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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2007
Glen E. Chalemin, Austin, TX (US);
Indran Naick, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Clifford J. Spinac, Austin, TX (US);
Calvin L. Sze, Austin, TX (US);
Glen E. Chalemin, Austin, TX (US);
Indran Naick, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Clifford J. Spinac, Austin, TX (US);
Calvin L. Sze, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
It has been discovered that instances of an item to be sold in online auctions may be linked to an already created online auction listing for the item. The associating propagates the online auction listing to these other item instances. The propagating allows junior bidders (i.e., losing bidders) to continue pursuing purchase of the associated item instances and allows the junior sellers of the associated item instances to leverage the information of the online auction listing.