Method for electronic online trading on electronic trading platform and automated online system for its implementation

<u>Purpose and scope.</u>

The invention relates to computer technology, in particular to methods and systems for implementing electronic commerce and auctions on an electronic trading platform.

<u>Prior art.</u>

Nowadays, methods of conducting electronic trading and electronic auctions are widely known, in particular, using the Internet. So there is a known method of conducting an electronic auction, in which, in particular, the operations of receiving data into an electronic system using input means, selecting values ​​and characteristics of the goods or services of interest, displaying these values ​​and characteristics on the display, processing data, displaying the results of data processing goods or services on display [US patent 9189815, IPC G06Q 30/08]. In turn, mention should be made of the method and system for creating an auction using a product catalog, in which the seller (electronic system) determines the conditions of the auction based on the characteristics of the goods taken from the product catalog [US patent 8095449 B2, IPC G06Q 30/06, G06Q 30/08 ].

There is also known a method and system for conducting an auction for the electronic sale of goods and / or services to a consumer, which consists in the interaction of the seller's and the buyer's devices through the auction server, the buyer determines the set of information he is interested in and the formation of his own needs, the sellers analyze the offers of competitors at the auction for a specific need, and formation of own proposals based on the identified needs of the buyer, accumulation and grouping on the auction server of all information about the buyer's needs and about the offers of the sellers in order to provide the most optimal offers from the point of view of the consumer and simplify the selection process, the buyer changes the set of information of interest, including based on the offers of sellers, execution on the system server within the designated auction period of many iterations to determine by the buyer a set of information of interest from those proposed by the sellers and many iterations for sellers to change their own offers at the buyer's request (PCT application WO 2013129962 A1, IPC G06Q 30/00, G06Q 30/08 ). The disadvantage of this method and system for its implementation is the possibility of conducting an auction only by the method of the reverse type of auction, limiting the user in choosing the number of roles of a trade participant, the inability of the buyer to select goods from a single catalog, the impossibility of direct sale and purchase, the impossibility of simultaneous participation in trade at various auction and trading platforms.

The closest in terms of the set of essential features to the claimed group of inventions is a method and system for the electronic sale of goods and services, including the collection and integration of information about offers of goods and services from suppliers in a central server device equipped with a means of communication with the servers of suppliers and computers of users of the social global information network , placing information about offers of goods and services from suppliers in a central server device and receiving requests from users to purchase goods and services, characterized in that they unify information about offers of goods and services from suppliers and demonstrate unified information in the user terminal system in the form of an electronic catalog, hosted in a central server device, and also carry out the formation of a purchase order with subsequent redirection of the user to the server of the corresponding supplier (RF patent for invention No. 2470363, IPC G06Q 30/06). The disadvantage of this method is the limitation of the user's ability to choose the number of roles of the trading participant, the impossibility of implementing the auction trading method, complicating the trading process by redirecting the user to the server of the corresponding supplier, the impossibility of sequential and simultaneous implementation of several different trading and / or auction methods.

Among the general drawbacks of the above systems and methods of carrying out electronic auctions is that the buyer does not have the ability to influence the conditions of the auction-auction and that the choice of conditions for their conduct is limited, as well as that buyers are rigidly linked to the category of the seller's customers, which excludes the possibility for both parties to the proposed transaction activity in the online trading market.

Thus, there is a need to develop such a method and system for conducting electronic online trading on an electronic trading platform between a seller and a buyer, which would overcome the disadvantages of analogues.

<u>The essence of the claimed invention.</u>

The objective of the claimed invention is to overcome the above disadvantages and expand the arsenal of technical means for the following purpose: "a method for conducting electronic online trading on an electronic trading platform and an automated online system for its implementation."

The technical result of the claimed invention is the implementation of the specified purpose.

The specified technical result is achieved by using a method for carrying out electronic online trading, which is computer-implemented, in which each stage, in whole or in part, is performed by executing machine-executable instructions in one or more processors of a computer system that includes computer devices of the service part of the electronic trading platform ( ETP), connected via communication lines with the computer devices of the users of the ETP client part system, moreover, the method includes the stages, which carry out:

- receiving and transferring data entering the system from users of the ETP system into electronic form, processing the received data by means of the ETP processor of the computing system, including at least registration of system users, at least subdivided by status into categories of sellers and buyers, their authorization and access to the ETP in accordance with the status,

- data management and their graphical display by filling in the corresponding fields of the data presentation form of the graphical user interface, located hierarchically in the ETP memory block,

- collection of information about the offers of sellers, including at least information about goods and prices for them, and combining them in a machine-readable database of the memory unit of the service part of the ETP computer system, equipped with at least one means of communication with the client computer devices of the sellers and buyers, and the formation by the ETP system of at least one catalog, which is a register of offers from sellers, at the same time, the display of the open part of the catalog is carried out through the ETP interface on the output devices of the client and service parts of the system, which differs from the prototype in that, through the ETP interface, the seller's offers include and store in the ETP memory block the data public and hidden from buyers and the acceptance conditions of sales, where public data includes a regular offer open to all users of the ETP, including at least information on the regular price for each type of product, data hidden for buyers includes, for each type of product, at least the minimum acceptable price, less than the price of the regular offer, moreover, public and hidden data make the offer open for processing by the processor of the service part of the ETP, and the procedure for their processing by the ETP is automatically determined based on the data acceptance conditions of sales, while at the stage of choosing the seller's offer for the goods by the buyer, through the ETP interface, a counter offer is received from the buyer with data on the buyer's proposed price offer, including at least the buyer's proposed price and the required quantity of goods, the data of the buyer's proposed price offer is stored in the database of the ETP system memory unit and is carried out automatically, programmatically -Hardware by means of an algorithm pre-installed in the processor, calculating the cost of the buyer's offer, a request is sent through a processing center connected to the ETP by means of communication to the buyer's bank to deposit the settlement cash on the buyer's bank card or bank account in favor of the seller or the Marketplace, if there are sufficient funds on the buyer's bank card or bank account, receive from the processing center confirmation of the buyer's cash security deposit to the ETP server and carried out by the processor of the service part of the ETP, in automatic mode, the comparison of the buyer's proposed price offer with the seller's acceptance conditions of sales, while, when the buyer's offered price is not less than the minimum permissible product price set by the seller, the buyer's price offer is automatically accepted through the ETP interface and the subsystem of integration with the processing center, form and send to the buyer and the seller a preset confirmation of the acceptance of the offer and automatically carry out a transaction to transfer the deposited cash security of the buyer to the seller's account, and when the offered price of the buyer's offer is below the minimum permissible seller price, form a preset message to the buyer through the ETP interface with the acceptance of the buyer's proposed price offer and at least a proposal to change the buyer's price offer or the order of its offer in the ETP system, while, when transmitting to the server of the service part of the ETP, through the ETP interface, information and a control command to confirm the buyer's refusal to continue trading, are carried out automatically, through the ETP processor, unblocking of the buyer's funds deposited in favor of the seller on the bank card or bank account, or carry out a reverse transaction of the buyer's deposited funds from the Marketplace account to the buyer's bank card or account.

In a preferred embodiment of the claimed invention, the seller through the interface of the ETP seller's subsystem, using the server processor, additionally generates rules for accepting the buyer's offers, the proposed price of which is equal or slightly higher than the minimum allowable price set by the seller, the server stores them in the database of the ETP memory block and initiates automatic mode upon occurrence of the specified event. At the same time, the acceptance of the buyer's offers, the proposed price of which is equal or slightly higher than the minimum permissible seller's price, is carried out selectively according to the lottery principle, the parameters of which are set by the seller through the ETP interface and are stored in the database data structure of the ETP memory block as marker events that cause predefined in the processor procedures for acceptance or refusal to accept the buyer's price offer on the basis of a lottery.

In another embodiment of the invention, the seller additionally sets the minimum minimum price of the product, which is closed to the buyer, less than the minimum acceptable price. Moreover, in a possible embodiment, the seller additionally sets the parameter, which is closed for buyers, of the minimum number of buyers' offers and the parameter of the portfolio amount of these offers, which can be accepted at the minimum minimum price of the goods or in a price range not less than the minimum minimum price and below the minimum allowable price, installed by the seller.

Then, in another possible embodiment of the invention, with the offer and sales acceptance rules preset by the seller, if the buyer's proposed price offer corresponds to the seller's price range below the minimum allowable, but above the minimum minimum price, the ETP processor generates and sends to the buyer a preset message with a proposal to choose the offer mode with waiting, and upon confirmation of the choice of this mode by the buyer, sent to the server via the ETP interface, the server automatically, using the processor, generates and sends to the processing center a pre-installed control command for preliminary acceptance of the offer, waiting for and debiting the funds corresponding to the offer declared by the buyer from the buyer's bank card or bank account to the ESCRO account of the ETP, assigns a personal number to the payment, generates from using the processor and forwards the transaction message to the customer; based on the agreement of the offer mode with the expectation, the server aggregates, using the processor, the buyers' offers in the specified price range into the portfolio offer; automatically, when the number of buyers' offers and their minimum portfolio amount preset by the seller on the server reaches the number of offers of buyers and their minimum portfolio amount, they carry out, through the processor, the acceptance of price offers of the portfolio offer and one or more electronic transactions between the ETP and the seller, form and send a preset confirmation of acceptance of the offer to buyers of the portfolio offer, and concluding a transaction for the sale of goods, while, upon confirmation of the completion of the transaction, a transaction of the deposited funds is carried out from the ETP account to the seller's account.

At the same time, in a possible embodiment, a time limit is set for the formation of a portfolio offer of buyers' offers, corresponding to the parameters of an offer with an expectation, and in case of incomplete formation of a portfolio of buyer's offers for a preset waiting period, the ETP processor automatically generates at least notifying the buyers of the portfolio offer about the refusal to accept the offered price offers and initiates a control signal to unblock the deposited funds of buyers on the ETSC account of the ETP and their transaction to a bank card or bank account of buyers of the portfolio offer.

In another embodiment, upon refusal to accept the buyer's offer, the server simultaneously generates a preset message to the buyer with a proposal to increase the offered price or complete the auction, while, upon confirmation by the buyer of the completion of the auction, the server initiates and sends a control command to the processing center to unblock the deposited funds at the bank the buyer's card or bank account, carried out at the stage of offering the buyer's price offer or returning the funds transferred to the ESCRO account of the ETP at the stage of preliminary acceptance of the offer with waiting.

Moreover, in a preferred embodiment of the claimed group of inventions, at the stage of forming the terms of acceptance of sales, the seller additionally sets, through the ETP interface, and saves using the processor in the ETP memory module database, the quantitative parameter of the minimum bidding step by which the buyer's proposed price can be increased. At the same time, the minimum bidding step corresponding to the step permissible in the ETP system for changing the offered price of the goods by the user is indicated in the ETP server message sent to the buyer and / or displayed on the display device of the buyer's computer device using the ETP interface.

According to any of the possible embodiments, the reception and transfer of the external data of users of the ETP system entering the system into electronic form, as well as the registration of users in the system can be carried out by means of the processor of the computer system of the ETP of its service part. At the same time, preferably, at the stage of forming the user's account, user data is formed into a set of formalized, hierarchically interconnected data areas and stored on a machine-readable medium of the ETP memory block, in the user database, and the data management and graphical display is carried out by filling in the corresponding fields presentation forms of graphical user interface, arranged hierarchically.

In another possible embodiment of the invention, the comparison of the buyer's price offer with the acceptance conditions of sales of the seller's offer is carried out according to the quantity of goods, the total amount of the batch and the offered price of the buyer with the minimum permissible and regular offer set by the seller at the price of the goods for the amount of goods specified by the buyer, and when at the stage of comparison of the buyer's offer with the seller's acceptance conditions, the offered price of the buyer's offer is lower than the minimum permissible seller's price, a preset message is generated to the buyer through the ETP interface with a refusal to accept the buyer's proposed price offer and, at least, an offer to increase the offered price of the goods for implementation acceptance, and / or refusal to accept the buyer's price offer, and / or putting the previous price offer into standby mode, and / or forwarding the price offer to another seller of similar goods included in the ETP catalog.

The claimed technical result is also achieved by using an online trading system for implementing the above method, which is a computer system equipped with a software and hardware complex and containing at least computer devices of the service and client parts, interconnected by communication lines, the functionality of which is to implement the purpose systems are provided with at least preinstalled on the programmable processor of the service part of the ETP by the algorithms of the software part of the software and hardware complex of the ETP, logically connected with the programmable processors of the computer devices of the system, equipped with preinstalled software, with the possibility of automatic implementation of the algorithm for making decisions of the ETP upon the occurrence of the preset software and hardware in memory ETP events, where the service part at least is equipped with one ETP server, including at least a central programmable processor with preset algorithms for the software part of the ETP software and hardware complex and functional software, at least providing the formation and display of a catalog of vendors 'offers and ETP users' offices, a memory module associated with a central processor and a security module, as well as a storage system for bidders' data, connected to a central processor, a memory module, and also containing a communication interface with a set of bidders and a central processor, moreover, the system forms a two-tier sales system, where the data storage system contains at least data of two groups of bidders with the status of a seller and a buyer, including, at least, identification information about the participant, his ID in the system, which determines his status and restrictions on access to system resources, while, the memory module contains the software and hardware subsystems of the seller and the buyer, a subsystem for determining the terms of the transaction, as well as a settlement and cash subsystem connected through communication channels with the security subsystems and integration with the processing center, moreover, the seller's subsystem contains public and hidden data about the seller's offers where the public data contains at least information about the conditions of sale and a regular price offer, according to which the seller makes a public offer for the sale of goods on his portal and / or ETP, and the hidden data contains at least data on the minimum allowable price of the goods set by the seller, less than the regular offer price and the minimum minimum price less than the minimum allowable rate, with the minimum minimum the price is functionally related to the parameter of the minimum number of offered price offers of buyers and the parameter of the portfolio amount of these offers, set by the seller, the buyer's subsystem contains at least the proposed price of the goods set by the buyer for the goods and details for payment and / or deposit of funds for accepting the seller's offer, and the sales levels are formed by the subsystem for determining the terms of the transaction, containing, at least at the first level, conditions sales acceptance, including at least conditions for the acceptance of the offered price offers of buyers according to the belonging of the offered price of the buyer to a price range higher than or equal to the minimum price of the goods set by the seller, and at the second trading level, including at least the procedure for accepting the buyer's offer according to the belonging of the offered price to a range below the minimum, but above the minimum the minimum price of the goods set by the seller.

At the same time, in a preferred embodiment, at the first trading level, the seller's subsystem additionally contains a setting parameter for the bidding step, with a predetermined minimum step for changing the price of the goods by which the proposed cent of the goods of the buyer's price offer can be increased by preselecting the offered price of the buyer below the minimum allowable price, installed by the seller, and the subsystem for determining the terms of the transaction contains the conditions for starting this procedure and coordinating it with the processing center. At the same time, in another embodiment, at the first trading level, the seller's subsystem additionally contains the lottery settings for accepting buyers' offers, the offered price of goods of which is less than the regular offer of the seller and is equal to or exceeds the minimum permissible price of goods set by the seller, and the subsystem for determining the terms of the transaction contains conditions for starting this procedure and agreeing it with the processing center.

In another embodiment, at the second trading level, the transaction conditions determination subsystem contains the conditions for accepting offers with waiting based on the minimum minimum price of the goods preset in the seller's subsystem and the minimum amount of goods that can be sold at a given rate for the time preset in the ETP. and agreeing with the processing center the procedure for transferring funds to the seller and / or the ESCRO ETP account from the buyer's bank account upon preliminary acceptance of the offer.

<u>List of drawing figures</u>

The claimed group of inventions is illustrated by the following illustrative materials, where:

Fig. 1 - online electronic trading system

2 is an example of a possible data storage structure.

Fig. 3 is a flow chart of the transaction process.

