| 摘要 |
<p>A computer system for carrying out an e-commerce transaction includes a web page server (180) configured to provide access to a web page of an e-commerce vendor and to accept payment request information from a user, the web page server (180) (such as a payment processor) is configured to process payment requests and is coupled to the computer network. A fast web interface server is coupled to the transaction server (170), preferably by a dedicated broadland connection, and is configured to receive payment request information from the web page server, to send the received payment request information to the transaction server (170) and to receive a reply from the transaction server (170) after the transaction server has processed the payment request using the received payment request information, the reply indicating success or failure of the purchase request. The fast web interface server, network architectures and systems using same according to the present invention separate the large concurrent delivery of typically multimedia rich content provided by web page servers from the very small packets of information associated with a commitment to buy or sell goods and services electronically. The present fast web interface server dramatically reduces the delay between the user's commitment and confirmation of the success or failure of the underlying e-commerce transaction by handling these very small packets of information separately from the delivery of content by the web page servers.</p> |
