| 摘要 |
One or more embodiments of the invention provide a method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for enabling global electronic transactions. Multiple hubs are maintained strategically and physically distributed in geographical regions around the world, wherein each hub can support a vertical e-marketplace. The hubs are interconnected to form a secure, persistent, recoverable, reliable, scalable global transaction infrastructure (GTI) network that enables each hub to communicate electronically with the other hubs. Business to business e-commerce services are provided on each hub through an internet trading center (ITC). Each ITC is configured to provide document exchange services for transactions within a geographic region and the ITC of two or mote hubs communicate together to provide document exchanges services for transactions between geographic regions. Additionally, each ITC is customized for the geographic region of each hub.
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