It should be noted that the attached schematic solutions illustrate only one of the most preferred embodiments of the group of inventions and cannot be considered as limitations on its content, which may include other possible embodiments of the claimed group of inventions.

<u>Feasibility of the invention</u>.

According to the claimed invention, an electronic trading platform (ETP) is a computer system containing a hardware and software complex (HSC), and consisting of a service (preferably containing a server part of the system) and client parts, interconnected by communication lines, the functionality of which to implement the purpose of the system, are implemented through the execution of pre-installed algorithms of the software part of the ETP hardware and software complex, using, for example, a programmable processor. In accordance with the purpose of the ETP, the system can be implemented as an electronic trading platform containing an electronic catalog of goods and sellers of the specified goods, which is a set of pre-installed software and hardware algorithms running on the website.

The set of hardware and software PAK and the ETP system implemented in the claimed solution of the invention, which will be described below, allow the buyer to remotely select the seller from those presented in the catalog and buy the required product offered by one of the sellers, by choice, on their own terms, which may coincide in the seller's offer (offer) or be close to it, or representing a compromise between the seller's and the buyer’s offer, the rules of acceptance of which are preset in the ETP and are provided by the ETP system in automatic mode.

According to the claimed group of inventions, pre-installed, as a rule, in the programmable processor of the service part of the ETP, software-implemented algorithms for processing the data of system users allow the buyer to offer, in the form of an offer secured with money, to the selected seller presented in the ETP catalog, his proposals for the price of the goods he needs and its quantity ( consignment). Organization of access to the electronic trading financial platform in accordance with the status of the user of the ETP system, subdivided at least into sellers and buyers, allows the buyer to enter the information about himself necessary for the implementation of a trade transaction (purchase of goods), including at least identification data the buyer and information about the details of his account (bank card or bank account). According to the algorithms pre-installed in the software and hardware in the ETP, the buyer is obliged to provide his price offer (offer) with a certain amount of money, having deposited this amount for a while on his account, for example, with a bank card. At the same time, if the seller through the Trading Platform (ETP) accepts the proposed price offer of the buyer in relation to the goods chosen by him and its quantity (batch), the transaction is made in the form of the buyer's offer acceptance confirmed to the buyer and the seller, generated and sent by the ETP automatically when compliance of the buyer's price offer with the terms of acceptance of sales preset by the seller.

The amount deposited, in order to secure the proposed price (purchase) offer, of the buyer's funds, is preferably tied to the offer amount and can be both full coverage of the buyer's offer amount and its partial security (for example, it can be from one to ten percent of it), and serves as a guarantee that the buyer, having received automatic approval of the ETP for acceptance of the transaction on the buyer's terms, does not refuse to complete it.

Implemented as part of the claimed group of the invention, the ETP software and hardware complex allows the seller to offer goods by setting in the ETP system its terms of the sale offer and the acceptance terms of sales, independently, independently and secretly for potential buyers. These acceptance conditions include such parameters as the minimum acceptable price for a seller for a certain type of product and a batch of this product, as well as a set of other possible specific requirements for a future potential buyer, for example, terms of delivery of goods, for example, terms and territorial restrictions and / or delivery terms, etc. The specified conditions of the seller's offer and the conditions of its acceptance are stored in the memory unit of the service part of the computer system of the ETP and determine the conditions for starting a preset algorithm for processing data on the counter offers of the buyer in automatic mode, without the participation of ETP users.

At the same time, the set of ETP software and hardware provides automatic analysis and comparison of the buyer's counter purchase price offer (buyer's price offer) with the seller's offer for this product (for example, the terms of acceptance of sales).

The buyer's price offer and the seller's acceptance conditions for sales are entered into the ETP database, and the ETP system automatically analyzes their correspondence to each other. At the same time, the ETP at the stage of comparing the offers of the buyer and the seller, including the terms of acceptance of the buyer's offer pre-established by the acceptance conditions of sales, analyzes the compared offers of the buyer and seller in terms of the amount and the required quantity of goods. Both offers are submitted by the parties to the future transaction on the ETP independently of each other.

Thus, the seller non-publicly entering information about his offer, including the acceptance conditions of sales, delegates to the ETP the right to accept the transaction for the sale of goods on these terms in automatic mode, without direct participation on his part.

At the same time, the buyer, entering information about his price offer, secured by depositing funds in his account, also delegates to the ETP the right to accept the transaction for the purchase of goods on these conditions in automatic mode, without direct participation on his part.

Thus, in accordance with the claimed invention, the ETP, in essence, in automatic mode, performs the functions of an independent escrow agent authorized by the parties and performs on their behalf, on the processing algorithms preinstalled in the system for processing the data entered by users, or accepting the buyer's price offer, autonomously, without participation of users of the system, or decides to refuse to accept the buyer's offer.

According to the claimed invention, the ETP, based on the implemented software and hardware solutions, actually prepares and carries out the sale and purchase transaction of the goods selected by the buyer. The seller and the buyer, independently of each other, enter their requirements (offers) into the system of the Trading Platform (ETP), as a set of data for analyzing the ETP by software and hardware preinstalled for this purpose.

The ETP system is designed to further attract individuals and legal entities to purchase a wide range of goods, based on their material capabilities and wishes. The buyer is traditionally looking for an opportunity to purchase the goods he needs at the most favorable price for him. All modern Internet resources offer the buyer different ways to find what he needs. With different prices, from different manufacturers and with different terms of sale. All these resources are in one way or another set up to facilitate the process of finding a service, building customer loyalty, and heating up his motivation to buy. One way or another, they offer the buyer to respond positively and accept with his money the public offers of the sellers online, or as a result of a personal appeal to the seller, agree to his terms or reject them.

According to the claimed invention, the ETP allows the buyer online to make the seller a counter price offer, provided with his own funds, for the purchase of goods presented in the public (displayed for all ETP users on the computer devices of the client and service parts of the system). At the same time, the ETP system is designed in such a way that online it automatically reacts to the price offer made by the buyer, accepts it on behalf of the seller or rejects it on behalf of the seller due to the low price offer of the buyer. Fundamentally important and unique in the work of the ETP is that the analysis and processing of the buyer's offer occurs only after the buyer provides the proposed purchase price offer with funds on his account in favor of the seller or their transfer in the amount of the offer to the escrow account of the ETP.

If the buyer's offer (his secured offer) is automatically rejected by the ETP system, the system invites the buyer to make a new, more generous price offer to the seller, or make an offer similar in parameters to another seller, the ETP participant. Or refuse attempts to accept the offer. In the latter case, all deposited money of the buyer in the amount of his secured offer is "unfrozen" by the system and becomes available to the buyer again.

In accordance with the claimed group of inventions, the seller's offer includes public and hidden data, as well as the acceptance conditions of sale, where public, i.e. data open to all users of the ETP includes the seller's regular offer for a certain product, containing at least information about the regular price for each type of product, and hidden from buyers and other sellers, in addition to the initiator of this seller's offer, but available for data processing by the system ETP, offer, contains at least the minimum acceptable price of the goods, which is less than the price of the regular offer, according to which the seller admits the possibility of its implementation. Whereas the acceptance conditions of sales establish the possibility of accepting the proposed price offers of the buyer in relation to the boundaries of the price range established by the public and hidden part of the data of the seller's offer. The offer data entered by the seller through the interface of the ETP software and hardware complex are stored in the user database of the memory unit of the service part of the ETP and later, when processing the buyer's offer data, are accepted by the ETP system as marker values ​​that cause the launch of preset algorithms for the data processing system and ETP decision making on the compared seller's offers and the buyer. If the acceptance conditions of sales set by the seller coincide with the requirements of the buyer, which he also independently and independently of the seller enters into the ETP system user database, the ETP system processor activates the transaction process. The regular price set by the seller for a certain product, as a rule, is the price at which the seller sells the specified product on the market, in the systems of a real trading network, or by posting the price (cost) of the product on the Internet, for example, on his website. The entry by the seller of the value of the minimum allowable price of goods into the ETP System, as already mentioned, is confidential. The buyer does not see information about its size on the display device of the client part of the ETP system. Thus, if the buyer is interested in purchasing goods at a more favorable price, focusing on the size of the seller's real offer for the goods, he can only offer his own offer, secured with his own money, and wait for the seller's reaction to this offer through the pre-established actions of the Marketplace, assuming that the conditions of the proposed offer will comply with the acceptance conditions of sales established by the seller. Thus, the ETP creates a system that is safe for users, in which the process of selling goods is carried out on an adversarial basis, providing mutually beneficial conditions for the buyer and seller to buy / sell goods.

