摘要 |
An e-commerce system for electronic transactions using external transaction units for transactions, networks for interconnecting the transaction units with one or more market engines. The market engine supervises transactions based on information gathered from the e-commerce system. The market engine includes a plurality of components for processing transactions including transaction unit interface components for interfacing with transaction units; execution components for executing transactions and a connection element connecting said components. Each of the plurality of components includes computers, operating systems executing on the computers and application processes executing on the computers under control of the operating systems. The application processes include a function application for executing functions, a communication application for controlling communication among the components, a resource management component for controlling the allocation of processes among the computers.
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