CN1509449A

CN1509449A - Reverse aution method and system

Info

Publication number: CN1509449A
Application number: CNA018189741A
Authority: CN
Inventors: ��ɭ��Q��; 阿里森·Q·加里克; Jd; 迈克尔·J·D·博尔特
Original assignee: Rosenbluth International Inc
Current assignee: Rosenbluth International Inc
Priority date: 2000-10-03
Filing date: 2001-10-03
Publication date: 2004-06-30
Also published as: EP1323106A1; AU1132902A; CA2424232A1; RU2003112975A; IL155148A0; MXPA03002912A; KR20040010538A; JP2004515847A; WO2002029672A2

Abstract

On-line reverse auction methods and systems are disclosed. Specifically, such methods and systems enable a buyer interested in purchasing a product or service to create a request for proposals and to upload it in a web site for access by suppliers.The suppliers submit bids by uploading them into the web site in reply to the request for proposals. The buyer as well as the suppliers may view all the bids submitted. The buyer may review bid details for bids submitted in reply to the request for proposals while a supplier may review bid details for his or her bid submitted. The bid details may be reviewed by accessing the web site. Once a bid has been accepted by the buyer or a counter offer is accepted by the seller, a confirmation of the acceptance is sent to the buyer and to the supplier that submitted the accepted bid.

Description

Reverse aution method and system

Background of the present invention

The field of the invention

The present invention relates to online auction.Especially, the present invention relates to provide the method and system of procurement service between the online commerce, it is characterized in that announcing the requirement of buyer, and coupling supplier is to satisfying bid (bid) that buyer requires service and product by the Internet.

The summary of correlation technique

Current online airline ticket auction provides the chance of competitive bidding (bid on) airline ticket to each buyer.In general, buyer specifies the stroke date, set out and arrive the city, and buyer is willing to mean the maximum amount of money of every air ticket payment.Specified information is transmitted to some airlines or agency by online auction supplier, to attempt to obtain the air ticket of selected price.

Buyer receives from the online supplier's of auction notice then, points out whether bidding of buyer is accepted by airline.In current online auction, buyer can not be directly and airline's negotiated price.And current online auction supplier is not suitable for satisfying the buyer's of company who has a mind to buy a large amount of air tickets needs.This is because in current online auction, airline ticket is fully registered.And, when by a large amount of air ticket of single buyer's single purchase, can not consult discount with airline.And the unique relevant information of considering as the part of determine accepting to bid is admission fee, thereby, at the technology demand side of the method and system that is used for auctioning to the buyer of company, and allow the seller for serving and the out of Memory of product introducing except pricing information, as the part of auction process, wherein buyer and seller can directly consult contract.

General introduction of the present invention and purpose

A kind of on-line reverse auction method and system is disclosed.Specifically, this method and system makes the buyer that will buy products ﹠ services can generate bid request, and it is uploaded to the web website for supplier's visit.Supplier answers bidding of bid request by uploading to the web website to bid to submit to.Buyer and supplier can check bidding of all submissions.

The bidding of submitting to for answering bid request, buyer can check the details of bidding, supplier can check the details of bidding for his or she bidding of submission simultaneously.Can check the details of bidding by visit web website.Accepted by buyer in case bid, or counter offer (counter offer) accepted by the seller, the affirmation of acceptance just is sent to has submitted received buyer who bids and supplier to.

An object of the present invention is to provide method and system, and they are towards the buyer's of company and allow the out of Memory of introducing except the pricing information of service or product that as the part of auction process, wherein buyer and seller can directly consult contract.And then another object of the present invention is to make buyer and seller can carry out operation (deal) and promise when concluding the business each other.In addition, another object of the present invention is to realize above-mentioned purpose by making buyer and seller consult contract by the Internet.And another object of the present invention is to announce bid request of being submitted to by buyer and the details of being submitted to by the seller of bidding on the web website, so that the process of consulting.

With regard to the following tangible these and other objects of the present invention that will become, advantage and feature by explanation detailed below reference the present invention, claims and some appended diagrams, can more clearly be understood character of the present invention here.

