Auction Closing Price Guessing Game System
OwnerManuel Ongkingco DelaCruz, JR.inventor
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Abstract
An auction closing price guessing game system is a method for attracting participants to an auction, even if they have no interest in buying the item being auctioned. A system for an auction closing price guessing game includes a processor; memory operably connected to the processor; client bidding and guessing, auction end, and month end programs loaded into the memory and operable by the processor; lists of user data, item listings, bids data, and guesses data loaded into the memory and operable by the processor; and the current time loaded into the memory and operable by the processor.
Claims20
A method for determining the most accurate guess of the winning bid price for an item at auction comprising:
- obtaining a list of guesses of winning bid prices for an item at auction;
- obtaining a winning bid price for the item at auction;
- for each guess, determining if the guess is greater than or equal to the winning bid price;
- and
- responsive to determining the guess is greater than or equal to the winning bid price, recording the guess in a list of qualifying guesses.
A system for an auction closing price guessing game comprising:
- a processor;
- memory operably connected to the processor;
- a client bidding and guessing program loaded into the memory and operable by the processor;
- an auction end program loaded into the memory and operable by the processor;
- a month end program loaded into the memory and operable by the processor;
- a list of user data loaded into the memory and operable by the processor;
- a list of item listings loaded into the memory and operable by the processor;
- a list of bids data loaded into the memory and operable by the processor;
- a list of guesses data loaded into the memory and operable by the processor;
- and
- current time data loaded into said memory and operable by said processor.
A computer program product for providing an auction closing price guessing game comprising:
- a computer readable medium;
- first program instructions to obtain a list of guesses of winning bid prices for an item at auction;
- second program instructions to obtain a winning bid price for the item at auction;
- third program instructions to determine if each guess in the list of guesses is greater than or equal to the winning bid price;
- fourth program instructions to record the guess in a list of qualifying guesses if the guess is greater than or equal to the winning bid price;
- fifth program instructions to calculate the difference between each guess in the list of qualifying guesses and the winning bid price;
- sixth program instructions to record the difference in the list of qualifying guesses;
- seventh program instructions to sort the guesses in the list of qualifying guesses from the lowest difference to the highest difference;
- eighth program instructions to record the sorted guesses in a list of best guesses;
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- ninth program instructions to award a prize to a guess with the lowest difference.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.