TW381239B - Method and apparatus for creating a distributed electronic commerce system - Google Patents

Abstract

A method and system for transacting commerce in a distributed communications system over the Internet comprises the reception and transmission of shopping requests, product requests, and payment information between distributed Web sites. The distributed communications system comprises: a server system; and a customer system which is coupled to the server system. The server system comprises a virtual cashier for receiving product requests and payment information. The virtual cashier responds to a first network address. The server system also comprises a virtual store for shopping. The virtual store responds to a second network address. The customer system allows a customer to make shopping requests. Java applets and servlets running at distinct network addresses provide much of the functionality. The system allows greater efficiencies and lower costs for World Wide Web (""WWW"") merchants and for Web site hosting services.

Description

The parent also refers to the related application that does not apply to the background of the invention. 1. The field of invention relates to computer networks, and more specifically, to the many decentralized Internet commerce ϊ ϊ = ϊ ί (scalable) decentralized Internet commerce. Department 2. Another one-day application for a description of related skills is filed on related science and technology applications. The application was formulated by Vic R. Waiters, with the method and device entitled Merchants who use it in a decentralized e-commerce system, and one of BC9 ~ 98_020 The IBM Reference Editor said that it was transferred to International Business Machines (IBM) Company (hereinafter referred to as "Development Tool Application"). The reason why the World Wide Web (“Web”) has become extremely popular—mostly because it ’s easy to find information and the user affinity of today ’s browsers (browsers). Hypertext) will allow users to access information from one web page to another by simply pointing (using, for example, a pointing device such as a mouse) over the text and clicking. Web pages. Another feature that makes the web attractive is that, for each type of accessed content, a specialized application is not required to be able to handle the information (or content) in a remote web page. So, across the different platforms (Platforms) to view the same content. Browser ·

V. Description of Invention (2) Technology has evolved to enable applications that manipulate this content across many platforms to execute. The web relies on a language called Hyper-Text Mark

Up Language (HTML for short) application protocol. HTML is a kind of solution: s (in: terpretative scripting) language, in a: Web compliant browser, used to provide: this article , Graphic 'image' sound, live video, and other types of content. HTML is independent of the client (c n ent) operating system. As a result, HTML provides the same content across a wide variety of software and hardware operating platforms. The software platform infinitely includes: Microsoft's Windows 3.1 'Windows NT, Apple Computer's Copeland and Macintosh, and IBM's AIX and OS / 2' and HP's (Up) 's υηίχβ and many universal compliance web browsing Infinitely included: Internet Explorer from Microsoft (Micr0sft), Navigator from Netscape, Lynx, and Mosec (Mosaic). Through the use of hyperlinks (1 inks), HTML will explain links to projects, images, sound clips (sound cHpS), and other types of content. As soon as the user invokes (inv〇cati〇n) a hyperlink to one of the web pages, the browser will initiate a web request to the required web page. ^ The use of e-commerce on the Internet is growing, and a variety of traditional larger retailers and larger mail-order catalog companies have sold electronically online supplies. Everything from actual shopping to deciding on existing inventory and accepting payments is done electronically. Merchant's website or online storefront

5. Description of the invention (3) (Web storefront) will automatically handle all purchases, choices, and acceptance of transactions (transactions). Unlike traditional storefronts, this automatic ability enables merchants to provide goods for sale 24/7, regardless of the night (for an example of a traditional catalog company that provides goods via the Internet, Lu's is based in Maine (Maine) LL BEAN of Freeport (Freeport), the company's URL (common resource indicator) is W / ff.llbean.com). However, the ability to host retail merchandise on the Internet must be difficult. & Integrating the main functions of e-commerce is difficult. In particular, the three functions are generally integrated into a retail network. The first function is to use the text, graphics or alternative methods to virtually present the merchant's product to the customer. This feature is sometimes referred to as an "electronic storefront," or "online f-side," or, in the case of a catalog merchant, an "e-commerce W catalog." The second feature is inventory, inventory, pricing, and $ sellability per item, as well as tracking sales and maintenance of taxes. The third function is to perform electronic transactions (^ ransactions) for payments in a secure environment, where a payment such as one of a credit card customer is performed. Generally speaking, most e-commerce websites integrate all three functions in one physical website. ^ Companies that want to do business online face many problems. The first question is $ = the cost and reason of many necessary units of an e-commerce server. Difficulties include: (1) host operation of the online store; (2) maintenance of a deposit and financial database; and (3) roll-out process of a SeCUred transaction server (roll out). Think

