Method and system of listing an item in a fixed-price section
AssigneeeBay Inc.
InventorAmit Goel
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Abstract
A method and system includes listing an item for sale in a first section of an electronic system and listing the item in a second section of the electronic system. In an example, the first section may offer the item for sale from a time A to a time B, and the second section may offer the item for sale from the time B to a time C. In an additional example, the first section may offer the item for sale via an auction process and a first fixed-price process, and the second section may offer the item for sale via a second fixed-price process.
Claims29
An electronic publishing system to offer an item for sale, over a network, the system comprising:
- a first section to offer a first item for sale via an auction process and a first fixed-price process;
- and
- a second section to offer the first item for sale via a second fixed-price process.
An electronic publishing system comprising:
- an auction section to offer an item for sale via an auction process from a time A to a time B;
- and
- a clearance section to offer the item for sale via a fixed-price process from the time B to a time C, wherein at the time B the item transfers from the auction section to the clearance section.
A method to offer an item for sale via an electronic marketplace system, over a network, the method including:
- selecting between listing an item in an auction section of the electronic marketplace system via an auction process and listing the item in a clearance section of the electronic marketplace system via a fixed-price process;
- and
- transitioning the item between the auction section and the clearance section upon the occurrence of a predetermined event.
A method comprising:
- transferring an item offered for sale in an auction section of an electronic publishing system over a network via an auction process from a time A to a time B to a fixed-price section of the electronic publishing system from the time B to a time C.
A system comprising:
- means for listing an item offered for sale via an auction process in a first section of an electronic system over a network from a time A to a time B;
- and
- means for listing the item offered for sale via a fixed price process in a second section of the electronic system from the time B to a time C.
A computer-readable medium having program instructions to perform a method including:
- listing an item for sale in an auction section of an electronic system via an auction process from a time A to a time B;
- transferring the item from the auction section to a clearance section of the electronic system;
- and
- listing the item in the clearance section at a fixed-price from the time B to a time C.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.