Secure auction systems

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6055518
SERIAL NO

08745717

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The apparatus and method of the present invention provide secure auction service for use in a network having servers and bidding terminals. The auction service makes transactions among servers and bidding terminals subject to a distributed protocol. The distributed protocol distributes submitted bids among the multiple servers, closes a bidding period, verifies validity of monetary value of each submitted bid by utilizing said distributed protocol and determines a winning bidder.

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  • AT&T CORP.

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Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Franklin, Matthew K New York, NY 11 622
Reiter, Michael K Raritan, NJ 1 328

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