Abstract: Management of surge network traffic to an electronic commerce platform is described herein. A network traffic surge resistant system includes network storage and one or more servers configured as a commerce platform. The commerce platform operates an adaptor between the commerce platform and an inventory management system. The adaptor protects the inventory management system from transactions generated by a surge of network traffic directed at the commerce platform. The commerce platform generates a script, an offer package, and an offer instantiator based on inventory information received by the adaptor. The commerce platform stores the script and the offer package onto the network storage. The offer instantiator provides the location of the script and the offer package in the network.

Abstract: Method and apparatus are disclosed for collective electronic commerce and distribution of items, such as fungible items/goods and non-fungible items/goods. A system manages a universal ecommerce shopping cart to facilitate creating an itinerary for a group across multiple vendor websites/applications. The systems manages inventory to interface with multiple vendors, manages groups, and/or manages the assignment of fungible items (e.g., products) and non-fungible items (e.g., tickets, access to hotel rooms, etc.) that were selected for being purchased at different times.

Abstract: A system and method to manage a surge network traffic targeting a service-hosting platform are disclosed. For an offer of goods and/or services, the platform provider generates a static package that is placed in networked storage that is accessible through a web service interface. The package contains the information required to instantiate and render the interface of the service-hosting platform using the processor and resources of the computer that accesses the package via a browser. Based on the contents of the package, the rendered interface presents the services of the service-hosting platform using resources of the customer's computer without making any calls to a server to query a protected backend system. Access to the protected backend resources and platform resources is gated by threshold actions taken by the user.

Abstract: Systems and methods to manage surge network traffic to an electronic commerce platform are described. The platform provider generates a static package that is placed in networked storage that is accessible through a web service interface. The package contains the information required to instantiate and render the interface of the service-hosting platform using the processor and resources of the computer that accesses the package via a browser. Based on the contents of the package, the rendered interface presents the services of the service-hosting platform using resources of the customer's computer without making any calls to a server to query a protected backend system. The inventory may be refreshed from time-to-time without causing traffic directed at the service-hosting platform. Access to the protected backend resources and platform resources is gated by threshold actions taken by the user.

Abstract: A network traffic surge resistant platform is described herein. An example system includes a network storage, and one or more servers configured as a commerce platform including an authentication manager. The commerce platform generates a first secret code and sends the first secret code via a first communication medium associated with a first identifier. The commerce platform also generates a second secret code and sends the second secret code via a second communication medium associated with a second identifier. In response to determining the first input code matching the first secret code and the second input code matching the second secret code, the commerce platform authorizes a transaction associated with a particular browser and associates the transaction with a customer record associated with both the first and second identifiers.