Patent ID: 9684930
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: G06Q,H04L

Claim:
1. A method for operating previously unscheduled, spontaneous online auctions, comprising: determining, by a service provider server comprising one or more processors, bidder preference information; determining, based at least in part on the bidder preference information, if a threshold number of bidders have a common bidder preference; identifying, based at least in part on the common bidder preference, one or more vehicles for online auction that include an attribute associated with the common bidder preference; inviting a number of bidders associated with the common bidder preference to participate in the online auction of the one or more vehicles that include the attribute associated with the common bidder preference; detecting an indication of an auction event associated with the online vehicle auction for the one or more vehicles; determining current auction information associated with the online vehicle auction; determining auction event information associated with the auction event; identifying, based at least in part on the current auction information and the auction event information, one or more media files for playback on a bidder device; determining a sequence in which to play the one or media files consistent with an auction status; and transmitting, to the bidder device in response to the indication of the auction event, the one or more media files for playback on the bidder device according to the determined sequence, and ordering the one or more media files to form a naturalistic auctioneer phraseology and a naturalistic timing and flow, wherein playback of the one or more media files according to the determined sequence results in acoustic output of one or more auctioneer phrases.