For sellers of goods, the claimed group of inventions that implements the ETP system and the method of online trading with its help is an additional opportunity to profitably sell their goods and attract new customers.

For potential buyers, the ETP system is a real additional opportunity to purchase the required product, selected by the seller at an acceptable price.

Thus, a buyer who wants to purchase a specific product or a batch of this product feels like the main subject on the ETP. He enters into the system his proposed price of the goods, reflecting, in essence, the maximum allowable price for the goods or the batch of the given goods and other data necessary for registration. If the price offers offered by the buyer are lower than the minimum allowable price set by the seller's offer and pre-entered into the system, then the ETP refuses the buyer in the transaction on behalf of the seller. At the same time, the buyer can make an unlimited number of offers (offers), increasing his price offer until his offer is higher or corresponds to the minimum permissible price of the goods established by the seller's offer.

The ETP system in accordance with the present invention can use various hardware-implemented components (for example, memory elements, modules and data processing elements, logic elements, etc.) that can perform various functions under the control of one or more programmable microprocessors or other devices management.

The program code that implements the operation algorithm of the ETP, according to the claimed invention, can be implemented using any programming language, such as C, C ++, Java, ASP, PHP, PERL and are implemented with various algorithms and any combination of data structures, functions, processes, procedures or other programming elements known from the prior art. Moreover, the present invention can be implemented using various methods of data transmission and processing known in the art.

Communication between the participants (users) of the ETP system according to the present invention is achieved using any suitable communication means known in the prior art for similar electronic trading platforms, such as: telephone network, switched telephone network, intranet, Internet, extranet, etc.

Users can interact with the ETP system and its computer devices of the service and / or client side through any input device, such as: keyboard, mouse, personal digital assistant, pocket computer, cell phone. In addition, the invention can be used in combination with any type of personal computer running any operating system known from the prior art (for example, Windows, MacOS, OS / 2, BeOS, Linux, UNIX and others).

In addition, the present invention can be implemented on the basis of a software and hardware solution (complex), where the computer software product, the software part of the PAC, can be executed in the form stored on a storage medium having a computer-readable program code embodied in the storage medium. Such computer-readable storage media can be hard disks, CD-ROMs, optical storage devices, magnetic storage devices, and / or the like.

It should be understood that the functional blocks described herein, block diagrams, or combinations thereof, are implemented using algorithms (instructions) of a computer program in a software-hardware manner. These computer program instructions can be downloaded to a general-purpose computer, specialized computer, or other device, for example, a programmable microprocessor, with software processing of data to execute algorithms for executing the instructions associated with them, so as to create conditions for the implementation of the functionality specified in block or block block diagrams.

These computer programs, algorithms, or source codes can also be stored in computer-readable memory such that instructions that are executed on the computer provide steps to implement the functions specified in the block or blocks of the block diagrams.

As used herein, the term "online" refers to interactive communication that takes place between participants located at a distance from each other, including messages through any of the networks or communications that have been described above.

The term "System" means a hardware and software complex that forms the information system on which the ETP operates.

The data structure (Fig. 2) is one of the options for storing the data array of the Trading Platform (ETP) in the form of a relational model.

The term "Seller" denotes the status of a user of the ETP system and includes any individual, legal entity, charitable organization that produces, distributes, provides and sells for money goods that can be offered to the buyer directly or indirectly through the Trading Platform (ETP).

Within the framework of a technical solution, this is a category of users, the identifier (ID) of which is stored in the data structure as a seller ID and serves to identify sellers, their goods and orders.

The term "Buyer" denotes the status of a user of the ETP system and includes any individual, legal entity, charitable organization that can buy, offer to buy online or offline, goods supplied and offered by sellers on the Trading Platform (ETP).

Within the framework of a technical solution, this is a category of users, the identifier (ID) of which is stored in the data structure as a customer ID and serves to identify customers, their quotations and their orders.

"User ID" is a unique digital identifier in the data structure that allows the system to identify the user.

"Browser" - application software for viewing web pages; the content of web documents, computer files and their catalogs; web application management; as well as for solving other problems. On the global web, browsers are used to query, process, manipulate and display the content of websites.

The registration data of sellers and buyers is stored in the data structure (1) and (2). In addition to ID, may include: (1) the name of the organization, its address, payment details, etc. (2) Name, surname, delivery address for goods and documents, vouchers, social security number, email address, credit card number and others required data.

The term "First level of trading" is the level of the ETP system and the stage of implementing the online trading method, at which the buyer enters his proposed (purchase) price for the seller's goods in the form of a proposed purchase price offer, having previously deposited funds in his account in the amount of his purchase offer. The system automatically accepts or rejects this purchase offer (online).

The term "Second trading level" is the level of the ETP system and the stage of implementing the online trading method, at which the buyer enters his offered (purchase) price for the goods after his first proposed price offer has been rejected by the system. The buyer can, if the offered price is important to him, and not the time of purchase, transfer his money in the full amount of his proposed price offer to the ESCRO account of the Trading Platform (ETP). And waiting for a reaction from the ETP is a period of time preset by the software and hardware in the system, for example, but not less than a day. Such a proposed buyer's offer is defined in the system, within the scope of the claimed invention, as "Offer with expectation". In this case, the buyer expects that the seller after some time will lower the minimum allowable price and the buyer will be one of the first whose proposed purchase offer will be accepted by the System. The system analyzes such an Offer with an expectation of the entire predetermined period, constantly comparing it with the offer of the seller, who has the ability to make adjustments to his sales offer at any time. (For example, an office equipment seller who has decided to change the model range of his products is in a hurry to sell the remaining batch of the previous model range at a reduced price before the upcoming presentation of the new item. In other words, the closer the expiration date, the lower the price).

The term "Regular Quotation" means an open offer of the seller at the selling price of the goods, containing the regular price preset by the seller for the goods, which can be obtained from public sources. This information is available to the buyer who is preparing to make a counter-price offer to the seller and is a starting point for him to analyze the seller's offer and compare the offers of different sellers in the ETP.

The term "Regular Price" means the price for an item at which it is sold on a regular seller's site. This price is necessary for the Buyer for comparison and analysis when he prepares to make a purchase offer to the Seller.

The term "Minimum acceptable price" (minimum price) means the price for the goods, which the seller entered in advance in the ETP, as the minimum possible for sale. The minimum allowed price is below the regular price set by the seller for each item. The minimum permissible seller's price is not visible to the buyer and other ETP users who are not the initiators of the seller's regular price offer. These conditions are stored in the ETP user database and are the conditions for acceptance of the buyer's proposed price offer, implemented in the ETP data processing algorithm.

The term "Offered Price" means the price for the goods that the buyer offers to the seller on the margins of the Marketplace (ETP).

The term "Proposed price offer" is a buyer's offer containing the offered price of the goods and information on the quantity of the purchased goods. The buyer's offer may also include other information characterizing the offer to purchase the goods, for example, the terms and conditions of delivery of the goods, etc.

The term "Offer with expectation" means a purchase offer of the Buyer, fully paid to the ESCRO account of the Marketplace, who is ready to wait for a specific period for the response of the ETP to its offer. The system invites the buyer to make an “Offer with Expectation” if his previous secured offer to the seller, after price analysis, was rejected by the system at the First trading level.

The term “Pending Offer Acceptance” means the system's approval of the proposed price offer of the Buyer, whose money is actually kept in the ESCRO account of the Trading Platform pending acceptance.

