(12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 8,050,978 B2 Payton (45) Date of Patent: Nov. 1, 2011 (54) METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AN 2005/0080707 Al 4/2005 Glasspool 2222/2222222 222 22222 2222.2 ll €f G 3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. INFORMATION PRODUCTS 2007/0146772 A1 * 6/2007 Castellani 358/1.15 , 2008/0046329 A1* 2/2008 Logan ........................... .. 705/26 (75) Inventor: David W. Payton, Calabasas, CA (US) 2003/0032425 A1 4/2()()g Payton 2008/0120129 A1* 5/2008 Seubeit et al. .................. .. 705/1 Assignee: Raythegn Cgmpany, Walthmn, MA 2008/0235158 A1 Z 9/2008 Manchala Gt al. . 705/400 (US) 2009/0287532 A1 11/2009 Cohen et al. .................... .. 705/9 OTHER PUBLICATIONS ( * ) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this _ ,, _ _ _ _ _ _ patent is extended or adjusted under 3 5 Payton, David, Method and System for Prioritizing a Bidder in an U_S_C_ 15403) by 468 days, Auction”; U.S. Appl. No. 11/537,226; 27 pages, 2 pages ofdrawings, pending, Filed Sep. 29, 2006. (21) App1_ NO_; 12/394,411 “National Security and Horizontal Integration”; AFCEA International; 2004; pp. 1-13, 2004. (22) Filed, Feb, 27, 2009 ‘,‘,The,1,\/Iar1i1e,s,Mar§ifie,sto: A lf)efir,i)i,ti(,)r,ibarid ,$<;{mparison ,Z{,Coo,peri1,. 1V€ €gO 13. 1OIl C €Il'l€S Of 1S fl ll G €SOl.1fC€ OC3. 1OIl (65) Prior Publication Data l\/1aSi"tin,,Fran1E:e,i 21.; Infoironation Séiences of the University o ou ern 1 ornia, pages, opyrig . US 2010/0223148 A1 Sep. 2, 2010 * _, d b _ ci e y examiner (51) Int. Cl. _ _ _ Primary Examiner T Jeffrey A (52) U.S. Cl. .................... .. 705/26.1; 705/26.2; 705/26.3 A“"’“”’ E"‘””’”@’ " C°‘1Tm‘“~Y S‘°PP (58) Field of Classification Search .................. .. 705/26, (74) A”°’”e% Age” 0’ FW” " Baker BO“ LLP 705/ 27 See application file for complete search history. (57) ABSTRACT In one embodiment, a method for an electronic auction trans(56) References Cited action includes organizing by a computer each of a plurality of task requests into one or more respective groups. Each task U-S- PATENT DOCUMENTS request corresponds to a respective desired use of one or more 5,654,963 A 3/ 1997 Smjroldo resources. In addition, each task request has a respective task 5,721,735 A 2/1993 $II1ir01d0 bid. The computer determines a group bid for each group at Q ,]:3rr,‘,’n"i’(I,1in e, ,1, least in part by comparing the products calculated,by multi6’, 51’ 589 A ii/2000 A ' plying each first bid within the group by a respective multi, 2 ggarwaletai . . . . . . . . 6,161,099 A 12/2000 Harrington ei 31, plier. The group bid is indicative of a collective,value associ6,199,0 50 B 1 3/2001 Alaia or a1, ated with the task bids of the group. The respective multiplier 2,2592% 13% élfliilef 31- 1 is a number indicative of the comparative value of the task bid , , an orn et a . ~ ~ ~ 7,902,207 B2 * 3/2011 Boyle et al. ................... .. 705/37 fieltanve. to the other task. blqs In the Efgug The °°‘.‘1P“§§r 7,979,291 B2 >i< 7/2011 Sussman et a1, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,, 705/5 e ermliles one or more Wlnmng group 1 5 Y Companng e 2002/0107727 Al 2/2002 Mashinsky et al. group blds I0 each Other2003/0130930 A1 7/2003 Miura et al. 2005/0044032 A1* 2/2005 Lee et al. ...................... .. 705/37 42 Claims, 3 Drawing Sheets
