Virtual marketplace agent technology
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1. A system for automating virtual marketplace transactions, comprising:
- buyer-associated programmable buy-routines based upon mathematical optimization problem solving for submitting bids-to-buy to said virtual marketplace;
seller-associated programmable sell-routines based upon mathematical optimization problem solving for submitting offers-to-sell to said virtual marketplace; and
interconnecting said buy-routines and said sell-routines, programmable clearing-agent routines based upon mathematical optimization problem solving for receiving said bids-to-buy and said offers-to-sell, respectively, for matching bids-to-buy and offers-to-sell in said virtual marketplace, and for communicating results of said matching to respective buy-routines and sell-routines.
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Abstract
A virtual marketplace employing automated agents. Buyer agents and seller agents interface via a market-clearing agent to using a common vocabulary by which the clearing agent can negotiate matches between buyers'"'"' and sellers'"'"' offers represented respectively by the buyer agent and seller agent modeled for a transaction. Mathematical modeling and problem solver technology is employed for each of the agents such that negotiations over a bid-offer transaction can be automatically solved.
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1. A system for automating virtual marketplace transactions, comprising:
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buyer-associated programmable buy-routines based upon mathematical optimization problem solving for submitting bids-to-buy to said virtual marketplace;
seller-associated programmable sell-routines based upon mathematical optimization problem solving for submitting offers-to-sell to said virtual marketplace; and
interconnecting said buy-routines and said sell-routines, programmable clearing-agent routines based upon mathematical optimization problem solving for receiving said bids-to-buy and said offers-to-sell, respectively, for matching bids-to-buy and offers-to-sell in said virtual marketplace, and for communicating results of said matching to respective buy-routines and sell-routines. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A method of conducting business, the method comprising:
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providing computerized links to a virtual marketplace site, said site including an automated clearing agent for mathematical modeling of market clearing functions and for mathematical problem solving routines associated with said market clearing functions;
providing entities linked to the virtual marketplace site with automated buy-sell agent functionality based on mathematical modeling and mathematical problem solving routines associated with developing automated buying agents for creating bid-to-buy objects and automated selling agents for creating offer-to-sell objects wherein said objects are transmitted via said links to said clearing agent and wherein said clearing agent automatically executes said market clearing function therefrom. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23)
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24. A computerized process for business negotiation in a virtual marketplace, the process comprising:
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establishing a virtual marketplace site having a virtual clearing agent residing therein;
submitting anonymous bids to said site via a mathematically modeled virtual buying agents; and
submitting anonymous asks to said site via a mathematically modeled virtual selling agents, wherein said virtual clearing agent is mathematically modeled for market clearing functionality and has mathematically modeled problem solving functionality for matching said bids to said asks. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26)
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27. An executable virtual marketplace model comprising:
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a clearing agent wherein said clearing agent is a mathematical model for optimizing market clearing functions;
linked to said clearing agent, a plurality of buying agents wherein each buying agent is a mathematical model using respective buyer mathematical optimization models for formulating bid objects for submitting to said clearing agent; and
linked to said clearing agent, a plurality of selling agents wherein each selling agent is a mathematical model using respective seller mathematical optimization models for formulating ask objects for submitting to said clearing agent. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30, 31)
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32. A memory device comprising:
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computer code for establishing a virtual marketplace site having a virtual clearing agent residing therein;
computer code for submitting anonymous bids to said site via a mathematically modeled virtual buying agents; and
computer code for submitting anonymous asks to said site via a mathematically modeled virtual selling agent, wherein said virtual clearing agent is mathematically modeled for market clearing functionality and has mathematically modeled problem solving functionality for matching said bids to said asks.
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