Page 8 5. Invention Description (4) For most small businesses that are emerging on the Internet, the initial up-front cost is a major obstacle. Therefore, it is necessary for M to t to eliminate the obstacles that are generally associated with the establishment of e-commerce on the Internet. The cost involves not only the software design and construction, and the necessary equipment; it also involves the initial hardware investment, which can operate all three units of an e-commerce server for a merchant. The second problem is to meet the requirements of the online storefront or online product catalog to be constantly updated. Many merchants will pay dedicated personnel to update, create, and modify their websites. The service cost of maintaining a merchant's website may be significant. It is necessary to equip the merchant with the ability to easily create, modify, and update his own online storefront. The third issue is to meet the requirements that online storefront inventory and financial databases must be maintained and updated. g. Reflect changes in sales volume, advertising specials, and pricing changes in the inventory database. For many smaller businesses, excluding the requirement to electronically connect to their online storefronts, the requirement to retain inventory and financial records electronically is too complex and expensive. Many smaller businesses use simple written ledger (16 (^ 61 ^) or standalone) software applications to control their inventory and finances. For merchants who want to sell goods and services on the Internet, It is necessary to maintain their inventory and financial capacity in a way that can be increased or decreased in a proportional manner. In this way, as performance grows, merchants can divide from a pen by a separate electronic database. _ Connected and automated databases.

The fourth issue is: satisfying the automatic acceptance of many safety and electronic support

V. Description of the Invention (5) A 丨. One —- = 's, please. It has the requirements of encryption and clearance software and server hardware, as well as secure irewal ls. This requirement is very expensive. For businessmen who want to build an online storefront, it is necessary to increase or decrease electronic payment proportionally to meet their needs. The fifth problem is: getting advertisements to newsgroups and other internet based The capabilities of the user of this article are exactly the opposite of those of a graphics-based user. Some universals, such as Lynx (lynx), text-only viewers have no graphical HTML capabilities. Therefore, it is necessary to enable merchants to advertise anywhere (and to process payment information even in e-commerce based on this article only. As mentioned earlier, a concern for merchants who want to engage in e-commerce It's website development. In the case of a large company that integrates all three functions in a single website, these costs can easily exceed $ 1 million. In addition, even if programming is not usually performed by a businessman 'Businessmen must also waste a considerable amount of time on layout and review. These costs are significant in terms of time and money. Some smaller companies may choose to create their own websites. . However, $ can be quite difficult for a veteran computer user businessman. Although creating a website is relatively easy, but without the guidance of a competent person, the website may be designed Bad, so little economic value. So 'a kind of simplified website design, creation, and maintenance for merchants. V. Invention Explanation (6) Summary of the invention ~~ In short, according to the present invention-Shang Su 'in Weng & type communication system, which is used to deal with a decentralized customer system, including: A product system received at a virtual store to send a request to the virtual cashier ujh from the virtual store; and a customer system communication system includes: a server server system includes: used to connect to the server system. Serving a virtual store for supplies; Γί;:; :: The feeder system also includes a t-customer system that allows customers to propose shopping items—Internet address creation (Simplified S '' another flip-flop according to the present invention Method of commerce in communication system: "1 method for processing branch-decentralized systems:"; receiving from a virtual cashier "In short, according to another aspect of the present invention, a computer uses more than 2 methods to construct the above method Read the program instructions .... In short, according to another aspect of the present invention, the virtual person will construct the above method. Money store and virtual cashier. ^ Non-dispersed electricity A functional block diagram of a business system. Figure 2 is: a functional block diagram of one of the WWW's decentralized systems according to the present invention. Figure 3 of a decentralized e-commerce system is: according to the present invention, another of the WWW's One point today ^ 77 Department of E-commerce

