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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsThomas Chefalas, Steven Mastrianni, Clifford Pickover, Robert Wisniewski
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Systems and method for providing an auction. A computer server has a searchable database of items offered for sale by a plurality of sellers. The database is accessible by a plurality of sellers and a plurality of buyers. A conglomeration agent running on the server identifies related items for sale as a single conglomeration and stores the conglomeration in the database. The buyer may view both individual items for sale and conglomerations of items for sale, and place a bid on a conglomeration of such items or the individual item. If the bid matches the conditions set forth by the sellers, the sale of either a conglomeration or an individual item is completed. The system also generates a performance metric for both buyers and sellers which are also made available to buyer and sellers and may be used to assess the desirability of dealing with certain buyers or sellers.
A method for conducting an auction comprising:
A system for providing an auction comprising:
A system for providing an auction comprising:
A computer product for creating an auction comprising a computer readable media containing instructions for creating:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.