User selectable earth imagery on-line e-commerce and fulfillment system
First Claim
1. A method for offering for purchase by a computer earth imagery content of a user-selected desired geospatial area, the earth imagery content being delivered in the form of a photo product, the method comprising the steps of:
- (a) receiving earth imagery metadata from a plurality of earth imagery content providers and storing the earth imagery metadata in a plurality of databases;
(b) overlaying the earth imagery metadata on a mapping application for display;
(c) interacting, by a user, over a network channel with the mapping application, including locating a geographical area on a computer display via the mapping application, and selecting via an on-line, interactive man-machine interface a desired geospatial area represented by user defined polygons;
(d) converting the user-selected geographical area represented by the user defined polygons to a data string;
(e) transmitting the data string over a network channel to a fulfillment provider; and
(f) generating by the fulfillment provider a photo product of the desired geographical area in a format selected by the user;
wherein interacting via the on-line, interactive man-machine interface includes(i) viewing, by the user, geographic data on the computer display, including a map,(ii) locating, by the user, a spatial location on the map, and(iii) dynamically selecting, by the user, a geographical area, including the spatial location, enclosed by a user defined polygon, providing substantially limitless size and shape variability,(g) offering the user a choice of photo products;
(h) a price and a delivery time of the photo product and a location of the fulfillment provider are dependent on the desired geospatial area and format selected; and
(i) the price is automatically and proportionally determined by a computer of the fulfillment provider, in response to a size of dynamically selected polygons on the display of the user, and transmitted by the fulfillment provider, by way of the network channel, for display on the display of the user.
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Abstract
A method is taught for offering for purchase user selected earth imagery content in the form of a photo product. The method comprises the steps of receiving earth imagery metadata from a plurality of earth imagery content providers; overlaying the earth imagery metadata on a mapping application provided by a service provider that offers earth imagery content; a user communicating over a channel with the service provider, the user locating a geographical area via the mapping application and dynamically selecting via the on-line interactive man-machine interface a desired geospatial area represented by one or more user defined polygons; converting the user-selected geospatial area represented by one or more polygons to a data string; and transmitting the data string over a channel to a fulfillment provider, the fulfillment provider generating a photo product of the desired geospatial area in a format selected by the user.
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1. A method for offering for purchase by a computer earth imagery content of a user-selected desired geospatial area, the earth imagery content being delivered in the form of a photo product, the method comprising the steps of:
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(a) receiving earth imagery metadata from a plurality of earth imagery content providers and storing the earth imagery metadata in a plurality of databases; (b) overlaying the earth imagery metadata on a mapping application for display; (c) interacting, by a user, over a network channel with the mapping application, including locating a geographical area on a computer display via the mapping application, and selecting via an on-line, interactive man-machine interface a desired geospatial area represented by user defined polygons; (d) converting the user-selected geographical area represented by the user defined polygons to a data string; (e) transmitting the data string over a network channel to a fulfillment provider; and (f) generating by the fulfillment provider a photo product of the desired geographical area in a format selected by the user; wherein interacting via the on-line, interactive man-machine interface includes (i) viewing, by the user, geographic data on the computer display, including a map, (ii) locating, by the user, a spatial location on the map, and (iii) dynamically selecting, by the user, a geographical area, including the spatial location, enclosed by a user defined polygon, providing substantially limitless size and shape variability, (g) offering the user a choice of photo products; (h) a price and a delivery time of the photo product and a location of the fulfillment provider are dependent on the desired geospatial area and format selected; and (i) the price is automatically and proportionally determined by a computer of the fulfillment provider, in response to a size of dynamically selected polygons on the display of the user, and transmitted by the fulfillment provider, by way of the network channel, for display on the display of the user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39)
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40. A computer method for offering for purchase user-selected earth imagery content of a desired geospatial area in the form of a photo product comprising the steps of:
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(a) receiving, by a computer, earth imagery metadata from a plurality of earth imagery content providers; (b) overlaying the earth imagery metadata on a mapping application, the earth imagery metadata provided by a service provider; (c) communicating, by a user, over a network channel with the service provider, the user locating a geographical area via the mapping application and dynamically selecting via an on-line, interactive man-machine interface a desired geospatial area represented by one or more user defined polygons; (d) converting the user-selected geospatial area represented by one or more polygons to a data string; (e) transmitting the data string over a network channel to a computer of the fulfillment provider; and (f) the fulfillment provider generating a photo product of the desired geospatial area in a format selected by the user, based on the user defined polygons dynamically selected on a computer display of the user, (g) offering the user a choice of photo products; (h) proportionally determining in the computer of the fulfillment provider, a price for the desired geospatial area, in response to a size of the polygons selected by the user on the display of the user; and (i) transmitting, from the fulfillment provider, by way of the network channel, the price for viewing on the display of the user, free-of any human intervention at a location of the fulfillment provider.
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