Page 11 5. Description of the invention (7) A functional block diagram of the system. Fig. 4 is a functional block diagram for another system of ffffw according to the present invention. Department of Distributed E-commerce Figure 5 is a flowchart of many functions. The distributed e-commerce system shown in Figure 4 is implemented in a typical shopping experience, which the officials used to describe. An explanation of an embodiment provided by the W customer 1. Introduction and overview 'shows 100 production printing presentations, database management, and transaction processing according to one of the previous skills ^ Because the feeder is just in the middle, so It is not decentralized; the company is in two t # 4104, an example of one type of service provider is Net commercH =: Yes;: can be dispersed in two or more three functions: server: middle figure 1 also illustrates: an intention to access a computer network from two customers 丨〗 4, i 丨 6: Ball Information Network ("read"). Can be directly via a local Internet Service Provider ^ (Internet Service Provider, "ISp" for short) 11, or via an online service provider such as CompuServe, PrOdigy, or America ONHline (on_line service pr ( ) vider, 〇LSP ") 1 1 2 to reach the access server! 〇8. One way to decentralize e-commerce functions is to remove the transaction server from the

5. Description of the invention (8). Referring to FIG. 2, the display server 202) is on the store server 204). For example, regardless of the actual distance or the online storefront, use such as: Many host operating services, in which inventory and finance (see: inventory and finance. A computerized electrical interface, and in one place, inventory and finance- A computerized inventory has only a computerized device; then there may not be a system 2000 separated from the online storefront and the inventory and financial database, which includes: a server (the parent processor 102) And the online storefront 106 and the inventory and financial database on the second feeder (on the merchant's expertise, using an alternative method to the transaction service provider; when the online merchant wants to maintain this system himself May be wanted. Such a businessman might make

CyberGate, Magg. Net, and any of the service providers of the UUNet system. Figure 3 shows that the system 300 with a further decentralized service database 104 is not online. The dashed line in Figure 3 indicates that the system may or may not be electrically connected to a server (computerized). The system may have a type of servo that is not on the server itself. The optional system of the two may be independent. This is the case if the online merchant does not have the financial database system; or, if the online merchant does not have the database system 'but just connects it to the server. Referring to FIG. 2, the store server 204 is a traditional Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol daemon (HTTPd). In the preferred embodiment, it is a Sun Microsystems (Sun —)

Microsystems) compliant HTTPd server (Java compliant) ‘It will run Java server compliant standard server applet interface, such as: Netscape ’s java Server software’ or Lotus Development

Page 13 5. The invention description (9), ^ a〇tus) Domino Go Java software. By using a software example of G, it is possible to run the same code on various operating systems that support ... virtual virtual machines (^ = r ^ al Machlne). The remote system includes: Solaris, Unix, Αχ , 〇s / 2, to

Windows 95 / NT operating system. As shown in the overview, and referring to FIG. 3, the transaction server 202 will not now host the online storefront 106. However, the transaction server 202 does not need to store 2 inventory or financial information 'or store any other information about the merchant's products. Each time W is requested to purchase W, the transaction feeder 2'2 needs to send all information to it in order to process a purchase request (for example, from a customer 4). Wenyi server 202 will verify that the customer 114 must perform a specific "shopping basket" to buy one of many products, and (prOmpts) the customer 14 payment information. If not the merchant Father Easy Server 202 can perform: credit card verification, authorization of total purchases, and funds transfer. When Father Easy Server 2 has completed its work, it will then provide merchants This kind of transaction status report, and provides a confirmation for the customer. The online storefront 106 acts as a virtual store for the customer 114 and contains any business: $ Information that has been established on the website (eg: photos, prices, searchers' ^ Search engines, etc.) In the development tool application, there is a development tool for designing an online storefront 106. This tool is greatly simplified: the online storefront was initially created and modified, And the work of updating it. The tool also guarantees: for customers 11 and 4, and the transaction server 202

The operation is seamless. The development tool obtains most of its utility programs (U ^ llty) from the fact that it contains a set of templates that are tailored according to different productions for the creation of web pages. The stops on these templates can be filled with this article 'or with images from clip art (including tools); or they can be tailored to suit the needs of a particular merchant. By including a hint mode to greatly simplify the work, in this mode, the 'development tool' will actually advance the user step by step through the process. Like an additional tailoring feature, the tool can be adapted to any “look and feel” that a customer might want. Customers may have to match the look and feel of other apps they use, or they may just feel more comfortable with another look and feel. In a preferred embodiment, the tool may be downloaded from a Store Builder Server (Store Builder Server). The tool is not considered as an application that will be executed on a browser. An applet is just an application. Referring to Figure 4, there is shown a government e-commerce system with a store builder feeder 402. A merchant may download a wizard application to create a web page of an online storefront on the store server 204. The store builder server 402 will also include a Java server applet, which will receive HTML from the witchcraft application applet designed for merchants' online storefront pages, and will build and build store pages based on this HTML. Of course, this happens when a merchant designs a web page initially, or whenever a merchant updates or modifies a web page. The server applet on the store creator-server 402, and will then

