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Participant node for a searchable distributed information network

  • US 7,613,637 B2
  • Filed: 12/19/2004
  • Issued: 11/03/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2004
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A system to create a market for items comprising goods, services, information, or any combination thereof, said system comprising,A) a plurality of participant nodes, each participant node comprising,1. a computer medium,2. a means for a user of the system to enter data into said computer medium;

  • 3. a means for said user of the system to store said data into said computer medium;

    4. a means for said user of the system to display said data entered or stored by said computer medium;

    5. a communication means for said computer medium to communicate with a market creator network and user computers;

    6. a participant node application software stored in said computer medium, said software comprising instructions that, when executed, cause;

    i. a means of said participant node to enable said computer medium to receive and store said data;

    ii. a means of said participant node to enable said computer medium to display said data entered or stored;

    iii. a means of said participant node to enable said computer medium to communicate with said market creator network;

    iv. a means of said participant node to enable said computer medium to create, display, and store in said participant node a full description of an item and furthermore;

    create, display, and store in said market creator network, a token description of said item, andv. a means of said participant node to enable said computer medium to receive and respond to requests from said user computers for said full description of said items;

    vi. said participant node to create said token description by downloading a form from said market creator network and filling in prescribed fields;

    vii. said participant node to upload said token description to said market creator network that presents said token description to users searching said market creator network for said items;

    B) a market creator network comprising,1. at least one server computer medium,2. at least one connection to a global communication network,3. a communication means to communicate with said participant nodes and user computers of said users searching said market creator network for said items;

    4. a means for said participant nodes to list said items;

    5. a means to store said token descriptions entered by participant node users;

    6. a means to search for said items stored in said market creator network;

    7. a means to provide access by said user computers, to said full descriptions of said items, said full descriptions of said items located in one or more said participant nodes;

    8. a means to dynamically create a link that is embedded in each token description returned to said user computer and said user computer is programmed to search for said items on said market creator network, wherein said link embedded in each token description indicates the current network address of the respective participant node;

    9. a means to provide said user computer with access to the full description of at least one of said searched items by disconnecting said user computer from said market creator network and connecting said user computer to the current network address of the respective participant node identified in the token of the selected at least one of said searched items, andC) a global communication network.

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