Patent ID: 6938012
Filing Date: 2005-08-30
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A quantitative competition method for generating a sealed-bid auction in which a minimum value V MIN of all intended values V vi selected from among M monotone increasing values V w , where w=1, 2, . . . , M, in a range of predetermined lower-limit and upper-limit values V 1 and V M , respectively, and only a user j having selected said minimum value V MIN as an intended value V vi are specified by a plurality of user apparatuses i, where i=1, . . . , N, said N being an integer equal to or larger than 2, first and second quantitative competition apparatuses, and a bulletin board apparatus that makes public information received from said plurality of user apparatuses and said first and second quantitative competition apparatuses, said method comprising: Step (a) of generating two M-element sequences of information s Step (b) of extracting elements s Step (c) of extracting elements t Step (d) of comparing said element concatenations Seq Step (e) of sending element concatenations Seq