| 摘要 |
An apparatus, including a processor adapted to process information regarding a principal or an agent, and adapted to provide an electronic forum or chat room, for facilitating a virtual meeting for allowing the agent to correspond, communicate, conduct a discussion, or to engage in a negotiation, with a third party on behalf of the principal. The processor is adapted to provide or transmit the electronic forum or chat room to a communication device associated with the principal and the processor or the electronic forum or chat room is adapted to allow the principal to participate in, access, or monitor, a communication, discussion, or negotiation, between, with, or involving, the agent and the third party. The principal is able terminate the communication, discussion, or negotiation, to disavow, agree with, or supersede, an action of the agent, or to accept or reject an agreement. |
| 主权项 |
1. An apparatus, comprising:
a memory device, wherein the memory device is adapted to store information regarding a principal and an agent of the principal, and further wherein the memory device is adapted to store information regarding an interaction between the agent and a third party; a processor, wherein the processor is adapted to process information regarding the principal or regarding the agent, and further wherein the processor is also adapted to provide an electronic forum, a virtual forum, an on-line forum, or a web-based forum, or a chat room, for facilitating a virtual meeting for allowing the agent to correspond with or to communicate with, to conduct a discussion with, or to engage in a negotiation with, a third party on behalf of the principal, wherein the processor or the apparatus is adapted to provide or to transmit the electronic forum, the virtual forum, the on-line forum, or the web-based forum, or the chat room, to a communication device associated with the principal, and further wherein the processor or the electronic forum, the virtual forum, the on-line forum, or the web-based forum, or the chat room, is adapted to allow the principal to participate in, to access, or to monitor, a communication, a discussion, or a negotiation, between, with, or involving, the agent and the third party, and further wherein the processor or the electronic forum, the virtual forum, the on-line forum, or the web-based forum, or the chat room, is also adapted to allow the principal to terminate the communication, the discussion, or the negotiation, to disavow any action of the agent, to agree with an action of the agent, to supersede an action of the agent, or to accept an agreement or to reject an agreement, while the agent and the third party are engaged in the communication, the discussion, or the negotiation, wherein the apparatus is adapted to store information regarding the communication, the discussion, or the negotiation in the memory device or in a database. |
