Stanford U. Electronic Commerce, Legal Pointers

• Electronic Payment Mechanisms
• Information Brokers and Search Engines
• Copyright and Intellectual Property Issues
• A Sound and Complete Distributed Algorithm for Distributed Commerce Transactions
  • by S. Ketchpel et al., Oct. 23, 1996
  • Appendix, p. 65, gives data structures:
    • TaskRecord: Document (Document_ID), SourceAgent (Agent_ID), ClientAgent, TrustedIntermediary, Deadline, Ult_Deadline (time by which ultimate customer must receive goods), DocStatus (nothing, requested, sent, received, expired), MoneyStatus, SRPointer (pointer to SetRecord)
    • SetRecord: Parent (pointer to SetRecord), ClientTR (TaskRecord), SourceTRs (set of TaskRecord)
  • See also S. Ketchpel. Transaction protection for information buyers and sellers. In Proc. of the Dartmouth Inst. for Advanced Graduate Studies 95: Electronic Publishing and the Information Superhighway, 1995 online