Method and system for providing home shopping programs

• US 20040049434A1
• Filed: 09/10/2003
• Published: 03/11/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Individual Network LLC
• Original Assignee: Individual Network LLC
• Inventors: Khoo, Denis, Ratcliff, Raymond F. III
• Application Number:
  US10/659,080
• Publication Number:
  US 20040049434A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0271 Personalized advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25883 being end-user demographical data, e.g. age, family status or address arrangements for identifying locations of users in broadcast systems H04H60/52
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25891 being end-user preferences retrieval of video data in a video database based on user preferences G06F16/739; arrangements for recognizing users' preferences H04H60/46; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44224 Monitoring of user activity on external systems, e.g. Internet browsing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47202 for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4755 for defining user preferences, e.g. favourite actors or genre retrieval personalisation and generation of user profiles for the retrieval of video data G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47815 Electronic shopping payment schemes, payment architectures or payment protocols for electronic shopping systems G06Q20/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4826 using recommendation lists, e.g. of programs or channels sorted out according to their score
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6582 Data stored in the client, e.g. viewing habits, hardware capabilities, credit card number arrangements where receivers interact with the broadcast H04H20/38
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

The present invention includes a method and system for providing home shopping programs to a viewer. An exemplary method includes receiving personalized data from a viewer, generating a home shopping program list that identifies a plurality of home shopping programs related to the personalized data, and transmitting the home shopping program list and a home shopping program that is listed in the program list to the viewer.

Claims

1. A method for providing home shopping programs to a viewer, comprising:

receiving personalized data from a viewer;

generating a home shopping program list that identifies a plurality of home shopping programs related to the personalized data; and

transmitting a home shopping program identified in the home shopping program list to the viewer.

2. A method for providing home shopping programs to a viewer, comprising:

providing a client in communication with a server;

transmitting personalized data over the client to the server;

receiving a home shopping program list that identifies a plurality of home shopping programs related to the personalized data;

receiving a home shopping program that is listed on the home shopping program list; and

displaying the home shopping program on a display means of the client.

3. A computer system for providing home shopping programs to a viewer, comprising:

a memory for storing personalized data, home shopping program lists, and home shopping programs; and

a processor in communication with the memory, wherein the processor is operative to

receive personalized data from a viewer,

generate a home shopping program list that identifies a plurality of home shopping programs related to the personalized data, and

transmit a home shopping program identified in the home shopping program list to the viewer.

4. A computer system for providing home shopping programs to a viewer, comprising:

means for receiving personalized data from the viewer;

means for generating a home shopping program list that identifies a plurality of home shopping programs related to the personalized data; and

means for transmitting a home shopping program identified in the home shopping program list to the viewer.

5. A computer system for providing home shopping programs to a viewer, comprising:

means for receiving personalized data from a viewer;

means for transmitting the personalized data to a server;

means for receiving a home shopping program list that identifies a plurality of home shopping programs related to the personalized data from the server;

means for receiving a home shopping program, identified on the home shopping program list, from the server; and

means for displaying the home shopping program to the viewer.