Network based intelligent electronic commerce

Abstract

With recent innovations in Internet, Intranet, and World Wide Web, and user friendly capabilities of dynamic HTML, video streaming schemes, and virtual reality based 3D modeling, it is now completely possible to conduct electronic commerce on the Internet. 3D dynamic images of consumer products can be housed on remote file servers and can be observed by the clients elsewhere. The remote clients can also interactively communicate with the host server to observe and monitor the functional behavior of the product under consideration, leading to the concept of electronic commerce. The author discusses the network based electronic commerce concepts, common gateway interface and video streaming methodologies suitable for electronic commerce.