Patent ID: 7076457
Filing Date: 2006-07-11
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented scoop information trading method executed by a trading server, comprising: receiving scoop information obtained and submitted by a poster independent from a buyer, and position information, which is verified by a third party independent from said poster and said buyer, and which represents where said scoop information was obtained, and storing said scoop information and said position information as an object traded on a scoop information trade market, into a submitted information storage device; receiving a purchase request for specific scoop information stored in said submitted information storage device from a terminal of a buyer, and determining a purchase request satisfying a predetermined trade acceptance condition for said specific scoop information, wherein said predetermined trade acceptance condition is stored in a trade acceptance condition storage device and is used to determine a buyer to be granted a purchase priority of said specific scoop information; notifying grant of a purchase priority of said specific scoop information to said terminal of a buyer who made a purchase request satisfying said predetermined trade acceptance condition; extracting an investigator from an investigator position information storage device, who is in the vicinity of the scoop information locale based on said position information for said specific scoop information, which is stored in said submitted information storage device; and transmitting an investigation request for said specific scoop information to a terminal of the extracted investigator.