摘要 |
<p>A descriptive-profile mercantile method is disclosed, for use at a juncture in a data-communications topology having associated therewith a maintained databank of partial profiles. The method provides a means for making viable an economic commerce in information attributes, and enables a brokerage representation model for these attributes in the electronic commerce marketplace. The method includes the steps of (A) from a user, receiving a transaction having therein a first partial profile; (B) using the first partial profile, searching a databank having a plurality of second partial profiles; and (C) between the user and the databank, contracting for the user or the databank to own or represent a right to a portion of the partial profile.</p> |