Brief description of drawings

Describe the preferred embodiments of the present invention in detail with reference to the following drawings, wherein:

Fig. 1 be the present invention's first method process flow diagram;

Fig. 2 A-2C is according to embodiments of the invention and method, is used to import the diagram of the user interface of user's register information;

Fig. 3 A-3D is according to embodiments of the invention and method, is used to import the travel diagram of user interface of policy information of buyer;

Fig. 4 is according to embodiments of the invention and method, is used for uploading to the web website diagram of the user interface of travelling historical data;

Fig. 5 A-5C is according to embodiments of the invention and method, is used to generate the diagram of the user interface of bid request;

Fig. 6 is according to embodiments of the invention and method, to open bid request and the corresponding demonstration of the bidding diagram of bidding;

Fig. 7 is according to embodiments of the invention and method, in the diagram of answering the details of bidding that bid request submits to;

Fig. 8 is according to embodiments of the invention and method, is used to respond the diagram of the user interface of bidding;

Fig. 9 is according to embodiments of the invention and method, is used to search for the diagram of the user interface of bid request;

Figure 10 is according to embodiments of the invention and method, from the result's that bid request is searched for demonstration diagram;

Figure 11 is according to embodiments of the invention and method, by the demonstration diagram of buyer's history of supplier visit;

Figure 12 is according to embodiments of the invention and method, the demonstration diagram of the bid request of being submitted to by buyer;

Figure 13 is according to embodiments of the invention and method, the diagram of concluding the business between buyer and the supplier;

Figure 14 is according to embodiments of the invention and method, is used to import the diagram of the user interface of bidding;

Figure 15 A-15B is according to embodiments of the invention and method, the demonstration of the bidding diagram of being submitted to by supplier when answering some bid request;

Figure 16 is according to embodiments of the invention and method, is used to realize the system diagram of reverse aution method.

These and other characteristic of the present invention and advantage will be described in following DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED, or may be obvious that from these descriptions.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED

Referring now to accompanying drawing, wherein components identical is represented with identical label, and Figure 16 illustrates a reverse auction system 1600 according to an embodiment of the invention.This system can comprise the personal computer (being buyer PC1601-1603) that is used by buyer, the personal computer (being supplier PC1604-1606) that supplier uses, at least one swap server 1610, the set of web and database server 1611, and the network (being the Internet 1612) that interconnects PC1601-1606 and server 1610-1611.

Buyer's personal computer 1601-1603 and supplier personal computer 1604-1606 can be independent personal computers.In addition, personal computer 1601-1603 can be by the Intranet interconnection of buyer company.Similarly, supplier's personal computer 1604-1606 can be by the Intranet interconnection of provider companies.

In one embodiment of this invention, buyer can be the company that buys airline ticket intentionally from supplier (for example airline).Buyer can also be represented by travel agency.

Though the function performed by server 1610, web server 1611a and database server 1611b can realize in single server unit, in order to emphasize their functions separately, they each be separated to represent.Server 1610 can include the computing machine of high speed processing data capability.Web and database server 1611a-b can comprise the computing machine of the software that operation web website and Database Systems are housed.For example, web server 1611a can be the Windows nt server, and can comprise that software is such as Microsoft InernetInformation Service, the user interface capabilities of the static html page that is used for delivering generation shown in below supporting, and be used for remaining on the data modeling of database server 1611b.Web server 1611a also can comprise and is responsible for the software that data are duplicated between database 1611b and server 1610.Database server 1611b can realize by operation Oracle`s sql server 7.0 in the Windows nt server that separates.

In system 1600, web server 1611a is as front-end server, collects and sends data to it from buyer PCs 1601-1603 and supplier PCs by the Internet 1612.Data can be stored in database server 1611b.

Swap server 1610 can be connected to web and database server 1611a by the Internet 1612.Swap server 1610 addressable data from web and database server 1611a-b.Use the data visited, swap server 1610 is carried out some functions, such as based on by the standard search bid request of supplier's input, to the ordering of bidding.

