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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2000
Applicants:
Brenda Lynn Dietrich, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
John Joseph Forrest, Peekskill, NY (US);
Inventors:
Brenda Lynn Dietrich, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
John Joseph Forrest, Peekskill, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/60 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for determining the set of winning bids in a combinatorial auction. Two variants of the method are disclosed. The first method is appropriate when the number of players and the number of combinations of items that are bid on by an individual player are relatively small. The second method is applicable when either of these values becomes large.