DISTRIBUTED COMMERCE SYSTEM

• US 20080133643A1
• Filed: 02/08/2008
• Published: 06/05/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Refinitiv US Organization, LLC (Refinitiv US Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Thomson Financial Limited (The Woodbridge Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Lamoureux, Bob, Kuntz, Matthew, Shea, Edward, Jaminet, Paul, Kopikis, Alexis, Constantine, John Boland, Bremner, Todd, Moochhala, Zenobia
• Granted Patent: US 8,359,251 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/201
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/12 Accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/265 Personal security, identity or safety

Abstract

A networked system for managing commercial interactions is providing. In some embodiments, the system includes: a bundle-passing interface between a plurality of networked users including distribution logic including a distribution control input responsive to machine-readable information in the bundles; and a statistics collection engine including a control input responsive to machine-readable information in the bundles.

Claims

1-12. -12. (canceled)

13. A networked system for managing commercial interactions, comprising:

a bundle-passing interface between a plurality of networked users including distribution logic including a distribution control input responsive to machine-readable information in the bundles; and

a statistics collection engine including a control input responsive to machine-readable information in the bundles.

14. A networked system for managing commercial interactions, comprising:

means for distributing information bundles from different ones of a first plurality of different networked users to different ones of a second plurality of different network users according to a machine-readable format that includes values for a plurality of content attribute descriptors; and

means for deriving traffic statistics for the step of distributing based on values for the content attribute descriptors.

15-58. -58. (canceled)