Figure 13 illustrates the high level illustration of the potential transaction that may take place as an online auction part.In the drawings, each buyer 1302 submits a RFP to.On the other hand, each supplier 1306 can respond more than one RFP.Though not shown, one more real example be that wherein each buyer submits more than one RFP to, and the vie for selling RFP of any submission of each seller.

Fig. 1 illustrates the process flow diagram that is used for carrying out according to one embodiment of present invention the method for on-line reverse auction.Step 101 comprises buyer and at least one supplier or seller's online registration.In the discussion of following Fig. 2, illustrate by the buyer or the information of selling primary input as the part of online registration 101.

In step 102, buyer can import about the information of company and travel information historical and plan.Illustrate in the discussion of following Fig. 3 A and 3B by the information of buyer input a part as step 102.

Generating step 103 buyer may be based on the bid request (RFP) of historical data.The part that historical data can be used as step 102 is transfused to, and maybe can generate automatically the record of the preference of time by keeping buyer's travelling.RFP can comprise such as travel dates, sets out and arrives at the airport, and desirable access level, the information of seat number etc., this will allow supplier to search for RFP to judge that whether this RFP is concerned about and to submit to and bid to reply this RFP (step 104).

Keep open RFP (for example buyer also accepts to answer RFP and the bid submitted to) for one, bidding of submitting to can be by submitting to the buyer and the seller that bid to check (step 105) in other words, and the activity of bidding can be checked by visit Figure 16 swap server 1610.

Step 106 can comprise for answering checking of the specific details of bidding that RFP submitted to.Describe in the discussion that is presented at following Fig. 7 of the details of bidding.

Step 107 comprises the action that can be taked by buyer as the part of reverse auction.These action can comprise recalls RFP, and refusal RFP accepts to bid or make counter offer.

Step 108 comprises the action that can be taked by supplier or seller as the part of reverse auction.These action can comprise to be accepted or refusal counter offer and counter-offering to counter offer.

In a single day reach the purchasing contract seller in step 109 and can send logo (ID) number to buyer.After having sent company's id number, transaction can be finished by buyer.

At step 110web server 1611 to buyer and won the seller who bids and transmitted notice.The affirmation of bidding according to notice and accepting.

Fig. 2 A illustrates a user interface 200 that is used to import user's register information.User interface can show on any one buyer PCs 1601-1603 of Figure 16.

Interface 200 can comprise and being used for by inputing the field that user name 202 and password 204 are logined.The affirmation that also can provide an additional field 206 to supply password.Login process can occur in actual before system's registration.In other words, new user can receive by Email and register to required login of system and password.In addition, the user can at first register and obtain then login name and password.

Fig. 2 B illustrates the field that is used in the interface 200 importing about company information.This information can comprise exabyte 208, company's classification 210, taxpayer's identification number 212 of company, the address 216 of company, city, company place, state and country (218,220,222), the phone of company and fax number (224,226), DUNS number 228, and the web site address 230 of company.

The DUNS number may be defined as Dun ﹠amp; Xiang Yi company of Bradstreet company specifies so that the number that the said firm and a specific industry etc. are associated.The DUNS number can be used among the present invention, so as to check one specific be a real company to registering signatory company.

As the part of enrollment process, buyer imports as the information of getting in touch shown in the 2C.Specifically, buyer can import his or her name 232, his or her title 234, e-mail address 236, original language 238, the information of telephone number 240 and fax number 242.

Fig. 3 A illustrates a user interface 300, is used to import buyer's contact policy information.The part that the contact policy information can be used as RFP is comprised, and can be used in seeking the RFP that its submission is bid by the seller.

Buyer can import another name 302 so that keep anonymous during online auction process.Buyer can corresponding commission merchant's number 306 together imports the title of employed commission merchant 304 when reserving travel.Commission merchant IATA number is meant the number by Air Transport Association appointment, and can be used to identify the predetermined travel agency that travels by air.And buyer can indicate current agential use whether compulsory 308.In other words, buyer can have the travel agency of a record, indication during its use can be forced to as field 308 by system of the present invention reserving travel the time.At last, if buyer does not wish to force to use current commission merchant, but wish to force to use new commission merchant's reserving travel, then buyer can indicate like this by using field 310.

