System and method facilitating multilateral and bilateral negotiations
First Claim
1. A system facilitating transfer of an asset in a private negotiation following a public negotiation, the system including:
- a transaction controller identifying at least one participant for a private negotiation from a set of participants from a public negotiation in which one or more participants negotiated for purchase of an asset; and
a message generator coupled to the transaction controller, the message generator forwarding a message to the at least one participant for the private negotiation inviting the at least one participant to engage in a private negotiation for the purchase of the asset, the message generator outputting information to the at least one participant representative of at least an identification of the asset, an identification of a party offering the asset, an identification of the at least one participant and a current offer or bid price for the asset, the server outputting the information in response to the transaction controller indicating that the at least one participant will participate in the private negotiation.
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Abstract
Domain names are transferred in a two-stage process. The first stage of the process is a public auction conducted on a web server, with the bidders accessing the auction website over the Internet. When the auction does not result in a transfer of the registration, for example when the auction has a reserve that is not met, the transaction proceeds into a second, private stage. The auction server invites the high bidder from the auction to participate in a first bilateral negotiation, preferably by sending e-mail including the URL for a negotiation website. Should this first private negotiation not result in a transfer, then another bidder from the auction is invited to participate in a second bilateral negotiation. This process continues until a transfer completes successfully or the offering party withdraws the domain name from the market.
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16 Claims
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1. A system facilitating transfer of an asset in a private negotiation following a public negotiation, the system including:
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a transaction controller identifying at least one participant for a private negotiation from a set of participants from a public negotiation in which one or more participants negotiated for purchase of an asset; and
a message generator coupled to the transaction controller, the message generator forwarding a message to the at least one participant for the private negotiation inviting the at least one participant to engage in a private negotiation for the purchase of the asset, the message generator outputting information to the at least one participant representative of at least an identification of the asset, an identification of a party offering the asset, an identification of the at least one participant and a current offer or bid price for the asset, the server outputting the information in response to the transaction controller indicating that the at least one participant will participate in the private negotiation. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A system facilitating transfer of an asset in a sequence including at least one private negotiation following a multilateral negotiation, the system including:
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a first computer adapted to connect through a network to at least one server, the server accessing and serving data representative of a multilateral negotiation for an asset and at least a first state of a first bilateral negotiation for the asset, the first state identifying a seller and a first bidder from the multilateral negotiation to engage in the first bilateral negotiation, the first computer receiving messages directed to the first bidder in the bilateral negotiation, including a first message inviting the first bidder to engage in the first bilateral negotiation, wherein, upon the first bidder initiating the first bilateral negotiation, the first computer receiving the first state of the first bilateral negotiation and generating a first screen illustrating a present state of the first bilateral negotiation. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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