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US 8,527,392 B2Granted
Method and apparatus for holding a two-stage live auction for on-site and on-line bidders
AssigneeeBay Inc.
InventorsDaniele Levy, Brad Handler
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AssigneeeBay Inc.
InventorsDaniele Levy, Brad Handler
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A method and apparatus are provided for conducting a two-stage live auction for on-site and on-line bidders, the two stages including a live, in-person auction component and a real-time online bidding environment component. Bidding information associated with an item in the online bidding environment is updated to reflect a current bid associated with the item in the live, in-person auction. During the live, in-person auction, a bid is be accepted from an online bidder in the online environment that reflects the online bidder's bid price for the item. Subsequently, the system bids on behalf of the online bidder against other online bidders as well as one or more live bidders that are participating in the live, in-person. As such, the live auction enables real-time online bidding in a live, in-person auction.
A method of performing an auction of an item, the method comprising:
A computer-implemented method comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having embedded therein a set of instructions which, when executed by one or more processors of a computer, causes the computer to execute the following operations:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.