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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 12, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Matthew K Franklin, New York, NY (US);
Michael K Reiter, Raritan, NJ (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
705 37 ; 705 64 ; 705 67 ;
Abstract
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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