Auction with interest rate bidding
First Claim
1. A method including:
- receiving, via a computer network, offers from bidders in a bid receiving process to transact a financial instrument, the offers being expressed as offered interest rates at which the respective bidders are willing to transact the financial instrument, the bid receiving process being utilized in a declining auction characterized by reducing a published interest rate at which the financial instrument is being offered for sale, the reducing of the published interest rate being performed automatically and responsive to a lack of bidding activity, the maintaining done at least in part through the use of one or more processors; and
determining whether at least one of the offers satisfies a transaction criterion, the determining done at least in part through the use of one or more processors.
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Abstract
A method, apparatus, system and non-transitory machine-readable medium are provided for declining auctions with interest bidding. According to one embodiment, offers are received from respective bidders in a bid receiving process to transact a financial instrument, the offers being expressed as offered interest rates at which the corresponding respective bidders are willing to transact the financial instrument. The bid receiving process is utilized in a declining auction characterized by a reducing a published interest rate at which the financial instrument is offered for sale. The reducing of the published interest rate is performed automatically and responsive to a lack of bidding activity. Further there is a determining whether at least one of the offers satisfies transaction criterion.
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20 Claims
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1. A method including:
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receiving, via a computer network, offers from bidders in a bid receiving process to transact a financial instrument, the offers being expressed as offered interest rates at which the respective bidders are willing to transact the financial instrument, the bid receiving process being utilized in a declining auction characterized by reducing a published interest rate at which the financial instrument is being offered for sale, the reducing of the published interest rate being performed automatically and responsive to a lack of bidding activity, the maintaining done at least in part through the use of one or more processors; and determining whether at least one of the offers satisfies a transaction criterion, the determining done at least in part through the use of one or more processors. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. An apparatus, comprising:
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a plurality of client computers; and a server computer coupled with the plurality of client computers via a computer network, the server computer is to receive offers in a bid receiving process from respective bidders to transact the financial instrument, the offers are expressed as offered interest rates at which the bidders are willing to transact the financial instrument, the bid receiving process is a declining auction and is characterized by a reduction of a published interest rate at which the financial instrument is offered for sale during the bid receiving process, the reduction of the published interest rate is performed automatically by the server computer responsive to a lack of bidding activity, and the server computer determines whether at least one of the offers satisfies a transaction criterion.
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11. A system, comprising:
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a plurality of first computers; and a second computer coupled to the plurality of first computers over a network, the second computer to receive offers from respective bidders in a bid receiving process to transact the financial instrument, the offers are expressed as offered interest rates at which the bidders are willing to transact the financial instrument, the bid receiving process is a declining auction and is characterized by a reduction of a published interest rate at which the financial instrument is offered for sale, the second computer automatically reduces the published interest rate responsive to a lack of bidding activity, and the second computer determines whether at least one of the offers satisfies a transaction criterion. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A non-transitory machine-readable medium having stored thereon data representing sets of instructions which, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to:
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receive, via a computer network, offers from respective bidders in a bid receiving process to transact a financial instrument, the offers are expressed as offered interest rates at which the bidders are willing to transact the financial instrument, the bid receiving process is a declining auction characterized by a reduction of the published interest rate at which the financial instrument is offered for sale, the reduction of the published interest rate is performed automatically and responsive to a lack of bidding activity; and determine whether at least one of the offers satisfies a transaction criterion.
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