Method, apparatus and article of manufacture for determining the end to a silent auction using a tiered strategy

• US 8,370,212 B2
• Filed: 06/05/2009
• Issued: 02/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BGC Partners Incorporated (BGC Group, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: BGC Partners Incorporated (BGC Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Asher, Joseph M., Lutnick, Howard W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Pond, Robert M.
• Application Number:
  US12/479,161
• Publication Number:
  US 20090248541A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,341 Days
• Field of Search: 705/26, 705/27, 705/37
• US Class Current: 705/26.3
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/08 Auctions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange

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