Methods and systems for market clearance
December 1, 2020. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.Patent ReferencesIdeal electronic negotiations Method and apparatus for a cryptographically assisted commercial network system designed to facilitate buyer-driven conditional purchase offers Market-based control system for controlling object motion with smart matter System for interative, multivariate negotiations over a network Trusted agents for open electronic commerce where the transfer of electronic merchandise or electronic money is provisional until the transaction is finalized System and method for aggregating multiple buyers utilizing conditional purchase offers (CPOS) Distributed adaptive computing Methods and apparatus for brokering transactions Demand aggregation through online buying groups Computer-based auction and sale system InventorsApplicationNo. 09726573 filed on 12/01/2000US Classes:705/37, Trading, matching, or bidding705/1, AUTOMATED ELECTRICAL FINANCIAL OR BUSINESS PRACTICE OR MANAGEMENT ARRANGEMENT705/26, Electronic shopping (e.g., remote ordering)705/35, Finance (e.g., banking, investment or credit)705/80, ELECTRONIC NEGOTIATION700/228, Having particular transport between article handling stations705/65, Including intelligent token (e.g., electronic purse)707/103Y, Object-oriented database structure processing705/10Market analysis, demand forecasting or surveyingExaminersPrimary: Karmis, StefanoAttorney, Agent or FirmInternational ClassG06Q 40/00AbstractIn a marketplace, offers are processed that are intended to be associated with other offers in a pool. The offers specify conditions for acceptance. Improvable offers are received that are capable of being associated with offers having more favorable specifications than initial offers associated with the improvable offers. Nonimprovable offers that have more favorable specifications than initial offers associated with improvable offers are identified. The identified nonimprovable offers are associated with corresponding improvable offers. Straddles, which comprise a set of offers and a limit on the associations, may span multiple pools. Information about the marketplace may be obtained from data generated by the operation of the marketplace.Other References
Field of SearchElectronic shopping (e.g., remote ordering)Presentation of image or description of sales item (e.g., electronic catalog browsing) Trading, matching, or bidding ELECTRONIC NEGOTIATION Finance (e.g., banking, investment or credit) Operations research Market analysis, demand forecasting or surveying AUTOMATED ELECTRICAL FINANCIAL OR BUSINESS PRACTICE OR MANAGEMENT ARRANGEMENT | |
