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We study the problem of online prophet-inequality matching in bipartite graphs. There is a static set of bidders and an online stream of items. We represent the interest of bidders in items by a weighted bipartite graph. Each bidder has a capacity, i.e., an upper bound on the number of items that can be allocated to her. The weight of a matching is the total weight of edges matched to the bidders. Upon the arrival of an item, the online algorithm should either allocate it to a bidder or discard it. The objective is to maximize the weight of the resulting matching. We consider this model in a stochastic setting where we know the distribution of the incoming items in advance. Furthermore, we allow the items to be drawn from different distributions, i.e., we may assume that the tth item is drawn from distribution Dt. In contrast to i.i.d. model, this allows us to model the change in the distribution of items throughout the time. We call this setting the Prophet-Inequality Matching because of the possibility of having a different distribution for each time. We generalize the classic prophet inequality by presenting an algorithm with the approximation ratio of 1--1/√k+3 where k is the minimum capacity. In case of k=2, the algorithm gives a tight ratio of 1/2 which is a different proof of the prophet inequality. We also consider a model in which the bidders do not have a capacity, instead each bidder has a budget. The weight of a matching is the minimum of the budget of each vertex and the total weight of edges matched to it, when summed over all bidders. We show that if the bid to the budget ratio of every bidder is at most 1/k then a natural randomized online algorithm has an approximation ratio of 1-kk/ekk! H 1--1/√2πk compared to the optimal offline (in which the ratio goes to 1 as k becomes large). We also present the applications of this model in Adword Allocation, Display Ad Allocation, and AdCell Model.