Automatic broker tools and techniques
CA 2388385 A1 · Owner: Ogilvie, John W.L. · Inventors: Ogilvie, John W.L.
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The invention provides sampling, escrowing and other tools and techniques for , facilitating transactions that involve digital goods (800 804). Transactions , may be of the goods-for-payment type or they may be barter transactions that exchange goods for goods. Digital goods (800 804) may be escrowed with an , automatic broker (504). The broker (504) may also create and distribute samples of the goods (802), which are created by techniques such as distorting or burdening part or all of a copy of the goods. In some cases the broker (504) may accept and act on approval or disapproval notices from the parties to a transaction, to cancel or complete a transaction. In other cases the , …
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- Filed April 18, 2000. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended April 18, 2020.
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