WEB-BASED SEARCH AND BIDDING SYSTEM AND METHOD

摘要

A method of accepting a bid for an item offered for sale through an internet web portal comprising the following steps: listing with an internet web portal bid program by an item being sold by a merchant; accessing the internet web portal bid program by a user to obtain of bid information of the item; placing with the internet web portal bid program by the registered user of a bid for the item, the bid containing a price that the registered user will pay for the item; presenting by the internet web portal bid program to the registered merchant of one or more economic factors to assist the registered merchant in selecting at least one bid from the one or more bids as a winning bid, one or more economic factors being based on item information and being other than the bid price.

主权项

1. A method of accepting a bid for purchasing an item offered for sale through an internet web portal comprising the following steps:
(A) listing for bid with an internet web portal bid program of an item being sold by a merchant, the merchant being previously registered with the internet web portal; (B) accessing the internet web portal bid program by a user to obtain of information for the bid item, the user being previously registered with the internet web portal; (C) placing with the internet web portal bid program by the registered user of a bid for the item, the bid containing a price that the registered user will pay for the bid item; (D) accessing the internet web portal bid program by the registered merchant to obtain bid information on one or more bids for the bid item as placed by registered user and any other biding registered users; (E) presenting by the internet web portal bid program to the registered merchant of one or more economic factors other than the bid price to assist the registered merchant in accepting at least one bid from the one or more bids for the bid item, and (F) processing as a sale by the registered merchant of at least one bid from the one or more bids for the bid item.