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In some embodiments, the present invention provides methods and systems for facilitating transactions between advertisers and advertisees for arranging for presentation of advertisements to users of computers or other computerized devices. Advertiser and advertisee offers, including user context conditions, are obtained. User context information is obtained, such as real-time or almost real-time information about an online user of an Internet site of the advertiser. If a match is determined between an advertiser offer, an advertisee offer, and a user context, arranging for presentation of an advertisement to the user is facilitated.

The invention provides systems and methods for assisting the buying and selling of properties. The invention serves as a single point of contact for sellers, buyers, negotiators and third party service providers in the real estate market, offering a forum for identifying needs, presenting solutions and accessing a suite of real estate tools and services.

An application architecture preferably includes resource applications, transaction applications, appointment management applications, advertising applications, and operations applications. A technical architecture preferably includes hardware that supports the application architecture, such as web servers serving web pages that serve as an online interface between the application architecture and the users. A business operation solution preferably includes independent but interacting product and content management functions, customer service functions, negotiator acquisition and management functions, operations support functions, marketing functions, alliance formation and management functions, technology operations functions, and back office support functions.

A method preferably includes providing an online interface that sellers can use to provide information regarding properties they wish to sell, that can be used to publish the property-for-sale information to many buyers, and that buyers can use to provide information regarding properties they wish to buy. The method further includes selecting a property for recommendation to the buyer and providing the online interface for recommending the property to the buyer. The method further includes facilitating a negotiation between the seller and the buyer as necessary to effect a closing of a transaction between the seller and the buyer for the property.

A system for storage and maintenance of semiconductor wafers or reticles under fabrication between process steps of the fabrication. The system is configured as either a stocker, an overhead transport system (OHT) or an overhead buffer (OHB with gas-purge ports which mechanically mate with a standard receptacle of a wafer/reticle carrier. A control circuit is attached to the gas-purge ports which controls gas flow into the carrier through gas purge port said Control is performed even in the absence of a communications network attached to the control circuit.

An advertising server allocates advertising impressions to meet advertisers' demands for opportunities to run advertising, for example ad content inserted into Web pages for payment. Supplies of advertising impressions are paired by their characteristics with demands that the supplies could meet. For paired eligible supplies and demands, an ideal allocation is determined, between zero and a maximum. The ideal allocations for all pairs are the coordinates of a utopia point in multidimensional space, although meeting all these ideals is likely to be impossible because of practical constraints. Using optional weighting, candidate allocations are tested or compared. Each candidate allocation produces coordinates in the multidimensional space. The candidate allocations are compared, based on the relative proximity of their coordinates to the potentially-impossible utopia point in multidimensional space. A ranking is stored or the selected allocation is executed, under control of a programmed processor.

An automated system and method for displaying transactable items at multiple websites in real time. The system and method employs trigger criteria to identify appropriate transactable items for display at specific websites, e.g., affiliate websites. The system further facilitates receiving and responding to offer(s) based on predetermined criteria is disclosed. The automated system and method facilitates the sale of products/services over a computer network, e.g., the Internet or the World Wide Web. According to the disclosed system/method, an offer is electronically communicated to a processing system and, based on predetermined criteria, a responsive communication is electronically generated. The responsive communication generally takes the form of an acceptance of the offer, a counter-offer, or a communication regarding next steps in the negotiation process.

System, methods, and computer program products for facilitating negotiations for reinsurance of a risk. The negotiations for reinsurance of a risk are conducted between a cedent and one to many assumers. An interface is provided for allowing submissions of risk for reinsurance, responses from selected assumers, and replies to the responses as necessary to continue or conclude the negotiation. The interface also allows users to view information exchanged during various stages of the negotiation. Additional functionality including categorizing risk, categorizing reinsurance, required distribution, distribution preferences, and endorsement agreements are also provided.

An apparatus facilitating a direct memory copy among devices may include a processor and memory storing executable computer code causing the apparatus to at least perform operations including exchanging content with a device via a near field communication responsive to entering a proximity of the device. The computer program code causes the apparatus to detect an item(s) of data of a block(s) of local memory for remote access and negotiate, via communications across a first interface, with the device to determine whether the device desires receipt of the item(s). The computer program code causes the apparatus to provide, via a second interface, the item(s) of data to the device, within the proximity, responsive to a received indication from the device requesting the item(s) to enable the device to store the item(s) of data in an agreed upon block(s) of remote memory. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided.

