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7711598 Web-based consumer product marketing communication network for managing and delivering consumer product marketing communications to consumers along e-commerce (EC) enabled web sites on the world wide web (WWW), using multi-mode virtual kiosks (MMVKS) driven by server=side components embodying consumer product identifiers and driven by consumer product information (CPI) links managed by product manufacturer team members and/or their agents  
A Web-based consumer product marketing communication network for managing and delivering consumer product marketing communications to consumers along E-Commerce (EC) enabled Web sites on the World...
7702540 Computer-implement method and system for conducting auctions on the internet  
Methods and apparatus for a system for facilitating electronic commerce transactions with a first data storage location for holding information about an item for auction from a first participant in...
7702564 Determining a demand function for an item  
An embodiment in accordance with the present invention provides a method for determining a demand function for an item. For example, the method includes determining a first estimate of the demand...
7703017 Program display method, program display apparatus, and program delivery and display system  
A template file defines a video material data, a first still picture material data, a second still picture material data and text data, and a display area for each of the material data. A...
7698171 Methods and system for facilitating bids for placement of offers in an alternative payment platform  
Methods and systems are provided for facilitating bidding for placement of alternate offers in an alternative payment platform, including methods and systems for providing a platform for presenting...
7693747 Methods, system, and medium for initiating an online auction utilizing a line item detail report  
A system and method of initiating an online auction. The system receives a request to acquire at least one line item using the online auction from a buyer and presents a data collection template to...
7693755 Auction program with auctioneer character figure, closeout countdown and bid paddle displays  
The computerized auction couples with bidder computers and an auction clearinghouse computer displaying data for the auction goods. The clearinghouse computer accepts bids, sorts bids by value,...
7689435 Method and apparatus for creating and managing complex business processes  
A method and apparatus are disclosed for managing composite business processes that include multiple trading mechanisms, such as requests for quotes (RFQs), auctions and contracts, or repeat passes...
7689458 Systems and methods for determining bid value for content items to be placed on a rendered page  
Systems and methods for determining the value of bids placed by content providers for placement positions on a page, e.g., a web page, rendered according to a given context, for instance, the...
7676399 Method, apparatus and program for quantitative competition and recording medium having recorded thereon the program  
Numbers 1, 2, . . . , M are assigned to bidding prices from the minimum to maximum values V1 to VN. For a bidding value Vvi each user 11-i generates two sequences of information si={si,1, si,2, . ....
7676397 Method and system for predicting the outcome of an online auction  
A method and related system for predicting, possibly a software program executing on a computer system, an online auction outcome for each of a plurality of feedback rules.
7664682 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...
7664677 Integration of remote bidders into multiple and simultaneous live auctions  
Multiple simultaneous auctions can be monitored and participated in using a single bidding device operated by a single remote bidder. A multi-windowed environment allows for the display of active...
7664680 Method and apparatus for creating contextual 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....
7657461 Systems for selecting a group of bidders for a current bidding event using prioritization  
A method and system for selecting potential bidders or suppliers for a current electronic auction by using quantitative models to create a prioritized list of potential suppliers. A prioritization...
7653575 Auction negotiation support systems and methods  
Methods for auction negotiation support executed by a negotiator agent module are provided. The best bid corresponding to a product/service and a total number of negotiator agent modules placing...
7647271 System and method for commodity valuation based on online auction bid information  
A system for determining latent demand for at least one of a plurality of commodities includes an offer analyzer and a commodity selector. The offer analyzer analyzes at least a plurality of...
7647249 Method for providing a shipping label via an intermediary's website  
A system and method in which a buyer registers for a buyer's shipping account and uses the shipping account to pay shipping costs associated with purchases made over the Internet. When a buyer...
7640191 Clustered bidding and auctions in a procurement system  
A purchase hub system for an enterprise may enable a purchasing agent to cluster bids from different enterprise buyer systems in the enterprise. The purchase hub system may receive purchasing...
7640189 Combinatorial auction branch on bid searching method and apparatus  
In a multi-unit combinatorial auction, reverse auction, or exchange, a number of bids can be received, with each bid including one or more items and for each item a desired quantity thereof. Each...
7636673 Human resource auction system, human resource auction server, subscriber management server, license organization server, and application program  
A job seeker accesses a human resource auction site from his/her mobile telephone and registers his/her personal information therein ((1)). The human resource auction site obtains the job seeker's...
7636675 Optimized auction commodity distribution system, method, and computer program product  
A commodity product distribution plan is used to instruct source sites as to how commodity products are to be distributed among target sites. Where the commodity products are to be sold at auction,...
7634430 System and method for allocating resources in a distributed computational system using proportional share auctions  
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a system and method for allocating resources in a distributed computational system. Embodiments of the present invention may comprise a plurality of...
7630920 Electronic bidding method for receiving a bidding form from a bidder for a supplied item via a virtual server secured until a bidding due date  
In an electronic bidding method used by a bidder to bid for a bid item supplied on a network, a virtual server is generated for each newly supplied bid item when a supplier makes an entry of the...
