Abstract: A system and method of sourcing materials by connecting or matching Sellers having present or expected inventory with Buyers having present or expected necessity while minimizing or eliminating the use of a third party intermediary are disclosed. In some implementations, a method of sourcing materials may generally comprise receiving bid information from a candidate Seller and demand data from a candidate Buyer, comparing the bid information and the demand data to match a portion of the candidate Seller's inventory to the candidate Buyer's need (to identify a transaction), allocating and routing the portion of the inventory to the candidate Buyer via a transportation carrier, and augmenting the historical data with information associated with the transaction.

Abstract: A system and method of sourcing materials by connecting or matching Sellers having present or expected inventory with Buyers having present or expected necessity while minimizing or eliminating the use of a third party intermediary are disclosed. In some implementations, a method of sourcing materials may generally comprise receiving bid information from a candidate Seller and demand data from a candidate Buyer, comparing the bid information and the demand data to match a portion of the candidate Seller's inventory to the candidate Buyer's need (to identify a transaction), allocating and routing the portion of the inventory to the candidate Buyer via a transportation carrier, and augmenting the historical data with information associated with the transaction.

Abstract: A system and method of sourcing materials by connecting or matching Sellers having present or expected inventory with Buyers having present or expected necessity while minimizing or eliminating the use of a third party intermediary are disclosed. In some implementations, a method of sourcing materials may generally comprise receiving bid information from a candidate Seller and demand data from a candidate Buyer, comparing the bid information and the demand data to match a portion of the candidate Seller's inventory to the candidate Buyer's need (to identify a transaction), allocating and routing the portion of the inventory to the candidate Buyer via a transportation carrier, and augmenting the historical data with information associated with the transaction.

Abstract: A client device downloads a file of a computer-implemented game using multiple network connections. The client device may first receive configuration information for downloading the file, such that the configuration information indicates a partition quantity for a plurality of file portions into which the file is partitioned at one or more server computers, and indicates at least one hostname from which to request the file portions. The client device may download the plurality of file portions by using the configuration information to determine uniform resource locators (URLs) for the individual file portions, and using multiple network connections to download the file portions from the determined URLs. The client device may then combine the plurality of file portions to form the file.