System and method for facilitating communication of data among entities in an electronic trading network

摘要

An electronic commerce protocol stack includes a connectivity layer that receives business data from a first entity. The business data indicates that the destination of the business data is a second entity. The protocol stack also includes a translation layer that receives the business data and that translates the business data as appropriate for the second entity using one or more translation rules. The protocol stack also includes a semantic routing layer that receives the translated business data, determines the semantic meaning of at least a portion of the business data using one or more semantics rules, determines one or more appropriate destinations for the business data based on the semantic meaning, and communicates the business data the determined destinations to the connectivity layer. The connectivity layer communicates the business data to the determined destinations.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented system that facilitates communication of data among entities in an electronic trading network, comprising:
a computer system, comprising a semantic routing layer tangibly embodied on a computer-readable medium and configured to:
receive data from a first entity using a connectivity protocol;interpret the content of the data using one or more semantic rules, wherein the content of the data interpreted using one or more semantic rules comprises one or more of:
a deadline associated with the data;a monetary value associated with the data; anda shipping destination associated with the data;determine one or more entities as a destination for the data based on the semantic meaning of the content of the data; anddetermine, based on the one or more semantics rules, whether to communicate the data to the one or more determined entities to the connectivity layer or take action on behalf of the one or more determined entities without communicating the data.