| 发明名称 |
Ghost Bidding and Serious Bidder Detection in Automated Auctions |
| 摘要 |
Potential ghost bidding and non-serious bidding in an automated auction is detected and alerted to a user by retrieving by a computer one or more historical automated auction records related to an offering party in a current automated auction; detecting by a computer the retrieved records that a same or similar item is being offered in the current automated auction that has been offered in a previous automated auction; responsive to the detecting, increasing a ghost bidding likelihood parameter by a computer; determining by a computer that a bidder in the current automated auction also bid in one or more of the historical automated auctions; responsive to the determining, increasing by a computer the ghost bidding likelihood parameter; and alerting a user of the current automated auction of the ghost bidding likelihood parameter for each determined bidder. |
| 申请公布号 |
US2015356673(A1) |
申请公布日期 |
2015.12.10 |
| 申请号 |
US201514829828 |
申请日期 |
2015.08.19 |
| 申请人 |
International Business Machines Corporation |
发明人 |
Bhogal Kulvir Singh;Hamilton, II Rick Allen;Kozloski James Robert;Pickover Clifford Alan |
| 分类号 |
G06Q30/08 |
主分类号 |
G06Q30/08 |
| 代理机构 |
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代理人 |
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| 主权项 |
1. A method for detecting and alerting to potential ghost bidding in an automated auction comprising:
retrieving by a computer one or more historical automated auction records related to an offering party in a current automated auction; detecting by a computer from the retrieved records that a same or similar item is being offered in the current automated auction that has been offered in a previous automated auction; responsive to the detecting, increasing a ghost bidding likelihood parameter by a computer; determining by a computer that a virtual social relationship exists by finding one or more conditions selected from the group consisting of a bidder in the current automated auction also bid in one or more of the historical automated auctions, and a bidder in the current automated auction having a social relationship with an offeror in the current automated auction according to one or more social network web services; responsive to the determining, increasing by a computer the ghost bidding likelihood parameter; and alerting a user of the current automated auction of the ghost bidding likelihood parameter for each determined bidder. |
| 地址 |
Armonk NY US |
