Patent ID: 8688542

Claim:
A method of managing a bid tracking database at a first server, the method comprising: receiving at least one bid record at an interface of the first server from a mobile electronic device via a second server, the at least one bid record comprising a bid price, a bid timestamp, and a bid item identifier; receiving at least one auction record at the interface of the first server from a third server, the at least one auction record comprising a winning price, an end timestamp, and an auction item identifier corresponding to the bid item identifier, and the at least one auction record corresponding to an auction run by an auction website hosted at the third server; maintaining, by the first server, the at least one bid record and the at least one auction record in a memory; when the at least one auction record indicates that the auction has ended, determining, by the first server, whether the bid price matches or exceeds the winning price and whether the bid timestamp matches the end timestamp to identify the bid record corresponding to winning bid data included in the at least one auction record; and when the determination is affirmative, writing the bid record to the bid tracking database maintained in the memory.