| 摘要 |
A system (20) for conducting interactive electronic commerce, including shopping, bill payment and investment portfolio activities, across a network, such as the Internet, among multiple merchant sites (24), multiple billing sites (25) or multiple investment sites (26). The system includes tools that facilitate such activities, which tools are displayed as frames in a portion of the display of a user's computer. Remaining portions of the display of a user's computer may be filled with content from a merchant site, payment site, investment site or other site of interest. Information may be readily transferred from, for example, the web page of a merchant site to an e-catalog (124) where information concerning an item of interest is stored. Templates (122) are provided for facilitating entry of such information. An order may be submitted to multiple merchant sites based on the contents of the e-catalog as a single operation. Similarly, bills may be paid to multiple billing sites as a single operation and investment transactions may be effected with multiple investment sites as a single operation.
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