Patent ID: 8359251

Claim:
A networked computer system for managing commercial interactions, comprising: a computer system having; a bundle-passing interface implemented by the computer system transmitting data bundles from different ones of a first plurality of different networked users to different ones of a second plurality of different networked users, wherein the bundles comprise meta data including a plurality of business language definitions, wherein the business language definitions comprise at least one keyword having at least one value, and wherein the interface comprises distribution logic to electronically transmit the bundles responsive to the meta data in the bundles; and a statistics collection engine implemented by the computer system, monitoring the transmission from the first plurality of different networked users to the second plurality of different networked users, monitoring at least one response from the second plurality of different networked users, and collecting usage statistics whenever the bundles are created, modified, or downloaded, based on the at least one keyword and the at least one value of the business language definition descriptors.