A system that facilitates the negotiation of a standard for inter-enterprise collaboration between trading partners includes a set of meta-model elements. Each element in the set can be negotiated by enterprises and incorporated into a negotiated meta-model that describes an agreement between the enterprises as to collaborations between the enterprises. Each element in the set describes a portion of a potential standard for collaboration between enterprises. The system also includes a meta-model negotiation service that receives an indication that enterprises wish to negotiate a standard for collaborations between the enterprises and provides access to the set of elements and receive selections of one or more of the elements for negotiation and incorporation into a negotiated meta-model. The negotiated meta-model describes an agreement between the enterprises as to collaborations between the enterprises. The negotiation service facilitates negotiation of the selected elements, incorporates negotiated elements into the negotiated meta-model for collaborations between the enterprises, and communicates the negotiated meta-model to the enterprises to enable collaborations between the enterprises according to the standard for collaborations reflected in the negotiated meta-model.

Provided are computer-based systems, software, and computer-implemented methods for providing a marketplace for e-procurement that leverages asymmetric market forces to the benefit of an advantaged market participant. Such a marketplace additionally, creates a synergistic effect by offering a wide range of procurement methods.

Systems and methods are provided, which facilitate the integration of energy trading, transmission management and scheduling. The systems and methods facilitate the posting of bids and offers to buy and sell energy or capacity, allow users to view the bids and offers of others, negotiate the details of bids and offers, and permit deal formation for the purchase and sale of bids and offers. The disclosure also facilitates issuing proposals and counteroffers to enter into deals for power transmission. The disclosure also enables the scheduling of transmission including facilitating communication with various other systems. The disclosed systems and methods further enable the creation, modification and storing of transmission paths for recall and then evaluation in the scheduling of transmission path. The systems and methods are linked to and receive input from various sources of data and may facilitate two way communication with other systems in order to enable certain functionality.

A method of dynamically negotiating a transaction can include determining a potential transaction between participants according to transaction parameters stored within a transaction parameter data store. The transaction parameters can be associated with each of the participants and can specify acceptable transaction terms. The potential transactions can be evaluated according to a mutual benefit conferred on the participants by the potential transactions according to the transaction parameters. The potential transactions can be ordered according to decreasing mutual benefit; and, the potential transaction having the greatest mutual benefit can be presented to the participants.

Systems and methods are provided for conducting securities lending transactions using an electronic trading platform. In accordance with an implementation, the electronic trading platform receives, from a trader, information identifying initial terms of a transaction to lend or borrow shares of a security. The electronic trading platform may generate an instruction to broadcast the initial terms to one or more counterparties, and may subsequently facilitate negotiations between the trader and the one or more counterparties for terms of the transaction. The electronic trading platform may execute the transaction in accordance with the negotiated terms.

A method for negotiating an Internet Protocol (IP) address for an imaging apparatus connected to a network includes the steps of controlling network communication between the imaging apparatus and the network; defining an imaging state when the imaging apparatus is available for imaging, wherein during the imaging state the imaging apparatus waits in an idle state during periods of non-imaging; defining an automatic IP address negotiation state when the imaging apparatus is not available for imaging; if the imaging apparatus is in the idle state, then determining whether the imaging apparatus should leave the imaging state and enter the automatic IP address negotiation state; and when the imaging apparatus is in the automatic IP address negotiation state, then attempting to automatically assign an IP address to the imaging apparatus.

An electronic commerce system provides various features for assisting customers in locating items and generating orders from a merchant's electronic catalog, and for assisting customers and merchants in communicating about such orders, A user-definable categories feature allows customers and/or merchants to define search queries for searching the electronic catalog, and to store these search queries under user-defined category names for subsequent use. An “active quote” feature allows the customer to view and modify quantities of items selected for prospective purchase throughout various catalog browsing or viewing modes. A message audit trail feature allows a customer and a merchant to send messages to one another that are linked to a particular order, and to view an order-specific log of such messages.

The embodiment of the invention provides a method for creating a group, computer equipment and a storage medium, and the method comprises the steps: in the embodiment, sending a report page to a client logged in by a first user for display, receiving a supervision operation sent by the client, responding to the supervision operation, determining a second user which is recorded for a report page in advance and is responsible for processing a project, creating a group for the project, and adding the first user and the second user into the group, taking the first user as a person for supervising the project, and when browsing the report page, if the progress of the project has a problem, directly initiating to create the group in the report page, and adding the second user responsible for processing the project is added, so that the first user and the second user can conveniently negotiate and supervise the project, the time consumption of creating the group for the vertical field of the project is greatly reduced, and the efficiency of creating the group for the vertical field of the project is improved.