The term “Minimum minimum price” means the price for which the Seller is ready to sell his goods only if a total pool of Offers is formed with an expectation in such quantity that suits him (Minimum quantity).

The term “Minimum Quantity” means such a number of Pending Offers that can be accepted by the system at the Minimum Minimum Price at one time, together (in bulk).

The online trading system for implementing the claimed method of selling goods online, in the presented embodiment, preferably, is a computer system equipped with a software and hardware complex and containing at least computer devices of the service and client parts, interconnected by communication lines, the functionality of which to implement the purpose of the system are provided at least preinstalled on the programmable processor of the service part of the ETP, algorithms of the software part of the software and hardware complex of the ETP, logically connected with the programmable processors of the computer devices of the system, equipped with preinstalled software, with the provision of the possibility of automatic implementation of the algorithm for making decisions in the ETP upon the occurrence of preset software and hardware in memory ETP events. At the same time, the service part is equipped with at least one ETP server, including at least a central programmable processor with preset algorithms of the software part of the ETP software and hardware complex and functional software, at least providing the formation and display of a catalog of offers from sellers and ETP user offices, memory module connected to the central processor and security module, and also a system for storing the data of the bidders connected with the central processor, memory module, and also containing the communication interface with the set of bidders and the central processor.

At the same time, the system forms a two-level sales system, where the data storage system contains at least the data of two groups of bidders with the seller and buyer status, including at least identification information about the bidder, his ID in the system, which determines his status, and restrictions on access to system resources.

The memory module contains the software and hardware subsystems of the seller and the buyer, a subsystem for determining the terms of the transaction, as well as a settlement and cash subsystem connected through communication channels with the security subsystems and integration with the processing center.

The seller's subsystem contains public and hidden data about the seller's offers. Public data contains at least information about the conditions of sale and a regular price offer, in accordance with which the seller makes a public offer for the sale of goods on his portal and / or ETP, and hidden data contains at least data about the minimum set by the seller acceptable price of goods, less than the price of the regular offer, as well as the minimum minimum price less than the minimum allowable, moreover, the minimum minimum price is functionally related to the parameter of the minimum number of offered price offers of buyers and the parameter of the portfolio amount of these offers set by the seller.

The buyer's subsystem contains at least the offered price of the goods set by the buyer for the goods and details for payment and / or deposit of funds for accepting the seller's offer.

The levels of sales, in accordance with the claimed invention, are formed by a subsystem for determining the terms of the transaction, containing, at least at the first level, the terms of acceptance of sales, including at least the terms of acceptance of the offered price offers of buyers according to the belonging of the offered price of the buyer to a price range higher than or equal to the minimum the price of goods set by the seller, and at the second level of trade, including at least the procedure for accepting a buyer's offer if the offered price belongs to a range below the minimum, but higher than the minimum minimum price of the goods set by the seller.

In a particular case, at the first trading level, the seller's subsystem contains a parameter for setting the bidding step, with a preset minimum step for changing the price of the goods by which the offered cent of the goods in the buyer's offer can be increased by preselecting the buyer's offered price below the minimum acceptable price set by the seller, and the subsystem determining the terms of the transaction contains the conditions for starting this procedure and agreeing it with the processing center.

Also, at the first trading level, the seller's subsystem can be additionally equipped with lottery settings for accepting offers from buyers whose offered price of goods is less than the seller's regular offer and is equal to or exceeds the minimum permissible price of goods set by the seller, and the subsystem for determining the terms of the transaction contains the conditions for starting this procedure agreeing it with the processing center.

At the same time, at the second level of trade, the subsystem for determining the terms of the transaction contains the conditions for accepting offers with waiting based on the minimum minimum price of the goods preset in the seller's subsystem and the minimum amount of goods that can be sold at a given rate for the time preset in the ETP. and agreeing with the processing center the procedure for transferring funds to the seller and / or the ESCRO ETP account from the buyer's bank account upon preliminary acceptance of the offer.

In accordance with the present invention, in the block diagram of FIG. 1 shows a diagram illustrating an exemplary version of the functioning of the ETP system, which, in this embodiment of the invention, contains the Seller's Subsystem (100), the Buyer's Subsystem (101), the Subsystem for determining the terms of the transaction (102), the Subsystem for integration with the processing center (103), the Base data (104), Security subsystem (105), Cash settlement subsystem (106)

The database (104) receives and stores data about system users, services, orders, and other necessary data for the normal functioning of the System. The database can be any type of database, such as relational, hierarchical, object-oriented, and the like. The database (104) can be organized in any suitable way, including data tables or look-up tables.

Authorization and authentication of users, as well as their rights or roles in the system, is carried out using the Security Subsystem (105). After the user enters the username and password into the data entry form, the Security Subsystem first identifies the user by the username and password stored in the data structure (1) and (2). By comparing the password entered by him with the password stored in the user database, the System then performs authorization by checking the rights and roles assigned by the Security Subsystem automatically or by the System administrator. The rights system settings are stored in the data structure (6). When a user works in the System, the Security Subsystem controls the user's actions and provides functionality in accordance with his role.

Seller's subsystem (100) is a component part of the trading platform, through which the seller enters into the system all public information about his product, the conditions of its sale. Open information about a product includes all the information necessary for its identification: brand, name, article, model, size, parameters, specifications, color, etc.

The seller, through the seller's subsystem, also generates the closed parameters of his sale offer: “minimum acceptable price”, additional “random lottery settings”, “step” settings (for the first trading level), “minimum minimum price”, “minimum quantity” (for the second level trade).

The confidentiality of the information entered by the seller is ensured by the security subsystem by determining access rights by user ID. By entering the listed data into the subsystem, the seller forms his own sales "acceptance conditions" necessary for the system to analyze the purchase offers of buyers on behalf of the seller. so that the system can either accept buyers' offers or refuse them. the seller's acceptance conditions form the work of the trading platform at the first trading level and at the second trading level.

The seller enters, through the seller's subsystem, the “regular price of the product” and the “minimum acceptable price” for the product, where the “minimum acceptable price” cannot exceed the “regular price” (the first level of trade).

The seller enters through the seller's subsystem the number of goods that “disappear” and can be sold at the “minimum acceptable price” (the first level of trade).

The seller enters, through the seller's subsystem, the “minimum minimum price” for the goods at the second trading level, where the “minimum minimum price” cannot exceed the “minimum acceptable price” and “regular price” set by the seller.

The seller enters through the seller's subsystem data on the required "minimum quantity" of goods. “Offers with pending” made and paid to the ESCRO account of the Trading Platform (ETP) with buyers' money are summed up by the system at the second trading level. these pending offers form a certain amount - the current portfolio of buyers' offers. This number of pending offers must exceed the “minimum amount” of goods that the seller wants to sell at a new, even lower “minimum minimum price”. That is, the seller binds the minimum acceptable price for him to the minimum number of offers for his product. For example, a salesperson can sell for $ 10 one pair of out-of-fashion sneakers only if there are 10,000 buyers of these sneakers, and as a result, he will get rid of all his unfashionable surplus at once. At the same time, 50 buyers purchasing goods for $ 10 are not of interest to the seller. This can be compared to a wholesale sales condition. This information from the seller is necessary for the system for the possible acceptance of the offer with the expectation of or for refusal to accept it. Product data is stored in a data structure (3), and offer data with an expectation in (7).

As already mentioned, descriptive, advertising data characterizing the goods is made publicly available on the Trading Platform for the review of buyers.

"Minimum acceptable price", "Minimum minimum price", "Minimum quantity" of goods, as the basic conditions of the seller's sale offer, are "secret" for buyers. These data are necessary for the system to analyze the buyer's offer by means of a subsystem for determining the terms of the transaction at the first trading level, where the buy offers are secured by the money deposited on the buyer's account and at the second trading level, where the purchased, offered price offers with the buyer's expectation are secured by the fact that the buyer's money is transferred to the amount of his offer to the ESCRO account of the Trading Platform (ETP).

All subsystem data are stored in a database (104).