V. Description of the invention (11) Local publishing (pub 1 i sh) online store front page. Separate (when necessary) the many tasks associated with designing a merchant's website to make the business system more decentralized. In many alternative embodiments, the tool can be downloaded from the transaction server 2006 or it can be obtained on a CD ROM (Read Only Disc Memory) or other recordable medium. 2. The description of the shopping process-Refer to Figure 5 in a typical shopping or host operation on a customer. Flowchart 500 illustrates: In experience, each server (refer to Figure 4) Many high-level functions. > The customer uses a browser, walks to the store server and starts shopping, then |: Just browse the contents of the online storefront, 502. When a customer finds a product that the customer wants to buy, he chooses that product, 504. By using a universal resource indicator (Uniform Response URLcat) (referred to as "URL"), the store server then jumps to the store creator server, 52 06. The URL called the price tag URL is Contains: All information about the product, and the need to create a "Buy page". Related product information includes: product photo ’product price, = product description. And the product creator ’s server receives the encrypted price URL, and the Java “shopping webpage” server applet creates an option k ^ 50 50 ”based on the received HTML. What the customer can do now is either to accept the option in the shopping basket of the product by choosing, or to cancel the purchase, 5 1 0. If the writing operation is cancelled and the purchase operation is canceled, the customer returns to the product server and can continue to purchase. If the purchase action: Then Zippi

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Accept, the store builder server then presents his entire shopping basket to the customer until the time the store builder server created and maintained = ,. Customers can now delete some items from the shopping basket and change the quantity, "Lin buy, 1 偭 shopping basket; otherwise, return to the store server to continue shopping, 2. It should be clear: the previous purchase actions, etc. It is effective to put the product in the shopping basket, and the purchase operation is equivalent to the type f counter. The Java server applet that maintains the shopping basket can use any method of μ 3 Ϊ T, the method is unlimited Locations include: tracking online customer service addresses, or reminding customers of a name to remember which customer matched which shopping basket. ^ 2 customers leave his shopping basket page by performing a purchase or continuing shopping. 2 customers If he decides to execute the purchase, he hyper-inked it to the delivery server 514. Therefore, the transaction server was not involved until the money was transferred at any time. Therefore, the transaction server immediately established an alternative ~ Secondly, secure keying between browsers 5 1 6 ◎ Although you can use any of the King ’s Association, but the secure sockets layer (secure sockets layer) protocol is more suitable. In establishing a security chain After that, the server will prompt the customer: required identification 'delivery, and payment information, 51 8. In an alternative embodiment, a secure link and access can be performed in the store builder server The customer payment information has two functions. The transaction server 2 will then receive the six messages encrypted or presented from the store creator server and decrypt it. This will provide an embodiment in which: 乂 Easy feeder Do not need to talk to customers in real time (in1: act);

V. Description of the invention (13) I ~ ';-When necessary, only provide a confirmation message. The transaction server may optionally verify credit card information, authorize payment, and transfer funds to the merchant's account 52. The transaction server may use services such as ic verification or automated trading (Au1; 〇ma1; ed

Transact ion Services (ATS for short) is a third-party credit card bill settlement and clearinghouse. However, the merchant does not need to request this service from the Easy Server. Some merchants with low transaction volume may just like to send the entire purchase order by e-mail (securely) or fax and they perform these functions themselves; in order to save the associated costs that transaction service providers should charge. In addition, the merchant prefers to check his inventory before charging the customer. In each case, the transaction feeder will notify the merchant of the transaction status and supply all products, customers' delivery, and payment information. If the customer provides an email account, the transaction feeder will also send a transaction confirmation message to the customer 5 2 2.

For i Lt: In the alternative embodiment, '② Easy server can also perform these functions. In such an embodiment, the price URL is hyperlinked to the transaction server, and the server contains: a claw money server applet to create a page, and a claw server server to maintain the shopping basket.

