Method and system for providing commercial information and operating an electronic commerce system over a global communications network with company and constituency nodes

摘要

An electronic commerce system for use over a global communications network and having both company nodes and constituency nodes comprises a data repository and a communications controller. The data repository stores data files contain commercial information relating to the company associated with a company node. The communications controller allow a specific company node to modify commercial information in the data files relating to the respective company and to control times at which selected portions of the commercial information is first made available to the constituency nodes, propagates communication interfaces accessible by the constituency nodes with selected portions of the commercial information under direction of the company nodes, and gathers feedback information representative of constituency response to the constituency nodes accessing the communication interfaces.