Patent ID: 9105059
Filing Date: 2015-08-11
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of conducting an electronic commerce transaction with a customer, comprising: receiving, by a broker computer system, data representative of a virtual shopping cart for a customer from a remote merchant, the cart identifying an item offered by the merchant for purchase in an electronic commerce transaction by the customer and indicating that a custom calculation is used for the electronic commerce transaction; identifying, by the broker computer system, customer information regarding the transaction by interacting with the customer at a domain of the broker computer system; providing, by the broker computer system, the customer information to the remote merchant and requesting from the merchant a result of the custom calculation utilizing the customer information; receiving, by the broker computer system, the result of the custom calculation from the remote merchant, the result based at least in part on a calculation performed by the merchant using the customer information; calculating, by the broker computer system, a price for the transaction responsive to the result of the custom calculation received from the remote merchant; and conducting, by the broker computer system, the electronic commerce transaction with the customer at the calculated price without the customer leaving the domain of the broker computer system.