Method and system for facilitating opportunistic transactions
First Claim
1. A system for pricing a secondary market object for a transaction, said system comprising:
- means for inputting parameters from a seller in the transaction identifying an object to be sold, said object being a secondary market object having a dynamic value affected by time-varying external factors;
means for inputting parameters representative of the external factors;
means for estimating a value of the secondary object based on the external factors; and
means for selectively providing the estimate of the value to at least one participants in the transaction.
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Abstract
An automated internet based exchange system is described for controlling the exchanging of ownership interests in objects on a secondary market. The automated exchange includes one or more sub-exchanges for maintaining information representative of secondary market transactions and for controlling said transactions. The automated exchange includes a secondary portfolio auction sub-exchange, a pricing and valuation services sub-exchange, an electronic contract negotiation services sub-exchange and a delivery and auditing service sub-exchange. The automated exchange also includes a logic switch manager that creates opportunistic auctions from a transaction for a product or service so as to trigger further auctions or service sales on the same or different secondary markets.
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27 Claims
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1. A system for pricing a secondary market object for a transaction, said system comprising:
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means for inputting parameters from a seller in the transaction identifying an object to be sold, said object being a secondary market object having a dynamic value affected by time-varying external factors;
means for inputting parameters representative of the external factors;
means for estimating a value of the secondary object based on the external factors; and
means for selectively providing the estimate of the value to at least one participants in the transaction. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. The system of claim 47 further including
means for inputting parameters representative of an object to be purchased from a participant in the auction; - and
means for determining whether there are any objects offered for sale that conform to the parameters. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19)
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20. A method of conducting a transaction to transfer an ownership interest in an object having a dynamic value affected by time-varying external factors in a secondary market object between a seller and at least one purchaser comprising the following steps:
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inputting seller and purchaser parameters specific to the object to be sold;
estimating the value of the secondary object based on the external factors;
selectively providing the estimate of the value of the secondary object to a series of purchasers in the transaction so that the purchaser may take it into account when placing a bid;
receiving bid information from the purchaser;
determining whether the bid information meets seller'"'"'s transaction criteria based on the dynamically priced object; and
finalizing the transaction if the buyers bid information meets seller'"'"'s transaction parameters based on the dynamically priced object.
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21. A system for controlling an auction directed to fulfilling an order for at least one secondary market object, said system comprising:
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means for inputting parameters from a participant in the auction identifying an object to be purchased, said object being a secondary market object having a dynamic value affected by time-varying external factors;
means for inputting parameters representative of the external factors;
means for estimating a value of the secondary object based on the external factors;
means for selectively providing the estimate of the value to participants in the auction; and
means for auctioning the option to sell objects among the participants. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24)
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25. A method of notifying a participant on an exchange of a possible business opportunity comprising the steps of:
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allowing the participant to enter desired portfolio or service information;
parameterizing said information;
transforming said information into an augmented Gelfand-Naimark-Segal (GNS) construction;
inserting said GNS construction into an active auction stream;
detecting whether the GNS construction locates a suitable match; and
alerting the participant when a suitable match is detected
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26. A centralized system for exchanging products or providing related services accessible by a plurality of users over a computer network comprising:
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a user interface module for allowing each user to enter information for desired product or service information;
a Gelfand-Naimark-Segal (GNS) transformation module in communication with said user interface module for transforming the user information for each user into an augmented GNS construction;
a storage module for storing the information of a plurality of products and services provided by the system;
a comparison module in communication with said GNS transformation module and said storage module for comparing the GNS construction for each user to the information contained within said storage module and determining whether the GNS construction parameters match user information within the storage module; and
an alert module in communication with said comparison module to alert the user when said comparison module detects a suitable match.
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27. A system accessible by a plurality of users over a computer network comprising:
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user interface means for allowing each user to enter information for a desired product or service information;
transformation means in communication with said user interface module for transforming the user information for each user into a probe;
a storage module for storing the information of a plurality of products and services provided by the system;
a comparison module in communication with said transformation means and said storage module for comparing the probe for each user to the information contained within said storage module and determining whether the probe matches user information within the storage module; and
an alert module in communication with said comparison module to alert the user when said comparison module detects a suitable match.
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Specification