Transaction Process Controller with User History, Selectable Profile Controls, Confirmation and User Control Options for Shopping with Video On Demand Cable Systems
First Claim
1. A purchasing method permitting a user-viewer to participate in a purchasing program for goods and services via a user-viewer'"'"'s interactive television set communicatively coupled via a cable system network to a cable head end which is communicatively coupled via a communications network to a shop on-demand computer server, each interactive television set having unique set identification (id) code for differentiation in said cable system network comprising:
- advertising said goods or services upon command of said user-viewer via said interactive television set and said cable head end;
in response to a buy-now command by said user-viewer for specific goods or services, generating a transaction id code with an algorithm correlated to said set id code, said transaction id code corresponding to said specific goods or services;
displaying transaction id code to said user-viewer on said interactive television set and transmitting said transaction id code to said shop on-demand computer server via said cable head end or to a shop on-demand client application operative at said cable head end.
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Abstract
The VOD purchasing method enables a user-viewer to purchase goods via a shop OD (on-demand) process on an interactive TV (STB enabled TV). The user selects shop OD goods and the STB-TV creates a transaction ID code with the STB-ID code or the cable head end (HE) or shop OD client application at the HE creates the trans-ID. The trans-ID is displayed on the user'"'"'s TV. If created at the HE, the trans-ID is sent as metadata or configured VA to the STB-TV. Supplemental communications channels may deliver carry trans-ID to the user (cell phone, VoIP, land-line telephone, Internet or fax). User profile data is gathered via supple-comm channel lists purchasing limits (time, day, monetary, and PIN). The shop OD computer server limits purchases thereby. Financial fraud and abuse parameters are set at the OD server as are parental control parameters.
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29 Claims
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1. A purchasing method permitting a user-viewer to participate in a purchasing program for goods and services via a user-viewer'"'"'s interactive television set communicatively coupled via a cable system network to a cable head end which is communicatively coupled via a communications network to a shop on-demand computer server, each interactive television set having unique set identification (id) code for differentiation in said cable system network comprising:
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advertising said goods or services upon command of said user-viewer via said interactive television set and said cable head end;
in response to a buy-now command by said user-viewer for specific goods or services, generating a transaction id code with an algorithm correlated to said set id code, said transaction id code corresponding to said specific goods or services;
displaying transaction id code to said user-viewer on said interactive television set and transmitting said transaction id code to said shop on-demand computer server via said cable head end or to a shop on-demand client application operative at said cable head end. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A purchasing method permitting a user-viewer to purchase goods and services via a user-viewer'"'"'s interactive television set communicatively coupled via a cable system network to a cable head end which is communicatively coupled via a communications network to a shop on-demand computer server, each interactive television set having unique set identification (id) code for differentiation in said cable system network comprising:
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advertising said goods or services upon command of said user-viewer via said interactive television set and said cable head end;
in response to a buy-now command by said user-viewer for specific goods or services transmitted via said interactive television set to said cable head end, generating a transaction id code with an algorithm correlated to said set id code, said transaction id code corresponding to said specific goods or services;
transmitting said transaction id code to said interactive television set for display thereon for said user-viewer. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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