Patent ID: 8156011

Claim:
A cenotaph facility comprising: a building having a roof member and a structural support member to provide structural support for the roof member such that the structural support member and the roof member define an interior portion of the building; a plurality of crypts housed within the interior portion of the building; an object related to an honoree of the cenotaph facility and positioned within the interior portion of the building and memorializing the building in honor of the honoree; a data storage device configured to store data related to the honoree; a network interface controller (NIC) communicatively coupled to a computer network; a server configured to retrieve a portion of the stored data related to the honoree in response to a request for data received from the computer network via the NIC and to transmit the portion of the stored data to the computer network via the NIC; and an on-line auction system comprising: an auction data storage element configured to store auction data related to auction items related to the honoree, the auction data storage element communicatively coupled to an auction NIC to provide the auction data to a remote location via the computer network; and a transaction processor configured to control an auction of the auction items by receiving a bid for a particular auction item and analyzing the received bid to determine whether the received bid is a high bid exceeding other bids for the particular auction item, the transaction processor further configured to determine a winning bid from received bids.