More details about the first and second levels of trading on the Marketplace:

The seller, using the interface that provides him with feedback with the system, can draw attention to a large number of buyers' proposed purchase price offers rejected by the system for his goods. A little short of the minimum affordable price set by the seller and therefore rejected, these purchase offers motivate the seller to make an additional move towards the interests of buyers, so as not to miss them. The ETP trading platform provides the seller with such an opportunity. This additional feature sends Buyers to the "second level of trading".

By entering closed data about his product, the seller assigns an even more modest, “minimum minimum price” for the product, but ties it to the number of purchase price offers with the expectation of buyers. Only now, in contrast to the offered price offers of buyers at the first level of trade, these offers with anticipation are secured not by the fact of depositing money on the buyers 'account, but by actually transferring buyers' money to the ESCRO account of the Trading Platform.

The seller's subsystem contains an additional set of settings that is activated only at the first trading level. These settings, entered by the seller through the seller's subsystem, allow the seller to regulate the process of selling his goods in his own interests in order to prevent the sale of all goods at the minimum available price at the first trading level. Such settings are stored in the data structure (7), while the seller's subsystem allows the seller to set them at his own discretion. According to the claimed invention, the set of settings includes the following features:

1. Setting up the "bid step".

This setting allows the seller to set the minimum amount that the buyer can offer as an offer secured by the deposited money in his next attempt to offer a price offer in case his previous offer was not accepted by the system. This setting makes it difficult for the buyer to set a minimum acceptable seller price in many small attempts.

2. Setting up a "random lottery".

This setting is intended to create artificial restrictions on the system's acceptance of all purchase offers of Buyers whose price offers have exceeded the minimum permissible seller's price. This setting allows the system in the "random lottery" mode to more often refuse to some randomly selected buyers, whose purchase offers have been previously accepted by the system, but still at a price very close to the minimum admissible seller's price. And vice versa - practically do not refuse buyers with a more "generous" price offer. This setting may be of interest to a seller who has a limited amount of surplus goods and does not want to sell these leftovers too quickly and at a low price.

An example of how the "random lottery" setting works:

The seller on the site offers his goods for $ 100 and indicates this price as the regular price of the goods in the ETP system. At the same time, wanting to get rid of surplus goods, he indicates the Minimum Allowable Price - $ 60. Working according to the above-described basic algorithm (acceptance of an offer or rejection of it), the system should respond positively to any buyer's offer over $ 60, but the seller additionally sets a step of $ 10 and sets up the acceptance conditions as follows:

- if the price offered by the Buyer is $ 100, then the product is sold unconditionally;

- if the price offered by the Buyer is $ 90, then the goods are sold to every second Buyer;

- if the price offered by the Buyer is $ 80, then the goods are sold to every third Buyer;

- if the price offered by the Buyer is $ 70, then the product is sold to every fourth Buyer;

- if the price offered by the Buyer is $ 60, then the goods are sold to every fifth Buyer.

This additional “random lottery setting” motivates the buyer to bid a higher price if he does not want to miss out on the seller’s “limited in quantity” offer.

All settings data is stored in the data structure (7).

In turn, according to the claimed solution of the invention, the subsystem of the Buyer of the goods (101) consists of the following set of modules:

Service showcase module.

It is an interface that displays to the buyer the goods entered into the system by the sellers and the regular offers for them set by the sellers.

In the product cards of the buyer's subsystem (101), only the regular price of the product is displayed. The minimum allowable price, and other hidden conditions of acceptance of sales entered by the seller are not displayed and, as indicated earlier, are confidential for the buyer. The buyer can only choose and offer his proposed purchase price for the goods. To do this, the buyer must choose through the ETP interface, for example, in the form of a product card, the "Offer your price" option or a similar, in fact, form of offering to select the specified ETP function. All bids from Buyers are stored in the data structure (4).

Trading module.

Provides an interface for the interaction of the system with the customer. Contains comprehensive information about the rules of the Trading Platform, about the buyer's responsibility for his offer. Informs the buyer that any price offer for the selected product must be secured by the buyer's deposited funds.

The trading module allows the buyer to make an offer to the seller by declaring his offered price for the goods of the selected seller, entering his account data (corresponding to a bank card or bank account) and depositing funds in an account in an amount corresponding to the proposed price offer, in whole or in part, in depending on the terms of acceptance of sales preset in the ETP by the seller. For example, the amount of money deposited by the buyer can in practice be from 1 to 10 percent of the proposed amount of the purchase offer (the proposed price offer). The amount of the offer is made up of the offered price of the product and its quantity specified in the buyer's offer. At the same time, the system does not allow the buyer to offer their price without depositing funds.

The offer amount is deposited for a period preset in the system for analyzing the buyer's proposed price offer. The subsystem informs the buyer about the rules and conditions of trading on the ETP Marketplace, the buyer's responsibility for submitting his offer, including that having made a price offer he actually trusts the system to buy the selected product on his own behalf, and also provides the Marketplace to dispose of the deposited funds corresponding to the offer made on the buyer's account or money transferred to the ESCRO account of the ETP on behalf of the buyer in accordance with the pre-established trading rules. This information is displayed to the buyer before making a price offer by depositing funds (at the first trading level).

At the same time, the trading module, through the buyer's subsystem, informs the buyer about the possibility to transfer the funds previously deposited as a security for the offer on his account to the account of the Trading Platform for the purpose of a longer, but still limited in time, preset waiting period for the system's response on the buyer's offer.

If the conditions that the Buyer is familiar with and agrees with before depositing are accepted by him, while the Buyer has deposited funds to secure the offer, the system starts the process of automatic analysis of the buyer's price offer by comparing it with the seller's offer and the conditions for accepting offers established by the seller in the acceptance conditions of sale ... If the system automatically accepted the buyer's offer on behalf of the seller, comparing it with the seller's offer, and wrote off the buyer's deposited money in favor of the Marketplace, the trading module, through the buyer's and seller's subsystems, as well as the ETP interface, displays a message to the buyer and seller about the approval of the buyer's proposed price offer , its acceptance (congratulations on the transaction) and debiting the deposited money to the account of the Trading Platform for further settlement with the Seller, or writing off the previously transferred cash security of the buyer's offer to the ESCRO account of the ETP to the Seller's account.

If the Rules of the Trading Platform, which the buyer gets acquainted with before depositing, are accepted by him, his money will be successfully deposited to ensure the offer, but in the process of automatic analysis will be rejected by the system due to the proposed low price, the system automatically informs the buyer about the refusal to accept and offers to repeat an attempt to offer a higher price, while increasing the money supply of a more generous price offer.

If the buyer does not intend to make a new offer to an already verified seller, he can go to the page of another seller and make a new offer on the previously proposed terms to the new seller. In this case, the system does not give a signal to "unfreeze" the deposit. It only analyzes the previous price offer for its compliance with the acceptance conditions declared by the new selected seller, repeating the above algorithm.

If the buyer does not want to make new counter price offers to the previously selected and other sellers, he informs the system about this through the buyer's subsystem and the ETP interface, and the system, through the integration subsystem with the processing center, gives a signal to "unfreeze" the buyer's deposited funds on his account or the reverse transaction, in the case of transferring the cash security of the offer to the ESCRO account of the ETP. The buyer's deposit amount becomes available to him again in the shortest possible time, which can only be provided by the payment systems existing today.

In case of violation by the buyer of the rules for holding tenders, for example, refusal to transfer the full amount of the price offer offered by him after its acceptance when the share deposit of the offer's cash security at the stage of its presentation in the ETP system, the deposited funds transferred to the ESCRO account of the ETP are not returned to the buyer, but deposited on the buyer's account are transferred to the account of the Marketplace.

Buyer's personal account module.

Provides an interface for displaying and changing the personal data of the buyer, his identifier (ID), contact information, as well as information about the purchases made and their status.

The buyer's subsystem allows the buyer through the described communication systems in the browser or through other software that allows interacting with the System according to special protocols, select a product, make a secured purchase offer or carry out an Offer with expectation, and, if lucky, get the System's approval (acceptance). The sale of goods is carried out remotely. All product data are loaded from the database (104) and stored in the data structure (3).

