Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Electronic shopping
Reexamination Certificate
2001-11-15
2009-02-17
Patel, Jagdish N (Department: 3693)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Electronic shopping
C705S027200
Reexamination Certificate
active
07493271
ABSTRACT:
A system and method for mediating a providing selling information over a network is provided. The method includes receiving an information request that requests selling price information about a commodity from at least one information requester terminal, and communicating the information request to a plurality of information provider terminals; collecting pieces of selling price information that are received from part of the plurality of information provider terminals, and match the information request, in response to the information request, and generating collected selling price information that matches the information request; supplying the collected selling price information to the information requester terminal, and charging the information requester terminal a prescribed information supply fee and mediation commission; and performing processing for paying a prescribed informer fee to the part of the plurality of information provider terminals that provided the pieces of selling price information that match the information request.
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Chandler Sara
NEC Infrontia Corporation
Patel Jagdish N
Sughrue & Mion, PLLC
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