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Shopping on Demand Transactional System with Data Warehousing Feature, Data Tracking, Shopping Cart Reservation Feature, Purchase Commentary and External Marketing Incentives Deployed in Video On Demand Cable Systems

  • US 20070107021A1
  • Filed: 11/06/2006
  • Published: 05/10/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2005
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A purchasing method permitting a user-viewer to participate in a purchasing program for goods and services with an on-line shopping list, said shopping list and purchasing method deployed 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, said shop on-demand computer server communicatively coupled to supplemental communications channels including a cellular telephone communications network, a voice over internet protocol (VoIP) communications network, a terrestrial telephone network, and a global computer communications network (Internet), the purchasing method with an on-line shopping list comprising:

  • advertising said goods or services upon command of said user-viewer via said interactive television set and said cable head end;

    enrolling said user-viewer into said shop on-demand purchasing program;

    gathering prospective orders for specific goods or services from said user-viewer as a shopping list on said shop on-demand computer server via at least one of said supplemental communications channels including said cellular telephone communications network, said VoIP communications network, said terrestrial telephone network, and said Internet;

    effecting a display of said shopping list and said prospective specific goods or services from the enrolled user-viewer via shopping list formative signal from the group of shopping list formative signals including video on demand (VOD) menu metadata, VOD asset metadata, a VOD asset from said cable head end and a VOD asset from a shop on-demand client application operative at said cable head end.

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