Settlement and cash subsystem of the Marketplace (106).

It is a database that stores information about the availability of buyers' money on the ESCRO account of the Marketplace (at the second trading level).

The current practice of the well-known payment systems allows you to deposit buyers' funds for a period of no more than 24 hours before writing off (collection). Money that has not been collected for this period again becomes available to users of payment cards.

The ETP trading platform, through the settlement and cash subsystem, the trading module, as well as the buyer's subsystem and the ETP interface, in case of refusal to accept the buyer's offer after his unsuccessful price attempt, offers the buyer several options for continuing trading in the ETP systems:

1. Refuse further offers, which means the completion of trading on the selected position and "unfreezing" of the deposited cash collateral of the offer and providing full access to them for the buyer.

2. Try again to offer a price offer with a higher price offer. This means that the amount of the Buyer's deposited money must be replenished in accordance with the new, higher offer price. Attempts to present price offers at a higher offered price are not limited in the system and can be made before the offer is accepted by the system or the seller has exhausted the goods.

3. Repeat the purchase price offer with the same price parameters, but to the address of another seller present on the ETP Marketplace. This means that the deposited amount remains the same.

4. To repeat the attempt with the previous price offer to the previous Seller for the previous product, but willingly wait for the System's reaction at a specific time (day, week, etc.), i.e. make an offer with expectation. In this case, the System requires the Buyer to authorize the transfer of the previously deposited amount of money on the Buyer's account to the ESCRO account of the Marketplace, which provided his previous unsuccessful purchase offer. In fact, “part” for a longer period of time with your money in the amount of the offer security. The Buyer is informed about the Rules for keeping the Buyer's money on the ESCRO account of the Trading Platform and the options for the validity period of the offer with a wait (preferably at least one day). If the buyer is not in a hurry and is determined to stand at his originally proposed price, he agrees to the system's proposal for an offer with an expectation. The system, through the Subsystem of integration with the processing center, carries out encashment, that is, the transfer of the buyer's previously deposited money to the ESCRO account of the Trading Platform. The amount of payment corresponds to the amount of the Buyer's purchase offer for a specific product, with a specific waiting period for acceptance. From the moment of consent to make an offer with the expectation and transfer of their money to the ESCRO account of the Marketplace, the buyer is not able to dispose of them within the waiting period chosen by him. He cannot recall them, change his mind. He can only wait. The settlement and cash subsystem enables the Buyer to keep track of his money, to which the System has assigned a personal number.

Thus, the Settlement and cash subsystem serves as a kind of "bank cell" that ensures the reliable storage of the buyer's money in the urgent ESCRO account of the Trading Platform until the system can accept it.

At the same time, the Settlement and Cash Subsystem gives a command to the Integration Subsystem with the processing center to return the Buyer's money after the expiration of the offer term with an expectation in case the system ignores the purchased Offer with a waiting period for a predetermined period.

And in case of acceptance by the System of the offer with expectation, the Settlement and Cash Subsystem gives a command to the Subsystem of integration with the processing center to transfer money from the ESCRO account of the Trading Platform to the Seller.

The seller and the buyer do not have access to the Cash settlement subsystem. They see the results of her work through their interfaces.

The security subsystem (105) checks for user access to information and system sections by the user's role ID in the data structure (6). If the user is not yet registered in the System, then he offers him to go through the registration procedure.

During registration, the Security Subsystem assigns him a user ID and offers to enter the data of his bank card in an electronic form and saves this data in the data structure (2).

Subsystem for determining the terms of the transaction (102) - the key Subsystem of the ETP Trading Platform and the method of online electronic trading. The subsystem receives and processes data and information about the price offer offered by the buyer and the offered price for the selected product, compares the buyer's price offer with the seller's sale offer and the minimum price and acceptance conditions of sales established in it.

The result of the analysis by the Subsystem for determining the terms of the transaction of the entered data by the seller and the buyer in relation to goods and offers for their sale and purchase - the formation of a control signal to start the procedure for approving (accepting) the transaction or the procedure for canceling the transaction. (signal to accept the buyer's offer, or a signal to refuse the buyer's offer).

Algorithm for determining the results of the transaction:

If the purchase price offered by the buyer turned out to be equal to or higher than the minimum allowable price entered earlier by the seller, then the subsystem for determining the terms of the transaction pre-approves the transaction and sends it further for “screening” in accordance with additional settings - “Random lottery settings”.

If the additional "Random lottery settings" entered by the seller allowed to accept the Buyer's purchase price offer, then the Subsystem for determining the terms of the transaction finally saves the analysis result as positive.

If the price offered by the buyer turned out to be lower than the Minimum allowable price entered by the seller, then the Subsystem for determining the terms of the transaction saves the analysis result as negative.

If the price offered by the buyer was equal to or higher than the Minimum Allowable Price set by the Seller, but additional "Random lottery settings" introduced by the Seller weeded out the buyer's purchase price offer, the Subsystem for determining the terms of the deal saves the analysis result as negative.

The analysis results are saved in the data structure (4).

The result of the analysis and operation of the Subsystem for determining the terms of the deal, which is displayed to the Buyer, can be two options: "The deal is approved" or "The deal is canceled due to a low offered price" The buyer does not know about the existence of "Random lottery settings".

When analyzed as negative:

- if the buyer made a decision to refuse more generous purchase price offers, the system sends a command to the Integration Subsystem with the processing center, which allows the buyer to “unfreeze” the buyer's funds deposited for the offer on his account.

- if the buyer has decided to increase his purchase price offer, the system sends a command to the Subsystem for integration with the processing center to proportionally increase the deposited amount on the buyer's account.

- if the buyer made a decision to offer his offer with the same price to another seller on the Marketplace, the system sends a command to the Subsystem of integration with the processing center to leave the deposited money of the buyer in the same deposit mode.

If the analysis is positive, the Subsystem for determining the terms of the transaction sends a command to the Subsystem for integration with the processing center to transfer the buyer's funds deposited for the offer from his account to the current account of the Trading platform for further settlement with the Seller.

The subsystem for determining the terms of the transaction works according to a similar algorithm at the first and second trading levels. Only at the first trading level, the Subsystem analyzes, in addition to the Buyer's price offer, additional "Random lottery settings" and filters the previously approved Buyer's offers. And on the second trading level, there are no “Random lottery settings” and “Step filters”. But there is a criterion of the "minimum minimum price" of the product and its "Minimum quantity" introduced by the Seller of the product. According to this criterion, the Subsystem for determining the conditions of the transaction mathematically adds up the corresponding prices (operating in the same price range between the minimum minimum and minimum allowable prices) for the same Offer product with expectations from different Buyers in order to collect the required minimum quantity that forms a portfolio offer.

At both trading levels, the result of the Subsystem analysis is one of two: positive or negative.

The subsystem of integration with the processing center (103) is responsible for communication with the Buyer's Bank, the Seller's Bank, the EXCRO account of the Trading platform and the current account of the Trading platform "ETP".

The subsystem for integration with the processing center (103) sends a command to the Buyer's Bank to “freeze” the Buyer's funds, for example, using his bank card, since this is the main condition for securing the Buyer's offer.

The subsystem for integration with the processing center (103) sends a command to the Buyer's Bank to transfer the previously deposited funds of the Buyer from his account to the account of the Trading Platform in case of receipt of the analysis result from the Subsystem for determining the terms of the transaction as positive.

The subsystem for integration with the processing center (103) sends a command to the Buyer's Bank to "unfreeze" the Buyer's deposited funds if the analysis result is received from the Subsystem for determining the terms of the transaction as negative (if the Buyer does not want to bargain anymore and wants to take back his offer money).

The subsystem for integration with the processing center (103) sends a command to the Buyer's Bank to increase the amount of deposited funds if the Buyer decided to increase the offer price.

The subsystem of integration with the processing center (103) sends a command to the buyer's bank to leave the buyer's deposited money in the standby mode, if the buyer decided to make an offer of the same price to another Seller.

