Content sensitive point-of-sale system for interactive media
First Claim
1. A system and method for automatically detecting and presenting for sale on an interactive electronic device products and services relevant to the content being viewed on said device at the time, comprising the steps of:
- (a) automatically identifying products and services that are relevant to said content,(b) selecting from said relevant products and services those which match at least one of a plurality of user characteristics including but not limited to current interests, preferences, demographics, location, and device attributes,(c) ranking said selected products and services according to at least one of a plurality of ranking methods including but not limited to sales, popularity, third party critical rating, price, date of market introduction and relevance to said content,(d) presenting said ranked products and services in a concurrent shopping window, and(e) enabling the user to complete the purchase substantially within said shopping window and its associated transaction windows,whereby the user is automatically informed of products and services relevant to said content being viewed, and is presented with an opportunity to purchase said products and services directly without closing or leaving said content page.
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Abstract
A system and method are described for offering items and services for sale that are related to content being displayed in an interactive medium such as the world wide web, public kiosks, hand-held PDAs, tablets, television and other digital devices. The system uses a combination of techniques to select from a catalog of items those which have the greatest relevance to the content being viewed at the time, and it presents those items concurrently in point-of-sale window, allowing the user to purchase the items directly without leaving the content page. Unlike content-sensitive advertising which presents ads even when the relevance of those ads to the content is low, the system alerts the user to the presence of relevant products, presents a point of sale window only if the user requests it, and pays the content publisher a portion of the revenue from sales initiated on his content page.
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13 Claims
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1. A system and method for automatically detecting and presenting for sale on an interactive electronic device products and services relevant to the content being viewed on said device at the time, comprising the steps of:
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(a) automatically identifying products and services that are relevant to said content, (b) selecting from said relevant products and services those which match at least one of a plurality of user characteristics including but not limited to current interests, preferences, demographics, location, and device attributes, (c) ranking said selected products and services according to at least one of a plurality of ranking methods including but not limited to sales, popularity, third party critical rating, price, date of market introduction and relevance to said content, (d) presenting said ranked products and services in a concurrent shopping window, and (e) enabling the user to complete the purchase substantially within said shopping window and its associated transaction windows, whereby the user is automatically informed of products and services relevant to said content being viewed, and is presented with an opportunity to purchase said products and services directly without closing or leaving said content page. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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