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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2003
Tsz Simon Cheng, Grand Prairie, TX (US);
Brent W. Cossey, Roanoke, TX (US);
Gregory P. Fitzpatrick, Keller, TX (US);
Tsz Simon Cheng, Grand Prairie, TX (US);
Brent W. Cossey, Roanoke, TX (US);
Gregory P. Fitzpatrick, Keller, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An electronic commerce method can include the step of determining a plurality of e-commerce partners. For each partner, a partner identifier can be presented within a commerce GUI. In the commerce GUI, the partner identifier can be an expandable node. An expansion of at least one of the nodes can be presented within the commerce GUI. For each expansion, a transaction identifier can be presented as a child node of the expanded node. The transaction identifier can represent an electronic commerce transaction between a user of the commerce GUI and the associated e-commerce partner.