyword auction using generalized trade reduction
An improved system and method is provided for optimizing the reserve price and allocation of web page placements in an online keyword auction using generalized trade reduction. To do so, a...
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7853484 |
Method and system for an auction based on reducing BID
The present invention provides an auction method and system, that is, a seller proposes an expected selling price of an item in a tender offered by the seller and the item is announced and bid on...
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7853482 |
Complex prices in bidding
Managing bid pricing information comprises receiving transaction information and item data from a buyer, generating a bid invitation containing entries relating to the transaction information and...
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7853486 |
Method and system to adjust a seller fixed price offer
Methods and systems including an auction method including an auction price-setting process and a fixed price process for purchasing a seller's offering to a buyer. The seller may adjust a seller...
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7848963 |
Automatic auction method and system on server-client system
An automatic auction method which makes it unnecessary for bidders to stay before auction terminals at the time of auction and which makes possible auction transactions on an open network on which...
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7848958 |
Method for conducting an on-line bidding session with bid pooling
The invention presents a method for conducting an on-line bidding session to accumulate a collective bid for a property. The bidding session is conducted over a computer network that includes a...
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7840440 |
Computerized transaction bargaining system and method
A method and system for automated bargaining by testing non-equal values in rounds for satisfaction of a condition. If the condition is not satisfied in the normal rounds, power round values may be...
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7835944 |
Auction method for real-time displaying bid ranking
Disclosed herein is a real-time auction method that is based on an auction server for performing a process of an auction and wired and wireless terminals of participants. The method includes the...
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7831480 |
Computerized transaction bargaining system
A method and system for automated bargaining is disclosed. The method and system are used in testing non-equal values in normal rounds for satisfaction of a condition. If the condition is not...
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7831477 |
Method for reposting a good for sale using a consignment node
A method and apparatus for creating a computerized market for used and collectible goods by allowing the electronic present of goods from one market to another in a trusted network, allowing the...
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7831479 |
Method and program product for conducting an electronic auction including the automatic extension of auction end time
A method of extending the closing point in a timed on-line auction. The method establishes a fixed closing time for the on-line auction. The system then monitors for the placement of a bid within a...
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7809610 |
Methods and apparatus for freshness and completeness of information
A system that facilitates publishing and consuming information that is of time sensitivity, for example, price information. Methods are employed to achieve completeness and freshness in information...
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7801768 |
Budget-dependent pseudo bid in auction
In auctioning items, pseudo bids are determined based on the bid price and auction budget submitted by a bidder. The bid associated with the highest pseudo bid is identified as the winning bid. A...
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7792707 |
Method and system for controlling the initiation and duration of overtime interval in electronic auctions
Control of overtime in an auction is disclosed. A first time interval, a second time interval, and a first closing time for a first lot are defined. It is determined that at least one new bid for...
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7778882 |
Method, system and apparatus for automatic real-time iterative commercial transactions over the internet in a multiple-buyer, multiple-seller marketplace, optimizing both buyer and seller needs based upon the dynamics of market conditions
A method of communications network shopping by buyers of products and services for purchasing such from sellers in which buyers request an automatic reverse auctioneer or auction controller to...
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7769640 |
Strategies for online marketplace sales channels
In an online marketplace environment, a connection provider can provide various strategies to a seller of items on one or more online sales channels. In one implementation, a method for selling one...
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7747470 |
System and method to improve manufacturing
A system and related method for the rapid response to one or more product fabrication bid requests. The system includes a translation function for translating received product information into...
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7739154 |
Method and system for dynamically extending the duration of an auction
This is a method for use in conducting online and/or proxy-based auctions. This method achieves the best possible price in a timely manner, by more closely simulating the mechanics of a...
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7739155 |
Automatically distributing a bid request for a grid job to multiple grid providers and analyzing responses to select a winning grid provider
A method, system, and program for automatically distributing a bid request for a grid job to multiple grid providers and analyzing responses to select a winning grid provider are provided. A user...
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7734505 |
Method and system for implementing automatic auction extensions and adjustable bid increments in an electronic exchange
A method for automatic auction extension and user controlled standardized bid increment/decrement. The method is implemented in an electronic commerce exchange. The auction method implements...
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7729950 |
Method and system for auctioning assets and valuing same
A method and system for conducting, managing and executing over a communication network, an auction of claims or assets to buyers having expressed interest in purchasing claims or assets is...
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7729953 |
Acquisition of online auction items through a global positioning system
In an example embodiment, a method is provided. The method may comprise receiving an auction item identifier from a global positioning system (GPS) apparatus. Auction data associated with the...
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7720809 |
Application integration using XML
A method and system for integrating form data in an ERP system with a target application are provided. The method includes receiving a first input from a user of an ERP system while a form is...
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7720719 |
Method and system for IMPS-based transient objects
By utilizing IMPS technology and transient objects or object identifiers, a method and system can notify registered participants of changes in the status of those transient objects. One use of such...
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7716090 |
Integrated on-line and on-site auctioning system including audio and/or video capabilities
A remote bidding supplement for traditional-style live auctions, comprising an audio/video system for streaming instantaneous and buffer-free live audio and video data from a live auction site to...
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7711608 |
Auction system
An auction system for use in auctions is provided. In the auction system, a recording medium is attached to an auction item. An auction participant reads information about the auction item out of...
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