342 results about "Market transaction" patented technology

A method for providing unequal allocation of rights among agents while operating according to fair principles, comprising assigning a hierarchal rank to each agent; providing a synthetic economic value to a first set of agents at the a high level of the hierarchy; allocating portions of the synthetic economic value by the first set of agents to a second set of agents at respectively different hierarchal rank than the first set of agents; and conducting an auction amongst agents using the synthetic economic value as the currency. A method for allocation among agents, comprising assigning a wealth generation function for generating future wealth to each of a plurality of agents, communicating subjective market information between agents, and transferring wealth generated by the secure wealth generation function between agents in consideration of a market transaction. The method may further comprise the step of transferring at least a portion of the wealth generation function between agents.

An on-line health market exchange (HME) service method and system is provided which, in addition to hosting an on-line medical services auctioning system, includes interactive tools for arranging financing of successful bids, performing on-line research of proffered services and providers, as well as participating on-line in other healthcare related negotiations and transactions. The on-line HME system provides an Internet accessible web-site that acts as a “one stop” full service on-line marketplace for use by healthcare service providers and prospective consumers/patients for negotiating and consummating transactions for proffered medical/healthcare services and products. The on-line HME service also provides Internet access to customized proprietary databases and interactive tools for obtaining credentials information and for conducting on-line research concerning prospective healthcare service providers/facilities, and for making on-line payments/arrangements for healthcare/medical service financing. A personal “healthcard” product and service, analogous to a conventional debit/credit card, is supported by the HME service and made available to eligible members/users. On-line resources for reviewing and procuring various types of insurance coverage for performed medical services are also made available.

An efficient system for implementing an electronic market. The system includes a first mechanism for defining a set of attributes and associated descriptor variables involved in market transactions. Importance values are assigned to the descriptor variables by the first mechanism. A second mechanism computes match scores for the market transactions based on the importance values. A third mechanism employs the match scores to clear the electronic market. In the specific embodiment, the first mechanism includes an administrator interface, which allows an administrator to define the descriptor variables. A configurator communicates with the administrator interface and allows the administrator to assign a first set importance values to corresponding descriptor variables. The first set importance values includes default importance values or importance values assigned to the descriptor variables by a seller seeking to transact with a buyer via the electronic market. The administrator interface allows an administrator to configure a user interface of the market to allow market participants to assign a second set of importance values to different descriptor variables. The second set of importance values includes buyer and seller importance values. The descriptor variables and associated descriptor importance values may be continuous or discrete. A matching engine computes the match scores for market transactions based on a predetermined evaluation method specified via the administrator interface and based on a unique match score computation method.

An exchange trade fund comprising: an amount of a commodity trading in a spot and futures market, wherein the commodity is deposited with one or more custodians in exchange for one or more creation units as assets of the fund; wherein each creation unit represents a plurality of shares of the fund; and wherein each creation unit is redeemable for an amount of the commodity equal to the net asset value of the creation unit plus interest and less fund expenses and wherein the assets of the fund are invested in futures contracts. Also disclosed is a method for creating an exchange traded fund and a method for facilitating trading of an exchange traded fund.

The invention discloses a smart management system for energy management and electricity transaction in a virtual power plant and a method for optimizing operation thereof. A distributive energy unit serves as terminal energy and an information source apparatus of the virtual power plant smart management system, and thus a distributive resource system is formed. The virtual power plant smart management system is composed of an operation data collection and management module, an enterprise resource management, prediction and resource deployment combination module, an electricity selling plan optimization module, a transaction platform module, a real-time scheduling optimization module, and a control scheduling execution and synchronous simulation function module. According to the invention, distributive energy information management which is featured by a distributive power generation and energy storage apparatus and a flexible load device is adopted. An entire system architecture is provided for implementing all necessary function modules, such as prediction, resource combination management and deployment optimization, power supply and scheduling optimization, market transaction, real-time monitoring and scheduling. The system and method of the invention have great potential in new energy sources, distributive power generation and electricity sell, and in future power system for realizing efficient demand side power management, and in power market environment after power reform.

The present disclosure describes an apparatus and methods for performing data analysis, in particular network analysis. Specifically it provides a framework and user interface whereby raw data may be imported into a data model with entities, attributes, and relationships between the entities and multiple data analysis algorithms may be pipelined into a larger data analysis model and applied to the data model. Offline and online data visualization and data exploration techniques, may be applied to the results of the data analysis enabling real-time and near real-time interactive online analysis. Extensibility models and market transaction models are also provided.

