| 摘要 |
<p>In conducting business transactions in the current electronic commerce environment, buyers may not be certain about seller's identity and reliability. Because of the inherent difficulty to ascertain sellers' identity and reliability over a computer network (such as the Internet), the buyers may never receive the goods or services ordered or only receive defective goods or substandard services. The uncertainty about seller's identity and reliability severely hinders the transactions over the Internet. To overcome this problem, a verification process is provided to facilitate the transactions between buyers and sellers. In receiving a request from a buyer to initiate a transaction over the Internet, a seller sends a verification identification to the buyer. The buyer then designates a verification node and sends the verification identification to the verification node over the Internet for the verification of the seller and a guarantee for the transaction. After receiving the verification and/or guarantee, the buyer then completes the transaction with the seller over the Internet.</p> |