Buyer can import hope less than certain hourage 312 or the lasting service class that surpasses the flight of another hourage 314.Service class can comprise tourist-class cabin, business class, or first-class cabin rank.Buyer also can specify whether wish continual flight 316.

Buyer can import the Airport information that substitutes in field 318, and in field 320 and 322 input travel mode information.Travel mode information can comprise current annual aviation amount 320 and travel by air the variation 322 of expection.Current annual aviation amount can be by annual aviation amount of dollar showing calendar year.The variation of expecting 322 that travels by air can be represented by means of the percentage of next calendar year.

Turn to Fig. 3 B now, user interface 300 also can comprise field 326, and wherein buyer indication has only certain supplier can be to the RFP competitive bidding.Can be from the airline that existing airline tabulation 324 is selected the field 326.

Fig. 3 C display field 328, buyer can import the unheeded reason of airline in the tabulation 326 therein.At last, Fig. 3 D has shown when successfully registering to the shown message of buyer.After this message has shown, send the Email that user name is arranged and confirm password to buyer.

Fig. 4 illustrates the user interface 400 that is used for uploading to the web website historical data of travelling.In the example of Fig. 4, the travelling historical data can be arranged in the file of one of any buyer PCs 1601-1603.User interface 400 provides the field 402 that is used to import travelling history file title.The travelling historical data can be used to generate RFP.RFP also can not rely on uploading of historical data of travelling and artificial the generation.

The travelling historical data of being uploaded can be restricted to the part of history of just travelling.For example, it is historical to limit travelling by regulation Start Date and Close Date.User interface 400 provides the field that is used to import Start Date 404 and Close Date 406.User interface 400 also provides and has been used to import the field (408) of the country one belongs to of purchasing the air ticket, and the future date (410 and 412) that is used to import travelling.

Can use spreadsheet program such as Excel to generate the travelling history data file.And the travelling history data file can have the regulation sequencing information, and the city is to information, airline, fragmentation count, income, and the field of the grade of service.

Ordering is meant the market ordering based on income.Sort field is filled with numeral, and one of them is a highest sequence.Income may be defined as the one way cost sum less brokerage in specific vehicle market, discount, the consumption of tax etc.

The city comprises two-way starting and target cities to field, and airline's field comprise the city between flight airline.

The fragmentation count field can be included in the segments that flies in the specific vehicle specialized market and.Segmentation may be defined as outward journey.Market may be defined as starts and target cities.Context in the hotel, market may be defined as the place in hotel.And then at the context of hiring a car, market may be defined as obtaining of car and returns the place.

The income field can comprise specific vehicle market the segmentation cost and.The service class field can be indicated based on the service class of flying in the per minute section vehicle market, this may be defined as company and spent what (for example from Philadelphia to the Dallas in 100 outward journey of tourist-class cabin, dollar outward journey cost wherein) on particular market and for the specific service rank.At this moment take in field with Bao Kuo $30,000 (100*$300.00) is as the gross income that spends on market.

Fig. 5 A illustrates the user interface 500 that is used for manually generating RFP.This user interface comprises the field 502 that is used for input style; Predetermined country 504; Start and purpose city (506 and 508); Segmentation 510; Travelling Start Date and Close Date (512 and 514); Service class 516; RFP Start Date and expiration day (518 and 520); And access control part 522.

Kind field 502 can refer to service or the product type that RFP submits to.The user interface 500 of Fig. 5 A is airline's travelling customization.The modified form of this embodiment can comprise that reflection is used for the required non-airline travel products and the RFP of service.

Predetermined national field can refer to buy air ticket the country one belongs to of airline.In field 506, buyer can specify them may wish from that or those airport.In field 508, buyer can specify them to wish airport or a plurality of airport that arrives.

Buyer can import segmentation (being outward journey) information in field 510.For example, 100 100 outward journey that the segmentation reflection is asked as the part of RFP in field 510.

