Patent ID: 7653551

Claim:
A method of searching intellectual property listings, comprising: maintaining a user-interface site accessible by a plurality of users; establishing a connection to a plurality of third-party sources of intellectual property listings available for transacting; receiving from at least one of said plurality of users search criteria for searching said plurality of third-party sources of intellectual property listings; searching said plurality of third-party sources of intellectual property listings according to said search criteria; presenting a resulting set of intellectual property listings to said at least one of said plurality of users; receiving from said at least one of said plurality of users an identification of those of said resulting set of intellectual property listings that are of interest to said at least one of said plurality of users; securing a permission from each of said plurality of third-party sources of intellectual property listings for allowing a search of each said plurality of third-party sources; and securing from each of said plurality of third-party sources of intellectual property listings a fee-sharing agreement.