A method and an apparatus for a universal trading market design and deployment system

摘要

A universal auction specification system including a network-accessible set of trading primitives ("TPs") and a market specification console (110) that includes a script generator (121) for combining the set of TPs into a temporal protocol script representing a particular auction specification. The system further includes a programmable auction server (140) that has a plurality of modules wherein each module may have a TP.