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An electronic non-repudiation multivariate negotiations engine for iterative bargaining which: enables a sponsor to create and administer a community between participants such as buyers and sellers having similar interests; allows a buyer/participant to search and evaluate seller information, propos

An electronic non-repudiation multivariate negotiations engine for iterative bargaining which: enables a sponsor to create and administer a community between participants such as buyers and sellers having similar interests; allows a buyer/participant to search and evaluate seller information, propose and negotiate orders and counteroffers that include all desired terms, request sample quantities, and track activity; allows a seller/participant to use remote authoring templates to create a complete Website for immediate integration and activation in the community, to evaluate proposed buyer orders and counteroffers, and to negotiate multiple variables such as prices, terms, conditions etc., iteratively with a buyer. The system provides secure databases, search engines, and other tools for use by the sponsor, which enable the sponsor to define the terms of community participation, establish standards, help promote the visibility of participating companies, monitor activity, collect fees, and promote successes. The system maintains internal databases that contain the permanent history of all transactions in each community, so that sponsors, buyers and sellers may retrieve appropriate records to document each stage of interaction and negotiation. Documents are created by the system during the negotiation process.

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1. An apparatus for providing electronic non-repudiation in a negotiations system, comprising:a network having a secure communication path; a multivariate negotiations system including control software for providing a controlled access to a secure storage space, negotiations software, such negotiati

1. An apparatus for providing electronic non-repudiation in a negotiations system, comprising:a network having a secure communication path; a multivariate negotiations system including control software for providing a controlled access to a secure storage space, negotiations software, such negotiations software including archiving software, and an automated negotiations engine for analyzing terms, the analysis of terms comprising understanding the purpose of the terms, formatting the terms according to the purpose, processing the terms using the archiving software, and placing them into user supplied context for use by a user, the multivariate negotiations system being connected to the network and responsive to terminals communicating along a secure communications path over the network; a destination terminal for a first user connected to the network, the destination terminal including software for encrypting and sending terms and decrypting and receiving terms along a secure communications path over the network which flows through the multivariate negotiations engine system; an initiating terminal for a second user connected to the network, the initiating terminal including software for encrypting and sending terms and decrypting and receiving terms along a secure communications path over the network which flows through the multivariate negotiations engine system, during iterative processing the archiving software capturing each set of decrypted proposed terms sent by a terminal and permanently storing each decrypted set of proposed terms as a record in the secure storage space, the automated negotiations engine recognizing the users at the destination terminal and the initiating terminal as negotiators and recognizing one of the users as a deciding entity, such automated negotiations engine further recognizing any changes in the terms and storing in the storage space the terms each terminal proposes, and recognizing the terminal to which proposed terms are being sent as the indicated terminal, sending terms to the indicated terminal, the automated negotiations engine indicating any changes in the terms until a set of terms is acted upon in a final manner by the deciding entity.