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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2008
Applicants:
Abhishek Bapna, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jon Feldman, New York, NY (US);
Shanmugavelayutham Muthukrishnan, New York, NY (US);
Inventors:
Abhishek Bapna, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jon Feldman, New York, NY (US);
Shanmugavelayutham Muthukrishnan, New York, NY (US);
Assignee:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 40/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Items can be reserved in advance of a future spot market sale. A reservation price can be determined for the item based on an expected spot market price required to obtain the item in the future sport market sale, a time until the spot market sale, and/or market signals. The reservation price can converge to the expected spot market price as the time of the future spot market approaches.