US 2002/0120556 A1 · Auction system using network and auction program as well as storage medium on which program is stored · patentgrep

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Abstract

The invention provides an auction system by which reduction of the charge for delivery of a commodity to be borne by parties in an auction is achieved while the merits to the parties by the auction are assured thereby to achieve activation of the auction. The auction system includes a server in which an auction site which determines a successful bidder for an auction commodity based on bids performed from user terminals through a network is formed. The server exhibits, in the auction site, a delivery charge bearing object commodity to be sold by a dealer who bears part or all of the delivery charge for the auction commodity for which the user becomes the successful bidder, and performs sales processing of the delivery charge bearing object commodity in combination with the auction commodity in response to a request from a user terminal.

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Dependent claims

An auction system, comprising:

a plurality of user terminals;
and
a server connected to said-user terminals through a network and having an auction site formed therein for receiving bids from said user terminals and determining a successful bidder for an auction commodity based on the received bids;
said server exhibiting, in said auction site thereof, a delivery charge bearing object commodity which is to be sold by a dealer and with which part or all of a delivery charge for the auction commodity for which a user is determined as a successful bidder is to be borne so that the delivery charge bearing object commodity may be sold in combination with the auction commodity in response to a request from one of said user terminals.

1 more element

An auction system, comprising:

a plurality of personal seller terminals and a plurality of participant terminals;
and
an auction server connected to said personal seller terminals and said participant terminals through a network;
said auction server having an auction information reception storage function for receiving and storing auction commodity information from said personal seller terminals, an auction information transmission function for transmitting the auction commodity information to any of said participant terminals in response to a request from the participant terminal, and an auction function for receiving bidding information from said participant terminals based on the auction commodity information and determining a successful bidder based on the bidding information;
said auction server further having a dealer information reception storage function for receiving, from a dealer terminal owned by a predetermined dealer and connected to said auction server through said network, and storing dealer provision information including dealer commodity information which is information regarding a commodity to be sold by said dealer and delivery charge information which is information regarding the charge for delivery to be borne by said dealer in place of the person who purchases the dealer commodity;
said auction information transmission function placing and transmitting the dealer provision information into and together with the information to be transmitted to the participant terminal;
said auction function receiving purchase desired commodity information corresponding to the dealer provision information transmitted from said participant terminals together with the bidding information.

4 more elements

An auction system, comprising:

a plurality of personal seller terminals and a plurality of participant terminals;
and
an auction server connected to said personal seller terminals and said participant terminals through a network;
said auction server having an auction information reception storage function for receiving and storing auction commodity information from said personal seller terminals, an auction information transmission function for transmitting the auction commodity information to any of said participant terminals in response to a request from the participant terminal, and an auction function for receiving bidding information from said participant terminals based on the auction commodity information and determining a successful bidder based on the bidding information;
said auction server further having a dealer information reception storage function for receiving, from a dealer terminal owned by a predetermined dealer and connected to said auction server through said network, and storing dealer provision information including dealer commodity information which is information regarding a commodity to be sold by said dealer and delivery charge information which is information regarding the charge for delivery to be borne by said dealer in place of the person who purchases the dealer commodity;
said auction information reception storage function transmitting, when auction commodity information is received from any of said personal seller terminals, the dealer provision information to the personal seller terminal, whereafter said auction information reception storage function issues a request to select one of commodities in the dealer commodity information included in the dealer provision information and desired to be sold together with the auction commodity by the personal dealer and then receives commodity selection information from the personal seller terminal transmitted thereto in response to the request;
said auction information transmission function placing the commodity selection information into the information to be transmitted to the participant terminal;
said auction function receiving purchase desired commodity information corresponding to the commodity selection information transmitted from said participant terminals together with the bidding information.

5 more elements

An auction system, comprising:

a plurality of personal seller terminals and a plurality of participant terminals;
and
an auction server connected to said personal seller terminals and said participant terminals through a network;
said auction server having an auction information reception storage function for receiving and storing auction commodity information from said personal seller terminals, an auction information transmission function for transmitting the auction commodity information to any of said participant terminals in response to a request from the participant terminal, and an auction function for receiving bidding information from said participant terminals based on the auction commodity information and determining a successful bidder based on the bidding information;
said auction server further having a dealer information reception storage function for transmitting the auction commodity information to a dealer terminal owned by a predetermined dealer and connected to said auction server through said network and receiving from said dealer terminal and storing dealer provision information including dealer commodity information which is information regarding a commodity to be sold by said dealer, auction commodity designation information which designates one of the auction commodities which said dealer hopes to be purchased together with the dealer commodity and delivery charge information which is information regarding the charge for delivery to be borne by said dealer in place of the person who purchases the dealer commodity;
said auction information, transmission function placing and transmitting the dealer provision information into and together with the information to be transmitted to the participant terminal.

3 more elements

An auction system, comprising:

a plurality of personal seller terminals and a plurality of participant terminals;
an auction server connected to said personal seller terminals and said participant terminals through a network;
and
said auction server having an auction information reception storage function for receiving and storing auction commodity information from said personal seller terminals, an auction information transmission function for transmitting the auction commodity information to any of said participant terminals in response to a request from the participant terminal, and an auction function for receiving bidding information from said participant terminals based on the auction commodity information and determining a successful bidder based on the bidding information;
a dealer terminal owned by a predetermined dealer and connected to said auction server through said network, said dealer terminal having a dealer information transmission function for transmitting dealer provision information including dealer commodity information which is information regarding a commodity to be sold by said dealer and delivery charge information which is information regarding the charge for delivery to be borne by said dealer in place of the person who purchases the dealer commodity to said auction server;
said auction server further having a dealer information reception storage function for receiving and storing the dealer provision information;
said auction information transmission function of said auction server placing and transmitting the dealer provision information into and together with the information to be transmitted to the participant terminal;
each of said participant terminals having a bidding function for transmitting purchase desired commodity information corresponding to the dealer provision information to said auction server together with the bidding information;
said auction function of said auction server receiving the purchase desired commodity information corresponding to the dealer provision information transmitted from the participant terminal together with the bidding information.

6 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 10/083,471Filed 27 Feb 2002
Priority: JP 2001-05394928 Feb 2001
Published: 29 Aug 2002
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification3 codes

G06Q 30/08
Buying, selling or leasing transactions: auctions
G06Q 40/04
Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes: trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency…
G06Q
Information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial

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