Patent ID: 7630906

Claim:
A distributed computer system for creating a market for efficient public policies, comprising: a central computer for registering a plurality of accounts for innovators of new public policies and potential subscribers thereto, and for maintaining a database record stored therein; a plurality of innovator terminals connected to said central computer; a plurality of politician terminals connected to said central computer; a plurality of subscriber terminals connected to said central computer; a policy auction software program for facilitating an auction by which a plurality of registered subscribers can bid over said subscriber terminals for adoption of said public policies, said software program including source code for registration of each new public policy, source code for implementing valuation of each new public policy based on forecasted savings generated by legislative adoption, and source code for implementing a series of hierarchical auctions for a right to receive a portion of savings generated from legislative adoption of said public policy; whereby when a subscriber selects a winning bid said bid is charged to said subscriber's account.