Field

512 and 514 can comprise travelling beginning and the date or the date range that finish respectively.In field 516, buyer can import required service class.For example, buyer can specify tourist-class cabin, business class, or first-class cabin rank.

In field 518, buyer can import RFP can supply supplier's visit and the available date in system.Field 520 is included in the system and observes the RFP withdraw from service date for supplier.

Access control part 522 comprises from a tabulation of the airline that RFP gets rid of in user interface 500.

Fig. 5 B illustrates to use and uploads the user interface 524 that the travelling history file generates RFP.Fig. 5 C comprises the part 526 that is used to specify the historical date of travelling of using in generating RFP.And in Fig. 5 C, also illustrate from the tabulation of the RFP that uploads the generation of travelling history file.

Fig. 6 illustrates for bidding and the demonstration of the corresponding buyer RFP that bids open.Fig. 6 also illustrates three bid (624,626,628) of submitting to for single RFP.RFP produces and is endowed a RFP number 602.Except showing the RFP number, also comprise additional information about RFP.Each RFP has " effectively " state in the tabulation, and this indicates this RFP is open for bidding.Comprise " available " with effectively different a kind of states, this is meant does not receive response or bids; " response " be meant airline or submitted to and bid, perhaps to buyer's counter offer also valency; " in bid " is meant that buyer has obtained counter offer and wait-for-response; " sell " be meant the bid or bid and accept by buyer; And " refusal " is meant that bidding of being done do not accepted and bid by buyer to be closed.Other the RFP and the relevant information of bidding comprise the supplier 604 that bids, predetermined country 606, and the city is to 608, the segment number 610 that provides, the segment number 612 of request, service class 614, standard and travel dates (616,618), and RFP begins and the Close Date (620,622).

Fig. 7 illustrates the details of bidding of answering specific RFP 702 and submitting to.Each relevant state 703 of bidding, whether whether whether this can indicate this to bid is new, upgrade, counter-offered by buyer, or be rejected.The seller also can visit the details of bidding to specific RFP, and thereby can upgrade bidding of they and attempt to allow buyer accept.In one embodiment of the invention, be rejected, then submit to the unaccepted seller who bids to upgrade this and bid, or reply this RFP and submit new bidding in case bid for specific RFP.

The title of the airline of bidding is submitted in field 704 indications to.The seller promises to undertake that part can comprise price 705, percentage discount 706, and number percent returns 708, upgrades 710, and the passenger's mileage 712 that often flies.

Buyer promises to undertake that part comprises segmentation field 714, the one way journey number percent 716 that is provided, number percent income 718, and the volume of receipts 720.The segments by the per minute section price of price hurdle 705 indication that is provided by airline is provided segmentation field 714.

Number percent income 718 can comprise the number percent of the income of flower on given market that can be required by supplier, so that provide discount or encouragement.For example, supplier can be expected on particular market or the binding market (market, hotel at least), receives that 000.00 business is worth when exchanging 10% discount on these markets.In another example, but supplier's expectability receive and spend on the particular market 50% amount of money, promptly buyer spends on given market every year, 000.00, and supplier's expection obtains from buyer at least, 000.00.

Fig. 8 illustrates and is used to respond the user interface 800 of bidding.Buyer can 624 observe bidding of specific RFP number 802, and can button 804 be accepted by using, refusal or counter-offer that this is bid and answers this and bid.

Fig. 9 illustrates the user interface that the seller is shown, is used for searching for seller or the RFP that satisfies certain standard in system.User interface 900 can comprise field 904, this field allow seller based on such as by the starting or arrive at the airport of buyer's regulation, city to such standard search RFP such as, segments, service class, travel dates; Field 906, this field allow seller based on buyer's standard such as location, buyer corporate HQ, buyer travel agency, the variation of the aviation capacity of expection etc., search is from buyer's RFP.

902 couples of sellers of search field provide the option of searching for all open available RFP in the certain hour interval.At last, the seller has by clicking the option of the button 908 search RFP in the user interface 900; Perhaps by button click 910 search buyers.

