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Automated auction protocol processor

  • US 5,905,974 A
  • Filed: 12/13/1996
  • Issued: 05/18/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/13/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In combination in a data processing system for implementing a structured trading environment for transacting the purchase and sale of select items having a predetermined set of characteristics wherein said data processing system is operated by a plurality of trading participants through a specific communication platform to permit exchanging positions regarding offers and bids and for receiving select participant trade commands relating to said items, comprising:

  • a plurality of workstations comprising a display means for presenting to a participant information about pending market conditions as they relate to said items being traded and the select positions taken by other participants in regard to said items;

    a central server in communication with said workstations, linked to said workstations and programmed to support a predetermined trading control logic wherein said trading control logic comprises a protocol of trade sequences initiated from a bid/offer state by a participant hit or lift trade command wherein said protocol is directed to implement trade commands from said participants in a predefined way corresponding to the development of a plurality of trade specific states defining the ability of various participants to participate in said trading activity.

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