International Business Machines Corporation

Vipul Bansal

Rahul Garg

Krishna Kummamuru

Rema Ananthanarayanan

Natwar Modani

Parul Alok Mittal

Alok Aggarwal

Abhinanda Sarkar

Samrat Sen

Sreerama K Murthy

Satuloori Sridhar

Rema Ananthanaratanan

Atrayee Roychowdhury

Aditya Afzulpurkar

Parul A Mittal

The present invention relates to a method, system and computer program product for online negotiations and transactions for electronic commerce spanning international boundaries and includes means for incorporating the effects of the associated uncertainties and risks into decisions related to the assignment of items and the determination of their prices and further means for mitigation of some of these uncertainties and risks. These uncertainties and risk may include those originating from price changes, currency fluctuations, counterparty default, non-conformance to quality and quantity specifications and shipment and payment delays.

Online e-commerce transactions incorporating effects of uncertainty and risk factors

The use of software-based agents to act on behalf of human bidders for dynamic participation in multiple simultaneous online auctions is disclosed. The software-based agents may reside on computer systems or on any type of stationary or mobile terminal. On the basis of bidding-related information from a bidder, a software agent selects a plurality of auctions to place bids in. Upon being outbid, the agent determines whether to place an additional bid in a further auction. The agent can make such a determination on the basis of maximising profitability or surplus.

Methods, systems, and computer program products for dynamically bidding in and conducting multiple simultaneous online auctions located across multiple online auction sites

The present invention relates to a computer implementable system and method for allocation and pricing of classified resources of a web server farm to customers by a resource center comprising means for providing different levels of service by dynamically allocating and pricing said resources based on customers' changing needs, and their willingness to pay.

Dynamic allocation and pricing of resources of web server farm

A system for implementing a virtual class and distance education via a computer network is disclosed. The process carried out by the system involves receiving signals from one or more instructor entities, the signals including lesson material designated as belonging to one or more interest groups. The lesson material is sent in advance to student entities listed in one or more of the interest groups to which the lesson material is designated as belonging. Signals from one or more student entities are received requesting admission to a particular class and instructions are sent to student entities to control the display and execution of the lesson material. Interaction amongst student entities, or between student entities and instructor entities, are facilitated and moderated.

Interactive multimedia virtual classes requiring small online network bandwidth

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