Patent ID: 7870032
Filing Date: 2011-01-11
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. An electronic commerce system, which comprises: a plurality of customer facing utility systems, each of said customer facing utility systems coupled to a customer facing communication network, wherein the plurality of customer facing utility systems are each configured to communicate with customer systems coupled to the customer facing communication network, and each of said customer facing utility systems having associated therewith authoritative data that is writable to by said customer facing utility system and read-only data, wherein data written to said authoritative data of any one of said customer facing utility systems is replicated to the authoritative data of each of the other customer facing utility systems; a firm side system, said firm side system having associated therewith authoritative data that is writable to by said firm side system and read-only data, wherein data written to said authoritative data of said firm side systems is replicated to the read-only data of each of said customer facing utility systems; and a plurality of street side systems, each of said street side systems being adapted to communicate with street systems, each of said street side systems having associated therewith authoritative data that is writable to by said street side system and read-only data, wherein data written to said authoritative data of any one of said street side systems is replicated to the authoritative data of each of the other street side systems.