METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A PREBID AND PRESERVING COMMITMENT WITH BUYER INTERACTIVITY

摘要

A method and system for preserving commitment with buyer interactivities. During a first time period, each of a set one or more buyers (14A) or (14B) is required to commit to purchase a future trade (310) a quantity of business if a price is met by a set of vendors chosen by that buyer form a list of vendors (16A) or (16B) through a networ (10). Then during a second time period when bids to supply can be submitted by the vendors, each buyer is allowed to increase but not decrease the quantity, the price, each buyer is matched to one of the vendors in their set of vendors that met their price if any. Any intermediary server (12) acts as a World Wide Web server and establishes sales terms.