Patent ID: 8117080

Claim:
A pooling method for auction, performed by a computer-implemented network for a social network system, comprising the steps of: providing users of the social network system with bidding money; building a bidding back-up friendship among the users to enable providing bidding money and bidding tickets among bidding back-up friends; providing the users with bidding tickets wherein the bidding ticket entitles its holder to participate in an auction for a bidding content; after a bidding session begins, providing one user's bidding money or bidding ticket to his bidding back-up friend who participates in an auction using the bidding ticket; and after the bidding session ends, best bidder's winning the auction and taking the bidding content through the computer-implemented network wherein the best bidder's bidding back-up friends who provided the best bidder with bidding money or bidding ticket for the auction are compensated.