Patent ID: 7249065

Claim:
A computer system hosting an executable commerce site for exchanging commerce information with a plurality of remote store sites and shopper clients over a computer network, the executable commerce site comprising: a marketplace store for exchanging information with shopper clients and remote store sites through the computer network; and a plurality of proxy stores, each proxy store corresponding with one of the remote store sites for communicating therewith over the computer network and acting as an intermediary for information exchanged between the corresponding remote store site and the marketplace store; a catalog identifying an aggregation of assets offered through a plurality of remote store sites connected to the computer network; wherein the marketplace store has access to the catalog for creating a parent list identifying assets selected from the catalog by one of the shopper clients over the network; and each proxy store is configured for reading the parent list and creating a first request identifying at least some of the assets in the parent list and sending the first request over the computer network to the remote store site associated therewith.