METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NEGOTIATING ELECTRONIC CONTRACT, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING ELECTRONIC COMMERCE, AND METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SECURELY MANAGING ELECTRONIC NEGOTIATION ELECTRONIC COMMERCE VALUES CHAIN ACTIVITY, METHOD FOR MANAGING DISTRIBUTED ELECTRONIC COMMERSE ENVIRONMENT, AND METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SECURELY MANAGING DISTRIBUTED ELECTRONIC COMMERCE ENVIRONMENT

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system and a method for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection.;SOLUTION: An electronic device, equipped with a computer or the like, assures access or use only in an approved mode and assists the maintenance of the integrity, availability and/or confidentiality of information. Such an electronic for controlling and/or measuring, or monitoring the use of information which is electronically stored or disseminated, offers a distributed virtual distribution environment (VDE), in which a secure chain of processing and control can be executed. VDE is used, in electronic commerce and other electronic handling or such handling as facilitated electronically, for the protection of rights of various participants. Distributed and other actuating systems, environment and architecture, for instance, use a processor of tamper-proof hardware base, and can establish security at each node. These technologies can be used for supporting all electronic information distribution which utilizes "electronic highway".;COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO