Patent ID: 6226365
Filing Date: 2001-05-01
Classification: H04M,H04Q

Abstract:
A method for displaying market prices arising from telecommunications transactions, comprising the steps of:receiving service offers from one or more sellers of telecommunications services, each service offer offering for sale a block of telecommunications services, each service offer specifying a plurality of parameters including rate information for the offered block of telecommunications services;identifying one or more routes for routing calls between a pair of locations based on the parameters specified in one or more of said service offers, each of the identified routes comprising one or more legs, service for each leg being provided by a telecommunications service provider;receiving service requests from a plurality of buyers of telecommunications services, each service request requesting purchase of a block of telecommunications services, each service request specifying a plurality of parameters that include a terminating location for the requested block of telecommunications services;matching one or more of the service requests to at least a portion of one or more of the service offers based on the plurality of parameters specified by the buyers and sellers;brokering a transaction that effects a transfer of ownership of at least a portion of the blocks of telecommunications services specified in the matched service offers from one or more of said one or more sellers to one or more of said plurality of buyers who provided the correspondingly matched service requests;determining a market price for at least one identified route; anddisplaying the market price.