Patent ID: 7761341

Claim:
A purchasing agent system for managing a purchase of at least one product and/or service from a plurality of websites, the purchasing agent system comprising: a computer processor; a memory including: an auction profile database including information necessary to register a given user on at least two auction sites each with a separate command language, a separate auction database, and a separate user interface thereto; a search manager configured to search with the separate command language for the separate auction database of each of the at least two auction sites for at least one item as specified by the given user, and determine that the item is available at a first price through a first site of the at least two auction sites and that the item is available at a second price through a second site of the two auction sites; and an auction bid controller configured to determine which of the first price and the second price comprises a lower price, and automatically place a bid, without further user intervention, at the first site using the separate command language of the first site in response to determining that the first price comprises the lower price, and automatically place a bid, without further user intervention, at the second site using the separate command language of the second site in response to determining that the second price comprises the lower price.