Pay To Bid Auction System

• US 20120173380A1
• Filed: 03/12/2012
• Published: 07/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Darin Mitchell Gould
• Original Assignee: Darin Mitchell Gould
• Inventors: Gould, Darin Mitchell
• Application Number:
  US13/417,556
• Publication Number:
  US 20120173380A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26.3
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/08 Auctions

Abstract

Methods and systems for conducting electronic auctions. Bidders purchase the chance to bid, the number of times bidding are used as a winning factor. Bidder who has the highest Personal Bid and earliest bid time is selected as winner. Alternatively, Bidder who spend Highest Credit Bid and earliest bid time is selected as winner. A timer is reset to provide a new target time by adding a set number of seconds to the remaining time each time a new bid is placed.

Claims

1. A computer implemented system of using a first computer that performs transaction steps which communicates over the internet to a second computer for an electronic auction system comprising

an electronic server that runs an auction software and conducts auction process electronically wherein a chance-to-bid in an auction is valued and placed for purchase, and an auction participant needs to purchase said Bid to place a bid in said auction, and winning of said auction is determined by an auction rule;

an electronic device electronically connected with said server, and installed with a database which keeps track of said participant'"'"'s bidding history in an account of said participant;

a display device electronically connected with said server, displaying information from said participant'"'"'s account and said auction; and

a timer is reset to provide a new target time by adding a set number of seconds to the remaining time each time a new bid is placed.

2. The electronic auction system of claim 1, wherein the number of seconds added to the target time can range from zero to any higher integer.

3. The electronic auction system of claim 2 wherein the number of seconds added can vary depending on whether the number of seconds remaining is higher, lower or equal to a target time.

4. The electronic auction system of claim 3 wherein here are two or more target times.

5. The electronic auction system of claim 3 wherein the time added to the clock can also change in relation to the number of seconds that have passes since the previous bid.

6. The electronic auction of claim 3 wherein the time added to the clock can vary in relation to a target time as well as vary in relation to the time since the previous bid.

7. The electronic auction of claim 3 wherein the time added to the clock or the target time when a common bid reaches the reserve price or when the timer has dropped to a certain number of seconds for the first time.

8. The electronic auction of claim 1 wherein the participant'"'"'s bidding history includes personal bid, wherein personal bid is the total money cost in the auction for purchasing bid in each round of bidding and a composite bid is obtained by adding the common bid to a participant'"'"'s personal bid or some multiple of the personal bid.

9. The electronic auction of claim 8 wherein the multiple of the personal bid is a fraction of a cent.

10. The electronic auction of claim 1 wherein each participant is subject to a minimum bid frequency wherein a participant cannot place a bid immediately after their own bid but must wait until there are at least two bids by others before bidding again.

11. The electronic auction of claim 10 wherein the minimum bid frequency can change from 1 to 100 when the reserve price has been reached.

12. The electronic auction of claim 11 wherein the auction is a double bid auction which includes multiple items and multiple auction rules are used to determine winners of the items;

wherein a new double bid auction can begin when a certain event occurs or at least one certain condition occur in another ongoing double bid auction.

13. The electronic auction of claim 12 wherein the at least one certain condition that occurs is another ongoing double bid auction is when the other double bid auction pauses or ends.