Patent Document ID: 20040039678
Application ID: 10047366
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A lease auction method comprising the steps of: (a) providing to at least one lessor's computer via a computer network a first plurality of lessee qualitative variables and a first plurality of lessee quantitative data regarding a lease received at a lessee's computer; (b) receiving from each lessor's computer via the computer network a second plurality of lessor qualitative variables and a second plurality of lessor quantitative data regarding the lease; (c) receiving from the lessee's computer via the computer network for at least one of the second qualitative variables for each lessor at least one of a grade and a relative weight related to an importance of the at least one second qualitative variable to the lessee; (d) for each lessor, processing the at least one of the grade and the relative weight received for the at least one second qualitative variable and the lessor quantitative data to determining a weighted total score; (e) ranking the weighted total scores; (f) providing the ranked weighted total scores to the lessee's computer and each lessor's computer via the computer network; and (g) repeating steps (c) through (f) each time a change of at least one of the lessor qualitative variables or at least one of the lessor quantitative data is received from at least one of the lessor's computers via the computer network.