Patent ID: 7925571
Filing Date: 2011-04-12
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A system for interacting with a plurality of content receivers, comprising: a transmission system for transmitting information about an auction article to a plurality of remote locations to be received by a plurality of content receivers at the respective remote locations, and transmitting an invitation to enter a lowest unique bid for the auction article to the content receivers at the respective remote locations; a receiving system to receive a plurality of bid amounts for the auction article from a subset of the plurality of content receivers; a computer memory; a computer processor; a storing module in the computer memory, which is executable by the processor to store the bid amounts and information of the subset of the plurality of content receivers who submitted the bid amounts in the computer memory; an evaluation module in the computer memory, which is executable by the computer processor to determine a lowest unique bid among the bid amounts stored in the computer memory; an extraction module in the computer memory, which is executable by the processor to extract information of a winning content receiver who submitted the lowest unique bid from the memory and a fallback module in the computer memory, that executes in the computer processor if the evaluation module determines that there is no unique bid, the fallback module: (i) determining which bid amounts have the lowest number of bids; (ii) determining which bid amount determined in (i) is the lowest; and (iii) determining which bid determined in (ii) was first submitted, the extraction module extracting information of a winning content receiver who submitted the bid determined in (iii).