AUCTION METHODS, AUCTION SYSTEMS AND SERVERS

• US 20090119187A1
• Filed: 01/06/2009
• Published: 05/07/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tadashi Goino
• Original Assignee: Tadashi Goino
• Inventors: Goino, Tadashi
• Granted Patent: US 8,315,910 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26
• 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

Abstract

Auction methods, auction systems and servers which can satisfy requirements other than the price for a client are provided. An auction client selects a desired one from time slide schemes from a terminal, and enters a due date in an associated entry field. For example, a due date advance scheme is a scheme in which a person who offers the soonest possible trading date from a due date is determined as a successful bidder. Also, specific details (paying-in, delivery and so on) on the trading date for a payment or delivery of an article, requested to a partner, are specified. These bid condition data are transmitted to the server through a network, and the server collects participants in a bid on a home page. The server receives trading dates offered from terminals of participants, and determines a participant who offers the trading date that most satisfies the trade due date condition offered by the client as a successful bidder.

Claims

1-16. -16. (canceled)

17. An auction method performed via a network, wherein each of bidders offers a time to a successful bid time condition set for bidding off a trade offered by a client, so that the bidders compete with the time to acquire the trade, said method comprising:

a request procedure in which a server is responsive to an access from a terminal of the client to display a request screen on said terminal to prompt the client to enter request information including a time, and receives said request information from the terminal of the client;

a bid procedure in which said server is responsive to an access from a terminal of a bidder to display a bid screen which presents said successful bid time condition on said terminal to prompt the bidder to enter bid information including a time, and receives said bid information from the terminal of the bidder; and

a bid acceptance procedure in which said server executes bid processing for narrowing down bidders to a successful bidder with the times offered by the bidders in accordance with said successful bid time condition based on said bid information.

18. The auction method according to claim 17, wherein:

in said request procedure, said server prompts an offer of a successful bid time condition on said request screen, and receives request information including said successful bid time condition; and

in said bid acceptance procedure, said server executes the bid processing with said times so as to determine a successful bid priority order in accordance with said successful bid time condition based on said bid information.

19. The auction method according to claim 17, wherein:

said time is a required time such as a waiting time, a moving time or the like, or a due data such as a date, a time or the like after the lapse of said required time, imposed to the client;

in said bid procedure, said server prompts an offer of said required time or due date as said time on said bid screen, and receives bid information including said required time or due date from the terminal of the bidder; and

in said bid acceptance procedure, said server executes said bid processing with said required time or due date based on said bid information.

20. The auction method according to claim 19, wherein:

said required time or due date as said time determines at least one of a waiting time imposed to the client who receives provision of an article or a service until the client receives the provision of the article or the service;

a waiting time imposed to the client who offers an article or a service until the client receives a payment for the article or the service; and

a moving time imposed to the client who receives provision of a service, required for a move to a place at which the client receives the provision of the service.

21. The auction method according to claim 19, wherein:

said required time or due date as said time is a trade required time or a trade due date for determining either a waiting time imposed to the client who receives provision of an article or a service until the client receives the provision of the article or the service or a waiting time imposed to the client who offers an article or a service until the client receives a payment for the article or the service; and

in said bid acceptance procedure, said server executes the bid processing with said trade required time or said trade due date in said bid information.

22. The auction method according to claim 19, wherein:

said required time is a required time necessary for a movement of a person or an object or a transportation of an object between a place specified by a person who receives the provision of the article or the service and a place specified by a person who offers the article or the service, said required time being either a waiting time imposed to the client who receives the provision of the article or the service until the client receives the provision of the article or the service, or a moving time required for a movement to the place at which the client receives the provision of the article or the service, imposed to the client who receives the provision of the article or the service; and

in said bid acceptance procedure, said server executes the bid processing with said required time in said bid information.

23. The auction method according to claim 22, wherein:

said required time is a required time necessary for a movement of a person or an object between a place specified by a person who receives the provision of the service and a place specified by a person who offers the service, said required time being either a waiting time imposed to the client who receives the provision of the service until the client receives the provision of the service, or a moving time required to a movement to a place at which the client receives the provision of the service, imposed to the client who receives the provision of the service.

