METHOD AND SYSTEM OF MANAGING TRANSACTIONS
First Claim
1. A method of allowing vendors to sell products over multiple cable television networks where each network relies upon disparate interactive platforms to facilitate subscriber purchase of the products, the method comprising:
- associating a unique vendor ID with each vendor and a unique product ID with each product;
receiving an advertisement from at least one of the vendors, the advertisement including offers for purchasing one or more products being sold by the at least one of the vendors;
packaging the advertisement for inclusion within at least two of the interactive platforms, the packaging allowing subscribers to navigate and purchase the one or more products, the packaging including the vendor ID and the product ID for each product; and
upon receipt of a purchase confirmation message confirming subscriber purchase of one of the products, the purchase confirmation message including the product ID and vendor ID associated with the purchased product, issuing a purchase order for the product and vendor identified by the product ID and vendor ID included in the confirmation message.
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Abstract
Method and system of managing transactions. The transactions may be executed over different networks, such as but not limited to networks associated with different cable television service providers. The transactions may be monitored so that product purchases may be facilitated without requiring product vendors to support electronic communications with each of the networks. The transactions may also be monitored to tabulate metrics and other measurables reported from the different networks in such a manner that the vendors can receive a report without having to understand the reporting and tabulating means used by the different networks to measure the same metrics.
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1. A method of allowing vendors to sell products over multiple cable television networks where each network relies upon disparate interactive platforms to facilitate subscriber purchase of the products, the method comprising:
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associating a unique vendor ID with each vendor and a unique product ID with each product; receiving an advertisement from at least one of the vendors, the advertisement including offers for purchasing one or more products being sold by the at least one of the vendors; packaging the advertisement for inclusion within at least two of the interactive platforms, the packaging allowing subscribers to navigate and purchase the one or more products, the packaging including the vendor ID and the product ID for each product; and upon receipt of a purchase confirmation message confirming subscriber purchase of one of the products, the purchase confirmation message including the product ID and vendor ID associated with the purchased product, issuing a purchase order for the product and vendor identified by the product ID and vendor ID included in the confirmation message. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method of selling products over at least two networks having disparate messaging schemes, the method comprising:
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assigning unique vendor and product IDs to vendors desiring to sell products, each product being associated with a vendor ID and product ID to facilitate identifying the products and vendors; after the vendor and product IDs are assigned, including the vendor ID and product ID within transaction requests communicated from client-side devices used to purchase the products; and upon receipt of the transaction request, identifying the vendor and purchased product from the vendor ID and product ID included within the transaction request. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method of managing metrics tabulated from different cable television service providers, the method comprising:
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assigning metric IDs to a number of metrics to be measured by the service providers; instructing the service providers to include the metric ID with the measure metric; and tabulating the measured metrics from multiple service providers based on the metric IDs included with the measurements. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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