3. Some high-level functions performed by the female feeders have already explained the two pieces and communication sequence during a typical transaction. It should be useful to summarize the one performed by each server. Some of the functions between the feeders are individually

V. Description of the invention (14) a. Functions performed by the store server The Internet storefront performs a basic service, which is to present the multimedia content to customers in order to rent a shop. This presentation format is controlled by the shop owner and can be easily designed using the development tools disclosed in the development tools mentioned earlier. Eight. The online storefront can have background information about the merchant, several interesting news, etc., all as discussed earlier, inventory and financial information. If the merchant, the merchant can also supply this database to the negative library ’to provide information about the price before the order is paid, etc. By creating a program that will process the notice of delivery, the database server interface is connected. * ^ 4 χ〇 ； Department Information ’Some customers’ sense of interest to merchants can be displayed on the online storefront. People can control the emperor in any way they want. Using a computer-based database, the shells and noodles are connected to the online storefront. Ability to use backorders, existing quantities, customers. In a complex and delicate system, the e-mail orders sent by the Easy Server may even be electronically and traded = functions performed by the store builder server. 66 The first major function of the builder server is to help The businessman builds his Putian and makes it work. The store builder feeder will first provide the witch &: dragon program or application 'This program allows the merchant to create his network ητμ store creator server and then accepts 6 MW from the merchant's online storefront. Road storefront. The store creator server then publishes on and off the merchant ’s website (UIK identifier week) ^ Internet storefront webpage ° The merchant will supply a usage and a kind of password and password to the store creator

Server, and the store builder server uses a transfer protocol (referred to as "ftp") to send web pages to the selected host to operate the website. File transfer protocol (fi le or some other service) The second main function of the old server is to provide customers with shopping ^ ^ When selecting or purchasing products, the store builder server will be put into the shopping basket, and Hold the product until the customer avoids it at any time. At that time, the store creator server will transfer control and related information to the transaction server. C. The function performed by the transaction server, the parent server, There is a general responsibility, which is to deal with the customer's information (news. The general server involves: getting information from the customer and transferring the information to the merchant. As explained earlier, it may also involve: verifying the information 'Enable the purchase amount and fund transfer. In addition, the transaction server can also send a transaction confirmation message to the customer. It is also important that the transaction server is like the store builder server and does not need to know the store server Where the server is located. That is, the transaction server does not require: store feeders, or even store builder feeders. At an Internet address. Even in an embodiment where the transaction server performs some of the functions of the store builder server, "the transaction server should not need to know where the store server is. In In such a situation, the 'transaction server will receive a price ... URL with product information. However, it is obvious that once the price URL is sent, the location of the store server (or conversely, where the price URL is sent) will be Know, and need to be known. Know where to send the price URL (typically from a merchant

Page 20 5. Description of the invention (16) 'One of the store server's web pages) will allow: the transaction server or the store creator server hyperlinked to the internet customer to return to this place in order to continue shopping. 4. Advantages associated with the preferred embodiment a. Advantages for merchants The preferred embodiments have many significant advantages for merchants who want to participate in e-commerce. First, it is less expensive than non-decentralized systems. The merchant only needs to: purchase development tools to create a website, pay for the host operation of the online storefront at the merchant's choice-[sp (Internet Service Provider), and pay for transaction services (through transaction volume) Based). Hosting fees can be as low as $ 20 per month-the low end depends on the memory and the required bandwidth (bandwi dth). Second, creating an online storefront is much simpler than creating a normal e-commerce website. The development tool 'described in the development tool application mentioned earlier allows the merchant to design, build, and publish a website in a short period of time. It also makes the tool easy to modify websites. It is intended to compare this method with the process of hiring professionals, or with self-study about the process and doing it alone. Third, it provides a website, changing prices or other content updates, changing the host operation server or transaction server. Businessmen can do anything. Many control methods were given to the grid, and it was decided to sell, expand the website, and provide it as a website; not to mention that there is no service. The only restrictions a businessman wants are: the businessman. Merchants can: add or delete products, sell products online, all of them even notify the store that the person has an almost complete website or for the relevant website to order online customers, reset the photo, the number of creators, control the station's bill,

5. Description of the invention (17) The permitted business must be included on the website, or the storefront, and then only on the website. It should be clear to merchants, especially points. b. Regarding transactions, this embodiment mentions that it is appropriate to use business expenses and hosting to operate a website as a transaction service provider. Bandwidth usage will choose to perform other send messages. In addition, the transaction server is associated with the second purchase. It will be used to operate any network and provide the main server of the store server for sale.

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The price URL URL of the shop builder server that created the shop page is included elsewhere. Merchants are even able to completely remove the Internet by posting price URLs on newsgroups, or on the other. Decentralized e-commerce systems provide many major and superior service providers for all those merchants from small to medium-sized companies There are many different advantages to providing transaction service providers. Overhead is minimized. Most of the operating expenses are due to bandwidth requirements. When (h i t) is selected in each screen, information must be transmitted. If the person chooses not to host the online store, it will not be necessary for them to be connected to the online store. Anything related to shopping will be even less because it is assumed that many merchants use their own card verification, and In order to eliminate those reports, some embodiments that utilize a store builder server neither need to maintain the shopping basket, nor need to deal with each selection. The required amount is minimized. The transaction server does not need the main store ’s, nor does it need to maintain any shopping baskets and any information about merchants ’products, nor does it need to retain information about the business. In a preferred embodiment, the transaction server requires that the person's relevant information is all registered

5. Description of the invention (18), a list of people and their contact information. Obviously, however, many servers must remember the amount of locks sold so that they can send orders to merchants for their services, and they must also store additional information and statistics about merchants. The second 'is for businessmen to reduce barriers to e-commerce. This event benefits trading service providers because it opens up a whole new group of potential customers. The 34 potential customers are businessmen who are unable to perform non- decentralized online commerce. Fourth, the technique can also be scaled up and down. Transaction service providers can use a known transaction server to serve more merchants (due to the above (the many advantages mentioned above). If the sales volume grows, and the transaction server can reach it in terms of memory or bandwidth Threshold; then the paternity service knows that the donor can only add another transaction temple server, and causes the store builder feeder to direct certain traffic to it. The store builder servo Servers can also be scaled up and down and can be added if an additional server is required due to transaction volume. In that case, the transaction service provider can use a new server for future merchants; or , Even using a new server to guide current merchants to create any future price URLs (for new products or changes to existing products). '5. Virtual Commerce. To understand how they are commensurate with the extended concept of virtual commerce, It is useful to broaden some of the concepts proposed or discussed above. The website of a merchant who is the actual webpage can be considered as a The proposed high

V. Description of the invention (19) f ° Virtual stores can span-these / servers can be collectively called or more physical servers or computers, and 2 of the transaction service provider can be a store server system. Similarly, ^, and '罔 ^ are regarded as a virtual cashier, which spans the two cashier feeder systems. It can also include one or more servos, which can treat the store builder server as =, _ can develop a lot of criteria, and it can be regarded as decentralized. Such computer hosts operate some websites, can only regard it as a virtual entity and not a virtual entity (entity), or ^ ° · ·-. Accounted for-part of the virtual teller. In order to decide when these virtual criteria can be included: different servers or related instructions, each processing is executed with each website body; or, each website can only access ~ processor The same memory can exist in a public temple server to respond to different network addresses, it can be executed on the server, and in the same memory such as L, in the same processing path. When decentralized systems are indicated, the same hardware access network concept is included in this application. For the sake of endurance, many computers or servos that are part of each of these concepts are part of the server system of the store. Liangyi may also form a cashier server system. Although these virtual stores and cashiers are on the Internet, virtual reality is displayed on the World Wide Web: the current methods for accessing and displaying virtual entities are now available. The web browser runs on a personal computer, processes HTML pages with 'ΗTTTP' requests, and uses URLs to establish a link between two pages — links are a better mechanism or system for customers to access content Use. Software and computer technology will soon replace many of these standards

V. Description of the invention (20) In addition, it involves optics, magnetism, and Pab enough to generate and display virtual methods. These are examples of possible implementations of a decentralized business system on each road. 6 · General construction examples According to the many distributed quotients of the present invention, hardware, software, or both may use server applets on various host devices to accomplish this. And in such a 3.5-inch floppy diskette (diskette uses the floppy disk for program planning-a kind of implementation. It is also possible to use such power-supply wave-shaped computer-readable media to write functional programs. Although it has been disclosed Knowing the present invention-under the premise that those skilled in the art understand the scope, can hereby be directed to the 'the scope of the present invention is not limited to the scope of the patent application covering the application, modification, and The embodiments and other sciences and other technologies also intend many practical examples of the entity. When used to enable a network, it can be regarded as an alternative service system of the present invention, at least in part. For example, in a computer-readable medium that executes Java applications and feeds, such a functional program may be included), the information processing device is intended to be included in an instinct program such as a waveform that is calculated by calculation. It is used to transmit information to bite specific embodiments, but some changes should be made without departing from the spirit and specific embodiments of the present invention. For specific embodiments, it is intended to mean any and all such

