AUCTION METHODS, AUCTION SYSTEMS AND SERVERS
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Abstract
Auction methods, auction systems and servers which can satisfy requirements other than the price for a client are provided. An auction client selects a desired one from time slide schemes from a terminal, and enters a due date in an associated entry field. For example, a due date advance scheme is a scheme in which a person who offers the soonest possible trading date from a due date is determined as a successful bidder. Also, specific details (paying-in, delivery and so on) on the trading date for a payment or delivery of an article, requested to a partner, are specified. These bid condition data are transmitted to the server through a network, and the server collects participants in a bid on a home page. The server receives trading dates offered from terminals of participants, and determines a participant who offers the trading date that most satisfies the trade due date condition offered by the client as a successful bidder.
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118 Claims
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1-16. -16. (canceled)
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17. An auction method performed via a network, wherein each of bidders offers a time to a successful bid time condition set for bidding off a trade offered by a client, so that the bidders compete with the time to acquire the trade, said method comprising:
- a request procedure in which a server is responsive to an access from a terminal of the client to display a request screen on said terminal to prompt the client to enter request information including a time, and receives said request information from the terminal of the client;
a bid procedure in which said server is responsive to an access from a terminal of a bidder to display a bid screen which presents said successful bid time condition on said terminal to prompt the bidder to enter bid information including a time, and receives said bid information from the terminal of the bidder; and
a bid acceptance procedure in which said server executes bid processing for narrowing down bidders to a successful bidder with the times offered by the bidders in accordance with said successful bid time condition based on said bid information. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 117)
- a request procedure in which a server is responsive to an access from a terminal of the client to display a request screen on said terminal to prompt the client to enter request information including a time, and receives said request information from the terminal of the client;
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31-116. -116. (canceled)
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118-121. -121. (canceled)
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