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8180684 |
System and method for selling wellhead production assets
A system for selling wellhead production assets is provided. The system includes a bid request system that displays one or more bidders, such as approved oil refinery operators, and receives one or...
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8180685 |
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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8170924 |
Real time auction with end game
A real time auction system operates in a non real time mode, and an end game mode in which the users are placed in a forum. In both modes the users are capable of placing bids along with times when...
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8165921 |
Dynamic exchange method and apparatus
In a live, expressive combinatorial exchange, each of plural bidders can submit a bid. Based on the submitted bids, an allocation of the bids is determined that is optimal for the type of exchange...
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8160932 |
Artwork-trading system and artwork-trading program for trading artworks created by artist over network
An artwork-trading computer system includes a primary auction for trading an artwork put up by an artist for the first time and a secondary auction for the following reselling. A server judges...
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8160933 |
Method and system to automate payment for a commerce transaction
A method and system to automate payment for a network-based commerce transaction provide a buyer an option to enable an automatic payment service, wherein automatic payment service automatically...
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8156011 |
Cenotaph facility and method including auctioning of items associated with honoree
A cenotaph memorial facility comprising a plurality of walls containing crypts is dedicated to an honoree who is not interred within the facility. The facility may comprise a large external...
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8156010 |
Multimodal context marketplace
A method and system for trading of rights to associate information services with multimodal contexts is described. Also described are methods for associating financial transactions with trading of...
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8156001 |
Facilitating bidding on images
Techniques are described for facilitating bidding on images. The techniques may include receiving bids includes presenting a first image and a bid associated with the first image. The first image...
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8140424 |
Method and system to implement seller authorized buying privileges within a network-based shopping facility
A method that commences by receiving a bid for a particular sales listing from a first bidder that is not pre-approved to bid on the particular sales listing. The method continues by restricting...
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8135626 |
Bid gateway architecture for an online advertisement bidding system
An online advertising system integrates third party agents to permit the third party agents to participate in auctions to bid on a per opportunity basis. An advertising exchange module receives...
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8135650 |
Method and apparatus for a cryptographically assisted commercial network system designed to facilitate buyer-driven conditional purchase offers
The present invention is a method and apparatus for effectuating bilateral buyer-driven commerce. The present invention allows prospective buyers of goods and services to communicate a binding...
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8135625 |
Electronic data processing system for internet auctions
The invention relates to an electronic data processing system for conducting auctions over a data network. A component of the system consists of an auction server, which is connected to the data...
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8131598 |
System and method of selecting freight forwarding companies
A system and method for selecting freight forwarding companies are provided wherein bids for shipping lanes and the like are received well in advance of a freight move. Bids are submitted on...
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8126799 |
Method of bidding to drive competition in an auction
A method of bidding to drive competition in an auction, including receiving a plurality of bids from a plurality of bidders, distinguishing the bidders according to a subset of a parameter,...
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8116916 |
Homogeneity based diversity prediction method for transformer selection
A method, system, and computer program product for selecting a transformer size for an industrial or commercial facility. A plurality of end-use connected load data for the facility is entered via...
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8117074 |
Scaling offers for elemental biddable resources (EBRs)
This invention describes the use of a Chip Conversion Factor (CCF) to scale offers for EBRs. The CCFs are a multiplier that will be applied to offers received for the EBRs. In general, the CCF can...
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8117060 |
Geographic demand distribution and forecast
A computerized method and a system for providing geographic demand distribution and forecast are provided. Example embodiments may include receiving a criterion to identify an item and searching a...
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8117083 |
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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8112320 |
Multi-attribute web content auctions
Embodiments may provide for multi-attribute auctioning. Bids and offers which comprise non-price attributes may be received by an auction service, such as web content bids and offers for space on...
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8108265 |
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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8108277 |
Sales system with buyer price selection
A networked sales method is disclosed that includes presenting price choices to a user for an item on a sales screen via a network. Available supply and sales activity level information about...
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8108264 |
Target price sale apparatus and method
A method and apparatus allows offering and selling items based on a non-public target price. The target price is initially established in advance for a given item and is not known to potential...
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8099331 |
Method of facilitating value-based bartering over the internet
A method, apparatus, and system of facilitating value-based bartering over the internet are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system of e-commerce includes a computer network, a server to host a...
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8095429 |
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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8095428 |
Method, system, and medium for winning bid evaluation in an auction
An internal auction system may allow a seller to enter a scheduled auction. The scheduled auction may be a simple scheduled auction and a conditional scheduled auction. The internal auction system...