24. The auction method according to claim 23, wherein:

said required time is a waiting time imposed to the client when the bidder goes to a position specified by the client between a position specified by the client who receives the provision of the service and a position offered by the bidder who offers the service;

in said request procedure, said server prompts the client to offer a position to which the bidder should go, on said request screen, and receives said request information including said position from the terminal of the client;

in said bid procedure, said server prompts the bidder to offer said waiting time or a position required to calculate said waiting time on said bid screen, and receives bid information including said waiting time or said position from the terminal of the bidder; and

in said bid acceptance procedure, said server executes said bid processing with said waiting time under a successful bid time condition that the shorter waiting time is assigned a higher priority, based on said bid information.

25. The auction method according to claim 23, wherein:

said required time is a moving time imposed to the client when the client goes to a position specified by the bidder between a position specified by the client who offers a service and a position offered by the bidder who receives the provision of the service;

in said request procedure, said server prompts the client to offer the position of the client on said request screen, and receives said request information including said position from the terminal of the client;

in said bid procedure, said server prompts the bidder to offer said moving time or a position required to calculate said moving time on said bid screen, and receives bid information including said moving time or position from the terminal of the bidder; and

in said bid acceptance procedure, said server executes said bid processing with said moving time under a successful bid time condition that the shorter moving time is assigned a higher priority, based on said bid information.

26. The auction method according to claim 19, wherein:

the client is a person who receives a service, the bidder is a person who offers the service and is on the move for offering the service, and said required time is a waiting time imposed to the client when the bidder moves from a position on a scheduled moving route at a desired time of the client to a position specified by the client;

in said request procedure, said server prompts the client to offer said position and said desired time on said request screen, and receives said request information including said position and said desired time from the terminal of the client;

in said bid procedure, said server prompts the bidder to offer bid information including a scheduled moving route required to calculate said waiting time on said bid screen, and receives said bid information including said scheduled moving route data from the terminal of the bidder; and

in said bid acceptance procedure, said server uses said respective data including said position, said desired time and said scheduled moving route to calculate a waiting time imposed to the client until the bidder moves from the position at said desired time on said scheduled moving route to a position specified by the client for providing the service, and executes said bid processing with said waiting time under a successful bid time condition that the shorter waiting time is assigned a higher priority.

27. The auction method according to claim 19, wherein:

the client is a person who provides a service and is on the move for providing the service, the bidder is a person who receives the service, and said required time is a moving time imposed to the client when the client moves from a position on a scheduled moving route at a desired time of the bidder to a position specified by the bidder;

in said request procedure, said server prompts the client to offer a scheduled moving route on said request screen, and receives said request information additionally including said scheduled moving route from the terminal of the client;

in said bid procedure, said server prompts the bidder to offer said position and said desired time on said bid screen, and receives said bid information including said position and said desired time from the terminal of the bidder; and

in said bid acceptance procedure, said server uses said respective data including said position, said desired time and said scheduled moving route to calculate a moving time imposed to the client when the client moves from a position at said desired time on said scheduled route to the position specified by the bidder for providing the service, and executes said bid processing with said moving time under a successful bid time condition that the shorter moving time is assigned a higher priority.

28. The auction method according to claim 22, wherein:

in said bid procedure, said server prompts the bidder to offer variation factor information including factors causing variations in said waiting time or said moving time on said bid screen, and receives bid information additionally including said variation factor information from the terminal of the bidder; and

in said bid acceptance procedure, said server corrects said waiting time or said moving time using said variation factor information, and executes said bid processing with said corrected waiting time or moving time.

29. The auction method according to claim 22, wherein:

in said bid acceptance procedure, said server acquires variation factor information of said waiting time or said moving time from the outside through a communication, corrects said waiting time or said moving time using said time variation factor information, and executes said bid processing with said corrected waiting time or moving time.

30. The auction method according to claim 19, wherein:

said service to be traded uses a mobile body when said service is offered, said required time is a waiting time or a moving time imposed to the client when said service provider of the client and the bidder moves to a position offered by the person who receives the service in said mobile body.

117. The auction method according to claim 24, wherein:

said bid information offered by the bidder includes position data of the bidder required for calculating said waiting time or a moving time; and

in said bid acceptance procedure, said server uses position data specified by the client and the position data offered by the bidder to calculate said waiting time or said moving time, and executes said bid processing with said waiting time or said moving time under a successful bid time condition that the shorter waiting time or moving time is more preferred.

31-116. -116. (canceled)

118-121. -121. (canceled)