User published auctions in online mediums
AssigneeAuction.com, LLC
InventorRobert Friedman
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Abstract
A method and system is disclosed for user-published interactive widgets for auctions hosted by an auction forum resource. Examples include an auction forum configured to generate a script associated with an auction upon a publisher-request, and to provide the script to be published on the publisher's resource, resulting in an external interactive component displayed on the publisher's resource. Example features may be configured to respond to user inputs submitted from the interactive component. Furthermore, reward logic can be included to issue a reward to the publisher associated with the script request.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method for managing an auction on an auction forum, the method performed by one or more processors and comprising:
- transmitting, over one or more networks, a script to a resource external to the auction forum, the script including instructions that are executable through a corresponding browser of one or more users that access the external resource in order to cause each of the corresponding browsers to directly access the auction hosted on the auction forum, and to provide an interactive component embedded on the external resource that includes real-time content corresponding to the auction from the auction hosted on the auction forum;
- providing, via the interactive component, real-time auction content corresponding to the auction to the one or more users accessing the external resource;
- receiving, via the interactive component, one or more inputs for the auction while the auction is ongoing;
- and
- updating one or more parameters of the auction based at least in part on one or more of the inputs.
A system for managing an auction forum, the system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- a memory resource storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors of the system, cause the system to:
- transmit a script to be published on a resource external to the auction forum, the script including instructions that are executable through a corresponding browser of one or more users that access the external resource in order to cause each of the corresponding browsers to directly access an auction hosted on the auction forum, and to provide an interactive component embedded on the external resource that includes real-time content corresponding to the auction from the auction hosted on the auction forum;
- provide, via the interactive component, real-time auction content corresponding to the auction to the one or more users accessing the external resource;
- receive, via the interactive component, one or more inputs for the auction while the auction is ongoing;
- and
- update one or more parameters of the auction based at least in part on one or more of the inputs.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions for managing an auction forum that, when executed by one or more processors of a system, cause the system to:
- transmit a script to be published on a resource external to the auction forum, the script including instructions that are executable through a corresponding browser of one or more users that access the external resource in order to cause each of the corresponding browsers to directly access an auction hosted on the auction forum, and to provide an interactive component embedded on the external resource that includes real-time content corresponding to the auction from the auction hosted on the auction forum;
- provide, via the interactive component, real-time auction content corresponding to the auction to the one or more users accessing the external resource;
- receive, via the interactive component, one or more inputs for the auction while the auction is ongoing;
- and
- update one or more parameters of the auction based at least in part on one or more of the inputs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.