Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Electronic shopping
Reexamination Certificate
2006-07-18
2006-07-18
Cuff, Michael (Department: 3627)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Electronic shopping
C705S037000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07080029
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed are a method, system and computer program product for placing a group order, mediated by a system having one or more computers, the method comprising the steps of: publishing, by a publisher, information about a quantity of a material; subscribing, via a subscriber, to a topic comprising said information; receiving, via a subscriber, said information; aggregating, via a subscriber, said information from at least one of said publishers; and responsive to said step of aggregating, selecting based on at least one criterion a best time to place said group order.
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Fallside David C.
Ibbotson John B.
Stanford-Clark Andrew J.
Cuff Michael
Herndon Jerry W.
International Business Machines Corp.
Simpson Mark D.
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