A retail energy provider system comprising a market transaction manager, business rules and requirements processor, usage rater, customer analysis and quality control auditor, customer billing processor and collection manager, customer payment processor, third party sales and marketing application programming interface, customer acquisition and residual income interface, having a wholesale forecaster, interactive voice response system, intranet web services, internet web services and network based external customer service and executive management systems and financial services functions, all said functions and systems interacting with a robust SQL database engine for which the novel database schema is taught herein.

A spot market clearing house for clearing spot market trades. The spot market clearing house may receive data indicative of settlement for the spot market trades of a participant in a single spot market or in multiple spot markets. The data may include data indicative of initial settlement and data indicative of revised settlement amounts. The spot market clearing house may further determine performance bonds amounts based on daily exposures of the participant in the single spot market or multiple spot markets. The spot market clearing house may manage fund transfers to clear trades of the participant and to satisfy performance bond amounts.

In a market trader training method according to the invention, data representing market price as a function of time is retrieved and a visual representation of a portion of the market price data as a function of time is displayed to a user. The user inputs a response based on his prediction of the subsequent movement of the market price. An indication of whether the user's input response was in accordance with the actual subsequent movement of the market price known from the retrieved data is then displayed.

The invention discloses a transaction method based on a blockchain-based electricity market, comprising the following steps: information acquisition step: acquiring electricity transaction information and obtaining user information according to the electricity transaction information; assigning node step: searching transaction nodes from the system according to user information and Randomly select a trading node and assign it to the user; broadcasting step: send the power transaction information to all other trading nodes in the system by broadcasting; judging step: receive the results returned by all other trading nodes and make the decision according to the consensus algorithm Determine whether the transaction is successful, if so, store the power transaction information on the corresponding blockchain; result sending step: return the corresponding transaction result to the corresponding transaction node of the user, thereby notifying the user whether the transaction is successful. The invention also discloses an electronic device, a readable storage medium and a transaction device. Through the invention, the transaction in the electric power market has the characteristics of good security, high stability, simple operation and the like.

A method and apparatus for initiating, facilitating and carrying out cross-market electronic trading utilizing role of an intermediary in an otherwise traditional buyer-supplier transaction. The invention utilizes a publicly or privately accessible computer program that recognizes role of a participant as a buyer, a supplier, or an intermediary and specific trade restrictions in terms of operating locations, or trading markets, or selected participants in a particular electronic transaction. The invention presents method to extend the market reach of the transaction by further identifying network of participants in a role of an intermediary that can initiate and carry out electronic transaction across market boundaries and beyond selected participants to create higher liquidity in the marketplace. The invention utilizes computer program that dynamically routes the electronic transaction through identified participants anonymous or otherwise augmenting the transaction at each step with specifics for transacting parties in that step including but not limited to incentives for price markups. In one or more embodiments the invention also utilizes a computer program that matches different transaction parameters between a buy and a sell request along with intervention from participant playing role of an intermediary. The invention extends market reach of an electronic transaction across market boundaries, creates higher liquidity with higher participation and incentives, and simplifies cross-market logistics and regulations in an electronic marketplace through services of an intermediary.

Systems, methods, and programs consistent with the present invention use the trading price for a fungible asset established in a continuous auction market as the set price for a call auction for the asset that occurs some time after the continuous market trade that establishes the trading price. Interested participants may submit orders at the established price that will be matched with complementary orders, if any have been submitted, when the call auction occurs, and a trade will be executed.

The present invention relates to a method for finding the best match between buyers (or buyers consortiums) and sellers (or sellers consortiums), by a set of software intermediaries, and for using the information developed in those matches to define monetary and performance commitments between parties, and to create fair distribution of the benefits of the agreement among the respective participants. The system solves three related optimization problems concurrently: the optimal aggregation of individual buyers into buyers consortiums; the optimal aggregation of individual sellers into sellers consortiums, and the optimal match of requirements, posed by the buyers consortium, to offers, posed by the sellers consortium.

Disclosed are computer systems for facilitating market transactions between sellers, buyers, and carriers of perishable commodities. One system includes computer hardware that: features computer readable memory containing program code; and is organized according to client-server architecture. In the same embodiment, the hardware plus associated program code and architecture are configured for: sellers to list the prices and quantities of perishable commodities; buyers to search or bid for listed commodities by price; buyers to order listed commodities for delivery; a seller's approval of orders; buyers or sellers to list haul orders based on approved orders, wherein the haul orders identify a pickup and delivery location plus the ordered quantities of commodities; carriers to search for and provide a price quote for serviceable haul orders; buyers or sellers to approve quoted prices for a haul orders; and, buyers, sellers, or carriers to negotiate payments for approved commodities or haul orders.

