Patent Document ID: 6131087
Application ID: 09186764
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer implemented method for market participants for automatically identifying and matching offer data with solicitation data, said solicitation data stored in a solicitations data base, said method comprising the steps of: receiving offer data consisting of numerical linear ranges defining a lower point, an upper point, and a preferred point for each dimension of said offer data; storing the received offer data in a database; comparing points for each dimension of the stored offer data to corresponding dimensions of said solicitation data, said solicitation data consisting of numerical linear ranges defining a lower point, an upper point, and a preferred point for each dimension of said solicitation data, to: identify solicitations with matching preferred points, identify solicitations with preferred points having a near match with said offer data when said upper point and said preferred point of said offer data are between said upper point and said preferred point of said solicitation data, and identify solicitations with preferred points within corresponding ranges to said offer data when at least one of said lower point, said upper point, and said preferred point of said offer data is between said lower point and said upper point of said solicitation data; transmitting the identified solicitations with matching preferred points, near matching preferred points, and preferred points within corresponding ranges to an originator of said offer data.