Claims (1)

Sixth, the scope of patent application 1,. = Virtual store, in-decentralized bismuth used to handle business, the system includes: allowing a customer to make a shopping request, one customer, and one feeder coupled to the customer system It is a virtual member of the St. Book, used to receive product requests and payment 1: J the cashier responds to a first Internet address; the server ^ includes a virtual store, and the virtual store responds to the second response The virtual store includes: a receiving device for receiving a shopping request from one of the customer systems. The sending device is used to send a product request to a virtual cashier. 'And • If the virtual store in the scope of patent application No. 1, where: (J: The device includes the use of a generic asset f ΐ Γ ΐ that includes a hypertext index attached to specific product source indicators ("URLs"). A device that selects a known product and issues a corresponding URI virtual store; and, »The sending device includes a merchant identification message describing at least one and identifying the seller of the ^ -item product: The system includes: allowing a customer to submit a shopping request system, and coupling to one of the customer Ji Sui Wu Wufen ^ customer system = bracket. Virtual store, the total use of goods, and where the virtual store counterpoint: response ; The virtual teller used to receive product requests. The server system includes a virtual teller, and the virtual, teller i first, and weekly addresses responded. The virtual teller included. Used to receive from the virtual store. The first receiving device for product requests; page 26 6. The patent application fan garden and the second receiving device used to receive customers- and news from customers who are as close as the third in the scope of patent application. The device includes: a device for I cashier, where the first-then L. The team contains information about a single / according to the receipt. 5. If the patent application scope is the third device sentence cup.. The receiving customer has selected the product j. For example, the scope of the patent application includes the third item. The first receipt of the cashier's product is included in the first receipt < a list of the virtual cashier and the customer V4? The device included in the second device 7. A method for processing business, in the communication system of communication, in which the communication system J :: the sub-request system for processing business-the customer system, and The system includes: a virtual fiff-feeder request and payment information, a virtual cashier responds to a government-owned store to receive goods for shopping, and the virtual store responds to the address; the method includes the following steps : Diwang simulates the store to receive a shopping request from one of the customer's systems; and sends a product request from a virtual store to the virtual teller. 8. A method for processing commerce. $ 通 仏In the system, the communication system includes: a customer system that allows a customer to make a purchase, a customer system that requires a customer, and a server system that is coupled to the customer system, wherein the server system includes: a virtual cashier to receive applications Patent scope please f and payment information, virtual cashier responds to a ~~ and a virtual merchant € for shopping = address; address responds, · Shaw method includes the following steps · Proposed store pair-second Received from the virtual teller's office Received from the virtual teller's office from Gu Fkoukou monthly request, and 9. For example, the second party of Gu Fangtong who applied for item 8 of the scope of patent application also ^^^^^^ will send a transaction notice The owner of the virtual store sends the following steps: Sends a transaction confirmation message to the customer. ’And a computer-readable medium in a one-use messaging system, where the communication system includes: Decentralized communication; -Customer system and light-to-customer :: Gu Gu == The server system in request includes: a virtual cashier two; its payment information 'virtual cashier's first network forklift f' sum The virtual store is for shopping. The virtual store supports online ::: readable media containing program instructions for processing commerce. The red letter includes instructions for: 7 ^ The store receives from A shopping request from one of the customer systems; and a product request from one of the virtual stores is sent to the virtual teller. A computer-readable medium is a decentralized communication system used to manage business1. The communication system includes: a customer system that allows a customer to make a purchase request ^ a customer system, and a server system coupled to the customer system; The system includes ·.-A virtual cashier, used to receive product requests and ^ = bexun, the virtual cashier responds to a first network address; and a virtual quotient; S, for shopping, virtual store pair A second network bit Page 28 6. The scope of the patent application response; the computer-readable medium contains program instructions for processing business, the program instructions include instructions for: receiving a product request from a virtual store at a virtual teller; and The cashier receives payment information from the customer system. 1 2. If the media in the scope of patent application No. 11 also includes some order to :. send the transaction notice to the owner of the virtual store; and send the transaction confirmation message to the customer. Page 29