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Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2020

Filed:

Apr. 12, 2018
Applicant:

Royal Bank of Canada, Montreal, CA;

Inventors:

Peter Vincent Leonard, Toronto, CA;

Edison U. Ortiz, Orlando, FL (US);

Iustina-Miruna Vintila, Bucharest, RO;

Marko Pavlovic, Montreal, CA;

Assignee:

ROYAL BANK OF CANADA, Montreal, CA;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); G06Q 30/08 (2012.01); G06Q 30/06 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/0222 (2013.01); G06Q 30/08 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0641 (2013.01);
Abstract

A bid platform for electronic commerce uses smart contracts and a distributed ledger to manage bids and offers for products. The bid platform receives a bid for a product, generates a bid event on a distributed ledger using the smart contracts, propagates the bid event to merchants using the smart contracts and the distributed ledger, receives one or more offers, generates one or more offer events on the distributed ledger using the smart contracts, propagates the one or more offer events using the smart contracts and the distributed ledger, and receives an accepted offer.


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