REAL-TIME SALES SYSTEM

摘要

The invention resides in a system (10) for real-time on-line sales comprising a database (11) for storing details of products, prices and other information. The database (11) is accessed by multiple sales controller computers (12). Each sales controller computer (12) runs a sales controller application (13) which displays a sales controller interface. A sales controller (14), such as an auctioneer, monitors on-line sales activity via the interface. Sales controllers maybe ion different physical locations. Multiple buyers (15) participate in real-time on-line sales via a buyer interface displayed by buyer application (16) running on a buyer computer (17). Buyer computers (17) communicate with one or more sales controller computers (12) via a communications channel (18) allowing each buyer application (16) to display multiple price clocks from multiple sales controller applications (13) in potentially different businesses/locations. Buyer computers (17) also communicate with a database (11) via communication channel (19) to access product information.