INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM
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Abstract
Apparatus, method, program, and recording medium for notifying the probability of bids by other user to a user before the other user makes a bid. An information processing server specifies an alert notification target auction where a prompt decision price has been set, specifies a bid price monitoring target auction where at least one of an item name and an item code of an item exhibited in the alert notification target auction is matched, and notifies an alert to at least one of a bidder who makes a bid at the alert notification target auction where the prompt decision price has been set, and a certain potential bidder who probably makes a bid at the auction, when the highest bid price in the bid price monitoring target auction satisfies the predetermined condition for the reference price according to the prompt decision price set to the alert notification target auction.
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35 Claims
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16. An information processing apparatus comprising:
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at least one memory operable to store program code; at least one processor operable to read said program code and operate as instructed by said program code, said program code including; first specifying code that causes said at least one processor to specify an auction in which a prompt decision price has been set and which has been unfinished, from a storage that stores information on an auction of an exhibited item with respect to each of a plurality of auctions; second specifying code that causes said at least one processor to specify another auction in which at least one of an item name and an item code of the item exhibited in the auction is matched and which has been unfinished, from the storage, the item name and the item code being included in the information on the auction specified by the first specifying code; and notifying code that, when a highest bid price in the other auction specified by the second specifying code satisfies a predetermined condition for a reference price according to the prompt decision price set to the auction specified by the first specifying code, causes said at least one processor to notify an alert to at least one of a bidder who makes a bid at the auction where the prompt decision price is set and a certain potential bidder who probably makes a bid at the auction. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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35. An information processing method, which is performed by a computer,
the information processing method comprising: -
specifying an auction in which a prompt decision price has been set and which has been unfinished, from a storage that stores information on an auction of an exhibited item with respect to each of a plurality of auctions; specifying other auction in which at least one of an item name and an item code of the item exhibited in the auction is matched and which has been unfinished, from the storage, the item name and the item code being included in the information on the auction specified by the first specifying step; and notifying, when a highest bid price in the other auction satisfies a predetermined condition for a reference price according to the prompt decision price set to the auction, an alert to at least one of a bidder who makes a bid at the auction where the prompt decision price is set and a certain potential bidder who probably makes a bid at the auction, wherein at least one of the specifying the auction operation, specifying the other auction operation and the notifying operation is performed by at least one processor.
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Specification