The invention relates to a self-adaptive unified electric power market transaction method, which includes the following steps: (A) electricity transaction configuration: after a market subject submits transaction demand, a market organizer configures the information of the transaction; (B) market clearing calculation: the social welfare maximization is taken as an objective function, network constraints depend on the configuration information in the transaction configuration step, and the mature linear programming algorithm is utilized to carry out optimization solution; and (C) optimization algorithm detail design: the selling price and purchase price of electricity are set and converted. With an electric power transaction model as a base class and based on the concept of derivation and inheritance, the invention can flexibly customize an electric power market transaction support system according to transaction varieties, can quickly adjust or customize the corresponding algorithm when the transaction rule changes, and can be adapted to the diversity of electric power transaction varieties and the frequent change of the transaction rule. Because the invention constructs a unified algorithm library, a unified core algorithm for electric power market clearing calculation is formed, the adaptability of the market transaction support system to different transaction varieties is enhanced, and the utilization rate is increased.

The invention discloses an automatic recognition method for yellow-colored rice, which belongs to the technical field of computer image processing. The method includes: rice samples are arranged in an image collector to collect original image information; the original image information is read, and the background is separated from the rice samples; the original chrominance information R, G and B values of every grain of rice, and the R, G and B chrominance values are transformed into an even color model chromaticity value L<*>a<*>b<*> through ideal chrominance models X, Y, Z; the characteristic chrominance value b<*> is selected and determined, and if the characteristic chrominance value b<*> of every grain of rice in all pixels exceeds a chrominance threshold value and the occupying rate is larger than an area threshold value, the rice is determined to be the yellow-colored rice. The chrominance threshold value and the area threshold value are set by an operator according to the variety and the producing area of the rice. The method of the invention can be widely applied to the detection process of rice quality in rice field acquisition and market transaction, thus resulting in rapid, objective and accurate detection.

The invention discloses an operation simulation method, device and equipment suitable for an electric spot market. The method comprises the steps of opetating a case; setting a scene-oriented corresponding to the case; configuring market transaction parameters; selecting and importing basic data and operation data used for simulation into the electric spot market simulation system, and generatingsimulation boundary conditions; issuing electric power market operation information on the electric power spot market simulation system; obtaining transaction application information; performing simulation calculation of the electric power market according to the oriented scene corresponding to the case, the market transaction parameter, the simulation boundary condition and the transaction application information to obtain a simulation result; And the simulation result is evaluated and analyzed, and obtaining evaluation and analysis data of the electric spot market. The method is suitable forthe operation simulation analysis of the electric spot market, and is beneficial to reducing the decision and implementation risk of the electric spot market.

The invention provides a power market aided decision-making system comprising a basic information acquisition module, a market prediction analysis module, a transaction simulation deduction module, abid strategy evaluation module, a break-even analysis module and a transaction replay analysis module. The advantages are that the power market aided decision-making system provided by the invention becomes an independent and comprehensive closed-loop transaction aided decision-making system through the functional modules for collection and analysis of basic information related to the power market, market prediction, transaction simulation deduction, bid strategy evaluation, break-even analysis and transaction replay, provides an efficient, fast, comprehensive and systematic analysis system for market entities such as power sales companies, large users, and power generation companies in power market transactions, thereby helping the market entities to participate in the market transactionsefficiently and quickly and improving the market transaction efficiency.

Parties involved in transacting business in an E-marketplace (E-marketplace participants) each identify and submit to the E-marketplace their P3P policy and/or other relevant characteristics related to their privacy policy needs (those that they adhere to, referred to as “privacy policies”; those that they require, referred to as “privacy preferences”, or both). Submitted with the privacy policy is a digital signature that is tied to the owner of the web objects to which the privacy policy pertains. Using a digital signature assures the integrity of the privacy policy since it travels with the privacy policy and thus refers back to the original sender of the policy rather than the middleman (the E-marketplace), and if the document (the privacy policy) to which it is attached has been tampered with, the digital signature will be invalidated.

