Using commerce networks to facilitate business interactions among entities

摘要

The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates business interaction. During operation, the system obtains a model of a commerce network containing a set of entities, a set of relationships among the entities, a set of interactions related to commerce among the entities, and a set of activities associated with the entities. Next, the system uses the model to enable an interaction among two or more entities from the set of entities independently of a set of endpoints used by the entities to access the commerce network.