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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2007
Gagan Aggarwal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jon Feldman, New York, NY (US);
Shanmugavelayutham Muthukrishnan, New York, NY (US);
Rohit Rao, New York, NY (US);
Adam Wildavsky, Jackson Heights, NY (US);
Gagan Aggarwal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jon Feldman, New York, NY (US);
Shanmugavelayutham Muthukrishnan, New York, NY (US);
Rohit Rao, New York, NY (US);
Adam Wildavsky, Jackson Heights, NY (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is described that includes accessing bids for ranked goods and minimum rank indicators that each specifies a lowest rank for a good that is acceptable to a bidder, assigning a ranked good to a first bidder based on a first bid and a first minimum rank indicator each associated with the first bidder, and outputting a signal indicative of a cost of the assigned rank good based on a second bid associated with a next highest bidder having a second minimum rank indicator that specifies a rank that is inclusive of a rank of the ranked good assigned to the first bidder.