The subsystem for integration with the processing center (103) sends a command to the buyer's bank to transfer the buyer's previously deposited money to the ESCRO account of the Trading Platform, if the buyer decided to make an Offer with expectation.

The subsystem for integration with the processing center (103) sends a command to transfer the Buyer's money from the ESCRO account of the Trading Platform to the Seller's account, if the System has accepted the purchased Offer with the buyer waiting at the second trading level.

The subsystem of integration with the processing center (103) sends a command to return the money to the buyer from the ESCRO account of the Marketplace, if the System has not accepted the Offer with a waiting period specified by the buyer.

The result of the work is saved in the data structure (4).

The description of the transaction execution algorithm is presented in the block diagram of FIG. 3, where:

301 - The Buyer enters the public part of the Trading Platform of the ETP system, he is shown a showcase of goods and Sellers.

302 - The Buyer chooses the Seller, brand, category, product, its article, color, characteristics from those presented in the showcase.

303 - Having decided to buy the selected product at their own price, the Buyer selects the option “Offer your price” in the field formed by the interface with the product map.

304 - The security subsystem checks if the Buyer is authorized in the System. If authorized, then it goes to (309), if not authorized, to (305).

305 - The system offers the Buyer to register or go through the authentication and authorization procedure. If the Buyer is not yet registered in the System, then the transition to (306) takes place. If the Buyer is registered in the System, then go to (326), where the authorization form is displayed to him.

306 - When registering the Buyer, he is asked to confirm his agreement with the Trading Rules and with responsibility on the ETP Marketplace and enter the data required for registration.

307 - After the registration procedure, the Buyer is asked to enter the bank card details.

308 - The security subsystem checks the correctness of the data filled in by the Buyer about his bank card. If the data specified by the Buyer is correct, then the transition to (309) takes place. If the bank card details are not correct, it returns to (307).

309 - The Buyer enters the Proposed Price into the electronic form proposed by the System for its transmission to the Subsystem for determining the terms of the transaction

325 The system checks whether the Buyer's money has already been deposited under this price offer, and if the Buyer's money has not been deposited, then the transition to (310) occurs, if deposited and the amount of the current purchase offer is equal or less than the already deposited amount of the Buyer's money, then the transition to ( 311).

310 - The data on the offer amount and the Buyer's bank card data are sent to the Subsystem of integration with the processing center to deposit the Buyer's funds in the amount of his purchase offer. If the Subsystem for integration with the processing center receives a refusal from the Buyer's Bank to deposit the Buyer's funds in the amount of his purchase offer (not enough money), then the transition to (324) occurs. If the Subsystem of integration with the processing center, with the approval of the Buyer's Bank, deposits the Buyer's money in the amount of his purchase offer, then the transition to (311) takes place.

311 - The subsystem for determining the terms of the transaction analyzes the Buyer's offer. If it has calculated that the Buyer's Offered Price meets or exceeds the Minimum Allowable Price for the Seller's goods, then the purchase price offer is considered pre-approved by the System. And there is a transition to (313). If the Subsystem for determining the terms of the transaction decided that the Price Offered by the Buyer is lower than the Minimum Allowable Price of the Seller for his service, then the transaction is not approved by the System and the transition to (312) takes place.

312 - The system informs the Buyer about the refusal in the transaction and the transition to (316) takes place.

313 - The filter of additional "Random lottery settings" introduced by the Seller analyzes the Buyer's purchase price offer, previously approved by the System.

If the filter of the additional "Random lottery settings" of the Seller is not passed, then the transition to (312) takes place.

If the filter of additional "Random lottery settings" of the Seller has been successfully passed and the Buyer's purchase offer is finally accepted by the System, then the transition to (314) takes place.

314 - The system gives a command to the Subsystem of integration with the processing center (103) to transfer the deposited funds of the Buyer to the current account of the Marketplace and the transition to (315) and (327) takes place.

315 - The system informs the Buyer and the Seller about the completed transaction. And congratulates them on this event. Pleasant victorious music plays.

316 - If the System rejects acceptance, the Buyer is offered options:

- increase the offered price (309),

- to carry out an Offer with expectation (317),

- make the same price offer to another Seller (302),

- refuse the purchase offer and take the money (323).

317 - If the Buyer agrees to carry out the Offer with expectation, the System sends a command to the Subsystem of integration with the processing center to transfer the Buyer's money deposited earlier to the ESCRO account of the Trading Platform and the transition to (319)

319. - The system generates and saves Waiting Offers.

320. - Analysis and evaluation of the Offer with expectation. If the Subsystem for determining the terms of the transaction approves the Offer with an expectation based on the closed requirements introduced by the Seller for the Minimum Minimum Price and Minimum Quantity in the period set by the Buyer, then the transition to (314) occurs. A command is sent to the Subsystem of integration with the processing center to transfer the Buyer's money from the ESCRO account of the Trading Platform to the Seller's account, minus the agent's fee.

If the Subsystem does not accept the purchased Offer with an expectation in the time period specified by the Buyer or the Seller, then the transition to (323)

321 - Sending a command to the Subsystem of integration with the processing center to return money to the Buyer from the ESCRO account of the Trading Platform to the Buyer's account. Informing the Buyer about this.

323 - Sending a command to the Subsystem of integration with the processing center to “unfreeze” the Buyer's money on his account. Informing the Buyer about this.

FIG. 1 illustrates an exemplary computer system or network architecture that may be used to implement the Marketplace described in the present invention. One or more of these computer systems can implement the methods presented herein as computer code. One or more processors, such as processor 200, which may be a dedicated or general purpose processor, are coupled to data bus 206. Bus 206 connects processor 200 to various other components of the computer system, and bus 206 is also intended to connect processor 200 to other computer systems. Via bus 206, processor 200 can receive computer code. The term "computer code" includes a set of programs, instructions, instructions, signals, or data. Processor 200 executes computer code.

The computer system in the block diagram of FIG. 1 may include one or more memory modules 205 used by the computer to store and access source code.

Storage system 203 is an architectural solution for connecting external storage devices such as hard drives, disk arrays, tape libraries, optical drives to servers so that the operating system recognizes the connected resources as local.

The computer system shown in the block diagram of Fig. 1 may further include other means for processing computer code that will be transferred between the computer system and external devices, including other computer systems. This transmission can be bidirectional or unidirectional.

The computer code transmitted to the interface 201 is transmitted in the form of signals, which can be electronic, electromagnetic, optical, or others. These signals can be transmitted using a variety of modes, including but not limited to: wires, cables, fiber optic cables, telephone lines, cellular lines. Interfaces 201 can be in the form of: modem, network interface (for example, an Ethernet card), wired or Wire-less systems (such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and IR).

I / O interface 204 can be any wired or wireless connection that allows the transmission of computer code.

The present invention relates to a computer product and is referred to as a software / hardware solution, the software product of which includes computer code for a computer system. The processor 200 executes computer code to implement the functionality described in the present invention. The software, as part of the PAC, is loaded into the computer system using the memory 205 via the I / O interface 204, the network interface 201, or any other interface in the computer system.

The claimed modifications for the implementation of online electronic trading and the automated online system for their implementation are technical solutions, since are particular solutions to the problem of achieving the claimed technical result by implementing a method and system, which are processes and devices, in which actions are sequentially, in time, performed on material objects - data processed and processed by the system in one way or another using computer devices. These actions carried out on data are: placing data in data fields on machine-readable media, activating data fields, data transfer. These actions are carried out using computer devices: processors, memory devices, external and internal machine-readable media, input-output devices, controllers and others. Thus, the claimed modifications of the invention are a process of performing actions on material objects using material means, i.e. is a technical solution - the way and to relate to objects protected as an invention.

The above modifications of the invention are industrially applicable since can be used in public life for electronic trading with the participation of citizens and organizations. The application and use of these modifications of the method does not cause any difficulties and can be carried out by people who have even basic training in the use of computers. When implementing the method, devices, devices and materials produced by the industry and available on the open market are used. The methods of implementation of the invention are user or operator work with a computer and input-output means. The means of implementation are the usual means used in computer systems and devices - input / output means, external memory devices, computers and their components.