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Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 15, 2016
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Eric H. Bokelberg, Colchester, VT (US);

Blain A. Dillard, Cary, NC (US);

David A. Hoffman, Raleigh, NC (US);

Patrick Howard, Charlotte, NC (US);

Brian T. Paulsen, Overland Park, KS (US);

Jose A. Tano, Miami Beach, FL (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/12 (2006.01); A63F 9/06 (2006.01); G06Q 10/06 (2012.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); A63F 13/30 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 9/0612 (2013.01); A63F 13/12 (2013.01); A63F 13/30 (2014.09); G06Q 10/06311 (2013.01); G06Q 10/101 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and system for conducting a challenge event. The challenge event is communicated to at least two participants in a form of an event specification, in response to receipt of a request for the challenge event from a client computer. A proposal for a solution that meets the event specification is received from each participant of the at least two participants. Only one participant is chosen from the at least two participants, based on the proposal previously received from each participant.


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