RFP information can reside in the database 1611 of Figure 16, and search can be undertaken the inquiry of database is realized that these orders are included in

field

904 and 906 information as the query argument input by for example using sql command.In case to the RFP that satisfies the description each field, they can show to the seller from database retrieval.Each RFP also comprises information except the information of being used as the parameter of search usefulness by the seller.

Figure 10 illustrates the demonstration from search buyer result.Buyer can be by another name 1002 signs.Shown information can with submit to by buyer 1002 to satisfy the specific RFP of RFP search criterion relevant.This information can comprise client's aviation amount 1006, for the predetermined commission merchant 1004 of specific RFP, and general headquarters city 1008 and general headquarters state 1010.The aviation amount may be defined as expection company and spends in the total amount that travels by air in the official hour interval.For example, the annual aviation amount of company, 500,000.00 are meant, expection company will spend this amount of money on travelling by air during this year.

Figure 11 illustrates the exemplary demonstration by buyer's historical information of supplier's visit.This shown information can comprise that buyer calls 1102, by the annual aviation amount 1104 of dollar, the aviation quantitative changeization 1114 of expection, predetermined commission merchant 1106 and relevant IATA number 1112, the commission merchant forces to indicate 1108, needs predetermined commission merchant 1110, and travelling policy information 1116.The seller is addressable to tabulate 1118 by buyer at the predetermined flight of the scope on relevant historical data date.

Figure 12 illustrates the demonstration of the RFP tabulation of being submitted to by particular customer 1,202 1204.This tabulation 1204 can comprise the buyer RFP that satisfies seller's search criterion, and other RFP that is submitted to by same buyer.

Figure 14 illustrates and is used to import the interface 1400 of bidding.In case buyer identifies interesting bidding, buyer can begin to consult with submitting this seller who bids to.Can counter-offer to initial bidding as a part of buyer who consults.User interface 1400 can show by selling 1401 masters makes original bidding and counter offer 1402.When being shown to supplier, interface 1400 provides the counter offer of field 1404 with response buyer to supplier.

Figure 15 A is illustrated in and answers some RFP by supplier and submit tabulation 1502 in the progress of bidding to.Information in the tabulation can comprise RFP number 1504, buyer calls 1506, predetermined country 1508, the city is to 1510, and the segments 1512 that provides in bidding is by the initial segments 1514 that requires of buyer, service class 1516, travel Start Date 1518 End Of Tour date 1520, RFP Start Date 1522 and RFP expiry date 1524.Similarly, Figure 15 B illustrates the RFP tabulation 1526 that has finished.Tabulation 1526 comprises those RFP 1528 that regulation is sold to other supplier and those unaccepted parts of 1530.

Though the specific embodiment in conjunction with above general introduction describes the present invention, many interchangeable modified forms and distortion are tangible for those skilled in the art certainly.Thereby the preferred embodiment of the invention described above is as example, rather than restriction.Under the situation that does not deviate from the spirit and scope of the present invention, can make various variations.

Claims

1. on-line reverse auction method comprises:

Receive information to generate bid request from buyer;

Announce that in the web website this bid request is for seller's visit;

Show that to selling the buyer that advocates peace at least one of answering by at least one seller that bid request submits to bid by the web website; And

The acceptance notice of reception to one of bidding.

2. the process of claim 1 wherein that receiving the information that generates bid request from buyer comprises:

Receive service type;

Receive the Start Date of visit bid request;

Receive segments; And

Receive the expiry date of visit bid request.

3. the process of claim 1 wherein that receiving the information that generates bid request from buyer also comprises:

Reception is as airline's travelling of service type;

Receiving the airport starts and arrival information; And

Receive travel dates.

4. the method for claim 1 also comprises:

The details of bidding that shows bid request.

5. the method for claim 1 also comprises:

Reception buyer travel data in history writes down and announces this record in the web website.

6. the method for claim 5 wherein receives the information that generates bid request from buyer and also comprises:

Receive integral body travel data record, next self-recording a plurality of selections in history, reach one of self-recording single selection, to generate bid request.

