Single-period auctions network decentralized trading system and method
First Claim
1. A method for conducting a single-period auction, comprising:
- during a single auction period, receiving, via a computer network, bids submitted by a plurality of offerees to purchase at least one item offered for trade, including an aggregated bid from a first offeree to purchase a desired quantity of the at least one item, wherein the aggregated bid includes;
a first bid to purchase a first quantity of the at least one item, wherein the first bid originates from a first entity to which the first offeree has directly extended credit, and wherein the first entity has directly received an offer for trade of the at least one item from the first offeree; and
a second bid to purchase a second quantity of the at least one item, wherein the second bid originates from a second entity to which the first offeree has not directly extended credit, wherein the second entity has not directly received an offer for trade of the at least one item from the first offeree, wherein the second entity has directly received an offer for trade of the at least one item from an intermediate entity that has directly extended credit to the second entity, and wherein the intermediate entity is not the first offeree; and
after the single auction period concludes, a computer system;
determining a closing price at which an offeror of the at least one item is willing to trade the at least one item, wherein the determining the closing price is based at least in part on the received bids; and
matching two or more bids of the received bids at the determined closing price;
wherein the desired quantity comprises the first quantity and the second quantity.
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Abstract
A method and system serve for network dealing for conducting single-period auctions where there is one seller and at least one buyer, but typically multiple buyers. The method and system allow for posting of at least one or multiple items offered for sale on a network by a computer at the seller interconnected to other computers on the network. Bids are submitted by buyers for the items offered for sale with the seller requiring predetermined information about the buyer submitting bids before determining a selling price. The seller applies a selected set of criteria to strike out bids the seller does not wish to consider and applies a seller determined criteria to determine the price at which the seller is willing to sell the item(s).
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48 Claims
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1. A method for conducting a single-period auction, comprising:
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during a single auction period, receiving, via a computer network, bids submitted by a plurality of offerees to purchase at least one item offered for trade, including an aggregated bid from a first offeree to purchase a desired quantity of the at least one item, wherein the aggregated bid includes; a first bid to purchase a first quantity of the at least one item, wherein the first bid originates from a first entity to which the first offeree has directly extended credit, and wherein the first entity has directly received an offer for trade of the at least one item from the first offeree; and a second bid to purchase a second quantity of the at least one item, wherein the second bid originates from a second entity to which the first offeree has not directly extended credit, wherein the second entity has not directly received an offer for trade of the at least one item from the first offeree, wherein the second entity has directly received an offer for trade of the at least one item from an intermediate entity that has directly extended credit to the second entity, and wherein the intermediate entity is not the first offeree; and after the single auction period concludes, a computer system; determining a closing price at which an offeror of the at least one item is willing to trade the at least one item, wherein the determining the closing price is based at least in part on the received bids; and matching two or more bids of the received bids at the determined closing price; wherein the desired quantity comprises the first quantity and the second quantity. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 42, 43, 48)
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8. A system for conducting a single-period auction, the system comprising:
a first computer system configured to provide, to a plurality of offerees, information relating to an item offered for trade by an offeror, wherein the first computer system includes a processor and a memory storing program instructions executable to cause the computer system to; during a single auction period, receive, via a computer network coupled to the first computer system, bids from ones of the plurality of offerees to buy or sell the item, wherein the plurality of offerees includes a first financial institution, wherein received bids include an aggregated bid from the first financial institution, wherein the aggregated bid includes a plurality of bids, each of which is a bid to buy or sell the item and is from an entity that has been directly extended credit by the first financial institution or by another financial institution, and wherein the plurality of bids of the aggregate bid includes; a first bid originating from a first entity that has directly received an offer to buy or sell the item from the first financial institution; and a second bid originating from a second entity that has not directly received an offer to buy or sell the item from the first financial institution, wherein the second entity has directly received an offer to buy or sell the item from a second financial institution that has directly extended credit to the second entity, wherein the second financial institution is different from the first financial institution; and after the single auction period concludes; apply an offeror-selected set of criteria to determine a closing price at which the offeror is willing to sell the item, wherein the applying the offeror-selected set of criteria to determine the closing price is based at least in part on the received bids; and match two or more of the received bids at the determined closing price. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 44, 45)
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15. A method, comprising:
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conveying an offer to sell one or more items to a plurality of offerees via a computer network in a single-period auction, wherein the offer to sell is from or on behalf of an offeror; during a first time period, receiving two or more bids on the offer to sell from two or more of the plurality of offerees via the computer network, wherein each of the received bids is within one or more stored limits specified by at least one of the following;
the offeror and an obligor for the bidding offeree, wherein the one or more limits for a bidding offeree are indicative of that offeree'"'"'s ability to bid with respect to the offer, and wherein the received bids include a first bid from a first of the plurality of offerees, wherein the first bid is an aggregation of collected bids from a first group of entities to whom the first offeree or an intermediate entity has directly extended credit, wherein each collected bid in the first bid is an offer to buy a specified quantity of the one or more items, and wherein the first group of entities includes a first entity that directly receives the offer from the first offeree and a second entity that directly receives the offer from a first intermediate entity that has directly extended credit to the second entity, wherein the second entity has not directly received an offer from the first offeree, wherein the first offeree has not directly extended credit to the second entity, and wherein the first intermediate entity is not the first offeree; andat the end of the first time period, a computer system matching two or more of the received bids at a computed closing price at which the offeror is willing to sell the one or more items. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 46)
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36. A system, comprising:
one or more computer systems storing program instructions in memory, wherein the program instructions are executable by the one or more computer systems to cause the one or more computer systems to; convey, to two or more offerees via computer network, an offer to trade at least one item, wherein the offer to trade is with an offeror as part of a single-period auction; maintain a set of limits indicative of the ability of each of the two or more offerees to bid; change at least one of the maintained set of limits for a first of the two or more offerees in response to information received from an obligor of the first offeree with respect to the offer; during the single-period auction, receive two or more bids to trade the at least one item from two or more of the offerees, wherein each bid by an offeree is not permitted to exceed the set of maintained limits for that offeree, and wherein the two or more received bids include an aggregated bid received from a second offeree, wherein the aggregated bid includes a plurality of bids to trade the at least one item, wherein the plurality of bids of the aggregated bid includes bids received by the second offeree from a first entity to whom the second offeree has extended credit and from a second entity to whom the second offeree has not directly extended credit, wherein the second entity has not directly received an offer to trade the at least one item from the second offeree, wherein the second entity has directly received an offer to trade the at least one item from an intermediate entity that has directly extended credit to the second entity, and wherein the second entity is not the second offeree; and at the end of the single period auction, match two or more of the received bids at a computed closing price at which the offeror is willing to trade the at least one item. - View Dependent Claims (37, 38, 39, 40, 47)
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41. An apparatus, comprising:
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first means for receiving bids submitted by two or more offerees for an item offered for trade as part of a single-period auction, including an aggregated bid from a first offeree that includes a plurality of bids originating from entities that have been directly extended credit from the first offeree or the other entities, wherein each of the plurality of bids of the aggregated bid is a bid to buy or sell the at least one item, and wherein entities from which the plurality of bids originate include at least one entity that has not directly received an offer to trade the item from the first offeree, wherein the at least one entity has directly received an offer to trade the item from an intermediate entity that has directly extended credit to the at least one entity, and wherein the intermediate entity is not the first offeree; and second means for; determining, based at least in part on the received bids, a closing price at which the offeror is willing to trade the item; and matching two or more of the received bids at the determined closing price.
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