7627510 System and method for conducting combinatorial exchanges  
A double-sided exchange may be an exchange wherein both buyers and sellers provide bids for matching via the exchange. A first interface receives buy bids from buyers and a second interface...
7627514 Method and system for selecting an optimal auction format  
An automated estimation and optimization solution for selecting the best auction format by determining the latent elements of the auction environment taking into account the strategic and...
7627500 Method and system for verifying quantities for enhanced network-based auctions  
A system and method are provided for checking product availability for a listing on a network-based auction service using a separate auction application where an available quantity is determined...
7627515 Price determination for items of low demand  
A computer-implemented system that facilitates establishing price(s) associated with items comprises a clustering component that clusters a collection of non-identical items into one or more sets...
7620572 Identifying items relevant to a current query based on items accessed in connection with similar queries  
The present invention provides a software facility for identifying the items most relevant to a current query based on items selected in connection with similar queries. In preferred embodiments of...
7617111 System and method for processing gasoline price data in a networked environment  
A system and method for processing gasoline price data in a networked environment are provided. A traffic data processing server obtains gasoline price data indicative of user purchases. The...
7613633 Method for facilitating commerce at an internet-based auction  
A method for facilitating commerce at an internet-based auction is disclosed. The method includes authorizing a first participant to post an item for auction at an internet auction site. A...
7610233 System, method and article of manufacture for initiation of bidding in a virtual trade financial environment  
A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for initiating bidding in a virtual trade financial environment. First, a form is submitted to a plurality of buyers providing details on...
7610217 Automatic auction method and system on server-client system  
In 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...
7603295 Method for acquiring rights to lease a drilling rig  
A method for acquiring rights to lease a drilling rig using client devices with secure information and qualifications bulletin boards is disclosed. The method authenticates a leassee of a drilling...
7593884 Multi-currency marketplace  
A computerized method and system buying and selling in a marketplace denominated in multiple currencies. A best bid or best offer can be determined according to pecuniary advantage based upon a...
7593866 Introducing a fixed-price transaction mechanism in conjunction with an auction transaction mechanism  
An auction price-setting method to present an auction price-setting process and a fixed price process to provide a fixed price offer for an item and to publish the fixed price offer on a listing...
7590586 Method of and system for auctioning off commercial frames for on-air content and method of and system for automatically sending on-air content  
A method of and system for auctioning off commercial (CM) frame for on-air content and a method of and system for automatically sending on-air content. A broadcast station presents as an auctioneer...
7587340 Method and apparatus for selling with short-bidding on goods  
A method and software apparatus for a short-bidding auction manager is disclosed. One embodiment allows potential buyers to submit short-bids, so named because they fall short of an auction...
7584123 Systems for dynamically allocating finite or unique resources  
The present invention is related to electronically allocating finite or limited resources. In an embodiment, a computer system is configured to receive bids over a network from a first plurality of...
7580870 Method and system for providing auctions to win with a lowest bid  
Techniques for generating revenues from a bidding process that announces a winning bid that is lowest but unique among all bidders are disclosed. Opposite from a traditional auction in which the...
7577582 Methods and apparatus for facilitating transactions  
Methods and apparatus are described for facilitating transactions in a wide area network. Information relating to a transaction between a first party and a second party is provided to a third party...
7577584 Double auctions with bargaining  
Methods for double auctions that permit bargaining between buyers and sellers as part of the price determination process may be implemented using a computer network connecting the buyers and...
7577606 System and method for managing tier-priced commodities transactions  
Methods and systems for managing the sale of a tier-priced commodity are described. Risk is managed by bundling with the commodity at the lower tier a financial instrument designed to indemnify...
7577589 Method and apparatus for conducting a dynamic exchange  
In a combinatorial exchange, a set of rules can be input for processing of bids received in connection with the exchange. At least one bid can be received from each of a plurality of exchange...
7571120 Computer implemented method for estimating future grid job costs by classifying grid jobs and storing results of processing grid job microcosms  
A client side agent estimates future grid job costs by comparing a current grid job of a particular classification with a history of stored costs for other grid jobs of that customer of that...
7571106 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...
7562034 Electronic silent auction system and method  
An electronic silent auctioning system comprising a first local client, a second local client, and a local network device. The network device is operable to receive one or more unique bids on an...
7562035 Automating responses by grid providers to bid requests indicating criteria for a grid job  
A bid controller grid service of a grid provider receives a job request from a client for processing a job within a grid environment of the grid provider, wherein the job request specifies at a...
7558745 Method of and system for enabling and managing sub-contracting entities  
A method of facilitating a project bid process includes generating a buyer-associated bid request utilizing at least a portion of bid item selections of a stored bid item list, transmitting the...
7555445 Network auction system and method  
The present invention provides a computerized system and methods for conducting on-line auctions. One or more concurrent auctions for one or more lots of products or services may be conducted. A...