Patent ID: 8554636

Claim:
An internet-based method of executing a transaction involving a transfer of an interest in a patent asset between a first party and a second party at least in part by way of an intermediary interacting with at least one exchange, the method comprising: (a) providing onto the internet, from a first computer system of the intermediary, first information for receipt by a second computer system of a first exchange, wherein the first information serves to identify the first computer system to the second computer system so that the first computer system is able to access the second computer system; (b) sending a search request from the first computer system for receipt by the second computer system, the search request specifying a first attribute of a patent asset desired by the intermediary; (c) receiving at the first computer system, via the internet, search result information provided by the second computer system in response to the search request; (d) processing the search result information at the first computer system, wherein based upon the processing the first computer system determines that the patent asset satisfying the first attribute is available via the first exchange; (e) communicating in relation to the second computer system via the internet a first bid pertaining to first rights in the patent asset; (f) concluding a first agreement between the intermediary and the first party by which the first rights in the patent asset are transferred to the intermediary; (g) sending third information regarding the patent asset from the first computer system for receipt by at least one of the second computer system and a third computer system of a second exchange; (h) receiving at the first computer system, from the at least one of the second and third computer systems via the internet, a second bid pertaining to the patent asset, the second bid originating at the second party; and (i) concluding a second agreement between the intermediary and the second party by which the interest in the patent asset is transferred from the intermediary to the second party, the interest including at least some of the first rights.