Patent ID: 8812389

Claim:
A system for dividing assets between two or more parties, the system comprising: a catalog module configured to receive an inventory of assets and their corresponding values; a survey module configured to determine the parties time constraints, monetary interest, and emotional interest in the assets; a bidding module configured to determine the results of the division; a post-bidding module configured to finalize the results of the division; and a storage device configured to store the results of the catalog module, survey module, bidding module, and post bidding module; the bidding module further comprising: a first round engine configured to determine each party's interest in an asset, wherein each party submits to each asset a not interested value or an interested value, all assets receiving a not interested value being sold or donated and the proceeds of the sale added to the total asset value; a second round engine configured to determine the monetary value of interested assets, wherein each party accepts the listed monetary value or either requests a new appraisal or submits a bid to increase the monetary value of each asset, the system assigning to each asset a contested value to all assets whose monetary value is not in agreement and an uncontested value to all assets whose monetary value is in agreement; a third round engine configured to distribute uncontested assets using a bidding system when at least one party disclosed an emotional interest in an asset, wherein each party receives emotional currency according to their percentage value, each party submits a bid on assets with emotional currency, all assets with no emotional currency bid or tied emotional currency bids being assigned a contested value, all winning bids being deducted from the party's emotional currency, wherein the third round will repeat until emotional currency is depleted, wherein emotional currency is the value used to determine which party gets items what carry an emotional charge; a fourth round engine configured to distribute contested assets using a balanced blind bidding system, wherein each party submits a bid on assets with real currency, the winning bid being capped by a percent of the next highest bid, the total asset value updated to reflect the new value; and a fifth round engine configured to distribute all remaining assets by selection.