Patent ID: 7624065

Claim:
Using a computer network based auctioning system, a method of allowing a user to participate in multiple remotely located auctions simultaneously comprising: sending a user a list of live auctions for display on a user's computer comprising a processor, a display and at least one input device, enabling the user to select, with said at least one input device and said user's computer, one or more auctions to participate in from the list of auctions; receiving the user's selection from said user's computer over the computer network; when the received user selection selects only one auction to participate in, sending, to the user's computer over the computer network, information to support the user's computer launching a single auction view user interlace for display of auction related data and sending, to the user's computer over the computer network, a live video feed for said single selected auction; and when the received user selection selects more than one auction to participate in simultaneously, sending, to the user's computer over the computer network, information to support the user's computer launching a multi-auction display user interface web page for display of live video feeds from multiple auctions within different panes of said multi-auction display user interlace web page, and sending and routing, to the user's computer over the computer network, a first live video feed from a first live auction and also simultaneously sending and routing, to the user's computer over the computer network, a second live video feed from a geographically-disparate second live auction different from said first live auction, including adjusting, at least in part in response to receipt of signals indicating the user has currently selected one of said first and second simultaneously-proceeding live auctions, the video frame rate delivered to the user's computer for at least one of said first and second live video feeds corresponding to the currently-selected one of said first and second simultaneously proceeding live auctions, to provide a higher video frame rate for the auction the user has currently selected while accommodating bandwidth requirements.