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Assigning telecommunications services to matchable classes

  • US 6,912,277 B1
  • Filed: 08/05/1999
  • Issued: 06/28/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/29/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of trading telecommunications services, comprising:

  • identifying at least one parameter;

    specifying for that parameter a plurality of values, each value associated with a particular class of service;

    receiving from a seller an offer to sell a telecommunications service;

    assigning the offered telecommunications service to a class on the basis of the asserted value of that parameter in the offered telecommunications service;

    receiving from a buyer an offer to purchase a required telecommunications service;

    assigning the required telecommunications service to a class;

    matching the offer to sell to the offer to buy when the offered telecommunications service is the same class as the required telecommunications service;

    brokering a transaction that effects a transfer of ownership of the offered telecommunications service from the seller to the buyer.

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