Trusted infrastructure support systems, methods and techniques for secure electronic commerce, electronic transactions, commerce process control and automation, distributed computing, and rights management
First Claim
1. A Distributed Commerce Utility providing administrate and support services to electronic community participants, the Distribute Commerce Utility comprising:
- at least one Commerce Utility System providing a secure execution space, the Commerce Utility System performing at least one component based service function, the component based service function comprising at least one secure component for execution within the secure execution space; and
a communications facility permitting the Commerce Utility System to communicate secure control information with at least some of the electronic community participants.
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Abstract
The present inventions provide an integrated, modular array of administrative and support services for electronic commerce and electronic rights and transaction management. These administrative and support services supply a secure foundation for conducting financial management, rights management, certificate authority, rules clearing, usage clearing, secure directory services, and other transaction related capabilities functioning over a vast electronic network such as the Internet and/or over organization internal Intranets.
These administrative and support services can be adapted to the specific needs of electronic commerce value chains. Electronic commerce participants can use these administrative and support services to support their interests, and can shape and reuse these services in response to competitive business realities.
A Distributed Commerce Utility having a secure, programmable, distributed architecture provides administrative and support services. The Distributed Commerce Utility makes optimally efficient use of commerce administration resources, and can scale in a practical fashion to accommodate the demands of electronic commerce growth.
The Distributed Commerce Utility may comprise a number of Commerce Utility Systems. These Commerce Utility Systems provide a web of infrastructure support available to, and reusable by, the entire electronic community and/or many or all of its participants.
Different support functions can be collected together in hierarchical and/or in networked relationships to suit various business models and/or other objectives. Modular support functions can combined in different arrays to form different Commerce Utility Systems for different design implementations and purposes. These Commerce Utility Systems can be distributed across a large number of electronic appliances with varying degrees of distribution.
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20 Claims
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1. A Distributed Commerce Utility providing administrate and support services to electronic community participants, the Distribute Commerce Utility comprising:
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at least one Commerce Utility System providing a secure execution space, the Commerce Utility System performing at least one component based service function, the component based service function comprising at least one secure component for execution within the secure execution space; and a communications facility permitting the Commerce Utility System to communicate secure control information with at least some of the electronic community participants. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method of distributing at least one administrative or support service operation comprising:
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providing a reciprocal control method comprising first and second elements; performing. based on the first element, at least a part of a first service operation within a first protected processing environment; performing, based on the second element, at least a part of the second service operation within a second protected processing environment; and reciprocally coupling the first and second elements to provide an overall distributed administrative or support service operation. - View Dependent Claims (18)
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19. A transaction authority for controlling a process involving plural participants, the transaction authority comprising:
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a commerce utility system architecture including an event notification database; and a communications facility that communicates event notifications between the plural participants and the transaction authority, wherein the transaction authority performs at least one service process based at least in part on the event notification database to monitor and/or direct the activities of at least one of the plural participants.
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