Patent ID: 7418408

Claim:
A method of providing information to a potential buyer at a live auction of used motor vehicles, the method comprising: (a) transmitting remotely via electronic means by a seller to a server specific information including an inventory of used motor vehicles that are to be sold at an auction where the vehicles are temporarily stored at a particular location at the auction and are sequentially placed on one or more auction blocks for sale, which specific information also includes the particular location of the vehicles at the auction site and the particular time at which each vehicle will be auctioned; (b) transmitting by the server the specific information remotely via electromagnetic radiation to the potential buyer who is physically present at the auction site and who has an apparatus equipped with a means for receiving the specific information; (c) selecting by the potential buyer particular vehicles from the specific information; (d) selecting by the potential buyer an information provider from a plurality of information providers from which to obtain standard information about used motor vehicle values; (e) obtaining by the server the standard information for all of the selected particular vehicles simultaneously from the selected information provider and integrating on the server the specific information and the standard information for each selected vehicle; (f) transmitting the integrated information by electromagnetic radiation to the potential buyer; and (g) displaying the transmitted integrated information on the potential buyer's apparatus.