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System and method for establishing electronic business systems for supporting communications services commerce

  • US 7,657,436 B2
  • Filed: 03/30/2001
  • Issued: 02/02/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An electronic business support system, comprising a smart component server, wherein said smart component server comprises:

  • a plurality of activity smart components, each of which performs a specific business logic;

    a plurality of service smart components which provide common infrastructure capabilities required by said activity smart components;

    a plurality of communications messaging interfaces that transport messages from said support system to external systems;

    a plurality of transport adapters, which facilitate connectivity with external systems;

    an administrator console, which is a Java-based tool that uses XML files to map object attributes to a database which is associated with said electronic business support system;

    wherein said smart components are implemented as stateless session enterprise Java beans;

    wherein said activity smart components comprise;

    an offer management server, which provides services for creating and presenting a collection of offer instances;

    a quote management server, which provides services for creating a quote upon placing said collection of offer instances into a shopping cart; and

    an order management server, which provides services for creating an order upon quoting all quote items.

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