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8095449 |
Method and system for generating an auction using a product catalog in an integrated internal auction system
A seller may use an existing product catalog in a seller business information management system to generate an auction and populate auction parameters to expedite and facilitate the auction...
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8095401 |
Bounce back method, system and apparatus
A customer whose conditional purchase offer (CPO) has been accepted may receive a bounce back offer from a vendor (supplier-partner) of other services or products. The bounce back process...
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8090623 |
Method and system for conducting an auction over a network
A method and system for enabling a user or bidder to purchase an option on auction merchandise or services in an online auction are provided, thus allowing the option winner to purchase the...
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8088001 |
Casino gaming exchange market
In a cashless gaming environment, a gaming patron has accounts and may accumulate winnings as well as different types of awards. Methods for efficiently exchanging the awards are disclosed. A...
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8086499 |
Method and system for conducting an auction having a plurality of online bidders and site bidder
A method, system, server processing system and/or computer program product of conducting an auction having an online bidder and a site bidder, wherein a server processing system is in communication...
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8086653 |
Conditional purchase offer management system
A conditional purchase offer (CPO) management system is disclosed for receiving CPOs from one or more customers, such as airline passengers, and for evaluating the received CPOs against a number of...
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8082184 |
Consumer driven price marketplace
An online marketplace is established where sellers compete by offering to sell a mass quantity of a specific product, referenced by a unique product ID. A successful sale is determined at a time...
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8073745 |
Auction variation
A method of marketing items comprising: publicizing an auction to sell at least one item, accepting a preset number of price bids for the items, applying at least one cancellation rule to...
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8069090 |
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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8065194 |
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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8065193 |
Method for making money on the internet
A method for making an online posted comment more conspicuous relative to other online posted comments. The method can include the steps of publishing internet content online by an internet content...
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8050978 |
Method and system for an electronic marketplace for information products
In one embodiment, a method for an electronic auction transaction includes organizing by a computer each of a plurality of task requests into one or more respective groups. Each task request...
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8050982 |
Systems and methods for transacting business over a global communications network such as the internet
A business process is described for conducting business transactions over the Internet, allowing buyers an opportunity to reduce the price of a product/service based on the buyer's performance...
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8046294 |
Bidding in online auctions
The invention is directed to systems, methods, and an apparatus for bidding in online auctions. Bids for advertising include an amount that is a function of an expected value-per-click and a...
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8046269 |
Auction based procurement system
A method and system for performing an auction by determining a request for an item based on at least one of (i) an item to purchase, (ii) a performance specification of the item to purchase, and...
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8041621 |
Automated ticket selling system having a maximum price setting
According to the present invention, a buyer may submit a listing containing a description of an item desired to be purchased, such as an airline ticket, to an operator of an automated selling...
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8041599 |
Method, system, and program product for selecting a brokering method for obtaining desired service level characteristics
Under the present invention, a set (e.g., one or more) of requests (e.g., from a single bidder or multiple bidders) for an elemental bidding resource (EBR) is received. Market conditions for the...
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8036949 |
Real-time, interactive, competitive method of on-line auction utilizing an auctioneer
The present inventive device provides a new method of real-time, interactive, competitive, live on-line auction using an animated auctioneer. The animated auctioneer initiates the auction, actively...
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8027879 |
Exclusivity bidding for mobile sponsored content
In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for receiving a bid for an exclusive sponsored content item to be presented on a mobile communication facility, the bid including...
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8027880 |
Acquisition option in auction configuration
A configuration is configured to allow purchase of an item available in an auction. The configuration transmits to a bidder a plurality of bids for use in an auction. Each bid is given a...
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8024274 |
Practical secrecy-preserving, verifiably correct and trustworthy auctions
A system and method for conducting verifiably correct auctions that preserves the secrecy of the bids while providing for verifiable correctness and trustworthiness of the auction is disclosed....
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8024228 |
Concealed performance bid
System(s) and method(s) for offering one or more items, for sale or for purchase, for a specified period of time during which participants bid to purchase or sell the items. The system provides...
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8019666 |
Auction method and apparatus
An automatic system for determining outcomes to an auction process represents the auction by a directed graph and uses a K best solutions algorithm to determine the K best solutions. The system...
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8015073 |
Increasing market efficiency of ticket supply systems
The present invention describes a configurable risk-driven contracting service for limited capacity advanced-scheduled events for which tickets are sold. In the invention, multiple batches of...
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