7. the method for claim 5, the record that wherein receives the historical travel data of buyer comprises:

Reception is started and the purpose city;

Reception be used for start and the purpose city between the airline of travelling;

Receive flight outward journey in Official carrier's particular market and count sum;

Receive the variation of travel information expection;

Receive the summation of Official carrier's market segmentation cost; And

Receive the information of indication flight service class in the airline market of per minute section.

8. the method for claim 1 also comprises:

Between accepted buyer who bids of submission and seller, form electronic contact.

9. the method for claim 1 also comprises:

Reception is bid so that consult from buyer and seller's bid.

10. the method for claim 9 wherein receives bid and comprises the reception counter offer.

11. the method for claim 9 is wherein refused the negotiation that a bid that receives stops to bid.

12. the method for claim 10 is wherein refused the negotiation that a counter offer that receives stops to bid.

13. an on-line reverse auction method comprises:

In database, search for bid request;

The visit bid request;

Receiving first of answer bid request bids;

Other of the answer bid request that demonstration receives bid; And

When submitting to bid request side to accept to bid, send a notice to this side.

14. the method for claim 13 also comprises the bid details of demonstration for bid request.

15. the process of claim 1 wherein show the details of bidding comprise following one of at least:

Show a preface of bidding;

Show the state of bidding;

Show and make the supplier who bids;

Show price;

Demonstration is to selling the discount of purchase price lattice point;

Show the cash return message;

Show upgrade information;

Show the credit mileage;

Show the expiry date of bidding;

The display segment number;

Display segment is as the number percent of expection journey sum; And

Show income number percent.

16. the method for claim 13 also comprises:

Having observed other the seller upgrades after bidding and first bids.

17. the method for claim 13 also comprises:

Reception is from the counter offer of submitting bid request side to.

18. the method for claim 13 is wherein searched for bid request and is comprised:

Receive search criterion, this standard comprises that the city is right, airport code, segmentation number, service class, travelling beginning and Close Date, the open and expiry date of bid request, and bid request number.

19. the method for claim 13 comprises that also search has the buyer of available bid request.

20. the method for claim 19, wherein search has the buyer of available bid request to comprise:

Receive search criterion, this standard comprise following one of at least:

Annual amount of travel; Travel agency; Buyer's identification number; Predetermined commission merchant; Commission merchant IATA number; The amount of travel of expection changes; Alternative Airport information; And buyer general headquarters location.

21. the method for claim 19 is wherein visited bid request and is comprised:

Show general buyer's information, and do not show buyer's title.

22. the method for claim 19 is wherein visited bid request and is comprised demonstration buyer historical information.

23. the method for claim 19 wherein receives first and bids and comprise:

Receive price and at least below one of:

Receive percentage discount;

Receive returning information;

Receive upgrade information; And

Receive often flight passenger's mileage, provide as bonus.

24. the method for claim 19 wherein receives first and bids and comprise:

Reception is about the information of the number percent of having done valency income;

Receive the percentage of desired commercial affairs from bid based on segmentation; And

Receive the price of each segmentation; And input is by the segmentation number of buyer's trust.

25. the method for claim 14, wherein show the details of bidding comprise following one of at least:

Show a preface of bidding;

Show the state of bidding;

Show and make the supplier who bids;

Show price;

Demonstration is to selling the discount of purchase price lattice point;

Show the cash return message;

Show upgrade information;

Show the credit mileage;

Show the expiry date of bidding;

The display segment number;

Display segment is as the number percent of expection journey sum; And

Show income number percent.

26. a system that is used to carry out on-line reverse auction comprises:

Be used for device in database search bid request;

Be used to visit the device of bid request;

Be used to receive first device of bidding of answering bid request;

Be used to show other device of bidding of the answer bid request of reception; And

Be used for when submitting to bid request side to accept to bid, sending the device of a notice to this side.

27. a system that is used to carry out on-line reverse auction comprises:

Be used for receiving information to generate the device of bid request from buyer;

Be used for announcing the device of this bid request for seller's visit at the web website;

Be used for by the web website to selling the buyer's device shown of advocating peace, show by at least one seller answer bid request and submit at least one bid; And

Be used to receive device to the acceptance notice of one of bidding.