Patent ID: 7287089

Claim:
A networked commercial interaction management method, comprising the steps of: assembling information into bundles, wherein each bundle comprises a data element, a data element reference and meta data describing the data element, wherein each data element remains resident on a node of a data owner in a network, wherein there is a plurality of versions of at least one of the bundles and wherein each of the plurality of versions is identified by a bundle version identifying signal, periodically issuing bundle version identifying signals to the different nodes of the network, the bundle version identifying signals indicating changes to the data elements to the network nodes of accessors, distributing the meta data and the data element reference from the bundles through the network, and distributing copies of the data elements in the bundles assembled in the step of assembling from the network node of their respective data owners to the network nodes of accessors following selection of the data elements by the accessors using the meta data and the data element reference distributed through the network.