Patent ID: 7330830

Claim:
A computer-implemented networked commercial interaction management method, comprising the steps of: distributing information bundles from different ones of a first plurality of different networked users to different ones of a second plurality of different networked users according to a machine-readable format that includes values for a plurality of content attribute descriptors, wherein each of the information bundles includes values for a plurality of information fields characterizing commercial interactions associated with at least one of the first and second plurality of different networked users, and wherein a portion of said content attribute descriptors include business language definition descriptors that specify the descriptive metadata of each of the information bundles, wherein the business language definition descriptors comprise at least one keyword having at least one value; monitoring the distribution from the first plurality of different networked users to the second plurality of different networked users by a statistics engine; monitoring at least one response from the second plurality of different networked users by the statistics engine; managing commercial interactions between at least one of the first plurality of different networked users and at least one of the second plurality of different networked users using the information bundles; based on the at least one keyword and the at least one value of the business language definition descriptors, deriving first traffic statistics based on the distribution from the first plurality of different networked users to the second plurality of different networked users by the statistics engine; and based on the at least one keyword and the at least one value of the business language definition descriptors, deriving second traffic statistics based on the at least one response from the second plurality of different networked users by the statistics engine.