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Managing negotiations between users of a computer network by automatically engaging in proposed activity using parameters of counterproposal of other user

  • US 6,496,851 B1
  • Filed: 08/04/1999
  • Issued: 12/17/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/04/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A computer-implement method of facilitating interactions between users of a computer network, the method comprising:

  • transmitting a first user'"'"'s proposal for an activity to another user;

    the proposal comprising one or more parameters descriptive of the proposed activity;

    receiving a response from the other user, the response comprising a counterproposal having one or more parameters descriptive of the proposed activity, with at least one of the parameters of the counterproposal differing from a corresponding parameter of the proposal; and

    automatically engaging in the proposed activity using the parameters included in the counterproposal upon acceptance of the counterproposal by the first user.

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