Auction system for remote bidding and method
First Claim
1. A system for conducting interactive auctions with remote bidders, the system comprising:
- an auction system operable to maintain information related to a subject of an auction, the auction system establishing a price at which the subject of the auction is offered;
a remote bidder system operable to communicate a bid including bid information to the auction system, the bid accepting the offer for the subject of the auction at the price established by the auction system, the auction system using at least a portion of the bid information to accept the bid where the price for the subject of the auction is the same when the bid is processed by the auction system and to reject the bid where the price for the subject of the auction has changed.
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Abstract
A system for conducting interactive auctions with remote bidders is provided. The system includes an auction system operable to maintain information related to a subject of an auction and a remote bidder system in communication with the auction system. The remote bidder system is operable to communicate a bid including bid information to the auction system based on a price for the subject of the auction. The auction system uses at least a portion of the bid information to accept the bid where the price for the subject of the auction is the same when the bid is processed by the auction system and to reject the bid where the price for the subject of the auction has changed when the bid is processed by the auction system.
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40 Claims
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1. A system for conducting interactive auctions with remote bidders, the system comprising:
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an auction system operable to maintain information related to a subject of an auction, the auction system establishing a price at which the subject of the auction is offered;
a remote bidder system operable to communicate a bid including bid information to the auction system, the bid accepting the offer for the subject of the auction at the price established by the auction system, the auction system using at least a portion of the bid information to accept the bid where the price for the subject of the auction is the same when the bid is processed by the auction system and to reject the bid where the price for the subject of the auction has changed. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method for remote auction bidding, comprising:
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updating an auction system with an auction system current price established by the auction system for a subject of an auction;
communicating the auction system current price to a remote bidder system;
updating a remote bidder system current price with the auction system current price communicated to the remote bidder;
transmitting a message related to the subject of the auction from the remote bidder system to the auction system, the message including a bid offer based on the remote bidder system current price, the bid offer accepting the auction system current price for the subject of the auction;
accepting, by the auction system, the bid offer where a then current price maintained by the auction system for the subject of the auction is the same as the remote bidder system current price; and
rejecting, by the auction system, the bid offer where the then current price maintained by the auction system for the subject of the action is different than the remote bidder system current price. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A method for remote auction bidding, comprising:
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updating an auction system with an auction system current price established by the auction system for a subject of an auction;
communicating the auction system current price to a remote bidder system;
transmitting a message related to the subject of the auction from the remote bidder system to the auction system, the message including a bid offer acknowledging acceptance by the remote bidder system of the auction system current price for the subject of the auction;
accepting, by the auction system, the bid offer where the auction system current price for the subject of the auction has not changed; and
rejecting the bid offer where the auction system current price for the subject of the action has changed. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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35. A system for conducting an auction with remote bidders, the system comprising:
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an auction system operable to maintain information related to a subject of an auction and further operable to communicate in at least one direction information related to the subject of the auction on a first network, a second network, and a third network and operable to broadcast information related to the subject of the auction on at least one of the first network, the second network, and the third network;
a first remote bidder system in communication with the auction system via the first network and operable to communicate a first bid to the auction system including a tag related to a price for the subject of the auction, the auction system using at least the tag to determine whether to accept the first bid; and
a second remote bidder system in communication with the auction system via the second network, the second remote bidder operable to communicate a second bid to the auction system. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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