The invention discloses an energy-saving risk probability considered provincial power grid electricity purchasing decision making system. The system comprises a power plant tradable electricity quantity input unit, a random risk probability environment simulation unit, an electricity purchasing scheme generating unit and an electricity purchasing cost and energy-saving risk probability output unit. An electricity purchasing model is built inside the system, and a provincial power grid electricity purchasing scheme is obtained. According to the energy-saving risk probability considered provincial power grid electricity purchasing decision making system, the network loss factor of market transactions in an energy-saving electricity market is considered, and unit transaction electricity quantity energy-saving benefit evaluation indexes are built; with the reference of the probability risk concept, the market price, hydropower unit electricity quantity generation and randomness of system load electricity quantity requirements are considered, power grid company market electricity purchasing energy-saving risk probability indexes are built, an energy-saving risk probability considered provincial power grid electricity purchasing model is built in a randomly-planned theoretical framework for achieving optimization management of power grid company market electricity purchasing energy-saving risks, and a genetic algorithm with the dominant embedded target and the Monte-Carlo random simulation technology is adopted for solution.

The invention relates to the technical field of an agricultural trading system, in particular to a farmer's market management system. The farmer's market management system includes an agricultural product quality and safety traceability system, a farmer's market supervision system, a farmer's market transaction management system, a farmer's market management cloud platform and a market managementterminal. The farmer's market management system can trace the source of agricultural products information, grasps the dynamics of the farmer's market, manages and controls the merchants, and promotesthe management, service and supervision of the farmer's market to realize information networking, standardization of work and modernization of management.

The invention discloses a virtual item trading method and system using electronic tags, relates to the field of Internet e-commerce and communication and particularly relates to a virtual item trading method and system using electronic tags. The method and system provided by the invention can be used for overcoming the defects existing in virtual item trading technologies under the existing technical conditions. The virtual item trading system comprises a client unit, a user information management unit, a user property management unit, a trading market unit, an electronic tag management unit and a server unit; and a direct trading way is established for the supply and requisitioning parties of virtual items, so that the individually-accumulated valuable data of Internet users can be circulated, thereby satisfying the needs of other users. According to the invention, the enthusiasm of the Internet users for spreading resources possessed by the Internet users is improved by using a market trading mechanism, therefore, one the one hand, the wealth of networks is accumulated for resource suppliers, and on the other hand, the demands of the users on network resources are satisfied. Under the existing technical conditions, valuable network resources are spread less and mutually copied and duplicated much, especially the contents of virtual items are lack of transparency, and such defects reduce the credibility of resources in the process of network resource circulation. By using the method and system disclosed by the invention, one the one hand, the variety of network resource circulation is expanded, meanwhile, electronic tags are created for all circulated virtual items, a value judgment basis of virtual items is provided for buyers, and the reliability of virtual item trading is increased by using a technical means.

The invention discloses a comprehensive energy marketization transaction architecture and method based on a block chain. The blockchain technology is applied to the market transaction of each participant of the comprehensive energy. Based on the technical advantages of blockchain decentralization, openness, transparency, safety, credibility, information traceability, tamper resistance and the like, an equal credibility and information sharing marketization transaction architecture is established in the comprehensive energy system, and point-to-point energy transfer and transaction settlement of each participant are realized. According to the transaction architecture and method provided by the invention, an energy management mode from bottom to top can be formed in the comprehensive energysystem, and electricity, heat, cold and other energy supply and demand subjects can perform trusted transaction and scheduling without depending on a third party, thereby facilitating safe and stableoperation of the comprehensive energy system, improving the energy utilization efficiency and maximizing the benefits of each party.

The invention discloses an electricity selling company optimal profit method considering multiple types of loads, and the method comprises the steps of enabling an intelligent metering device to collect load data, and obtain a typical daily load curve of different types of participating loads in a current month; determining bilateral transaction electric quantity and electricity price of the totalload, and predicting spot market transaction electricity price according to the flat electricity price of different types of users; modeling the electricity price response behavior of the user basedon the peak-valley time-of-use electricity price, and constructing a profit model maximizing the profit of the electricity selling company; providing pricing strategies of three different types of users, and solving the pricing strategies by using optimization software to obtain an optimal profit strategy of the electricity selling company; responding optimal peak-valley time-of-use electricity price data, obtained by the model, of all types of users in the current month to change respective electricity utilization plans by the users through automatic demand response terminal equipment shutdown or operation power adjustment. The technical problem that existing e-commerce research content still lacks pricing strategies and income systems considering multiple types of user response behaviorsis solved.