Remotely managing and controlling a consumer appliance
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1. A method comprising:
- providing a customer identifier together with information about the identified customer'"'"'s preferences to a service provider;
receiving a plurality of graphical user interfaces from said service provider, each graphical user interface of said plurality of graphical user interfaces to include content related to the products or services of a particular retail vendor, the content customized, at least in part, based on said information and not to include advertising for another retail vendor; and
preventing the identified customer from using Internet services through said service provider without the customer first viewing, in sequence, at least three graphical user interfaces from said plurality.
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Abstract
A processor-based system utilized by a consumer may be controlled and managed by a service provider for the benefit of a retail vendor. The service provider may control the content that is displayed on the client system. For example, the service provider may control the initial sets of graphical user interfaces that are provided to enable the consumer to make service selections. In addition, the consumer may be asked for information that enables the system to customize subsequent information provided to the consumer. As a result, the consumer'"'"'s processor-based system may be remotely managed and controlled to facilitate communications between a particular retail vendor and a consumer.
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1. A method comprising:
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providing a customer identifier together with information about the identified customer'"'"'s preferences to a service provider; receiving a plurality of graphical user interfaces from said service provider, each graphical user interface of said plurality of graphical user interfaces to include content related to the products or services of a particular retail vendor, the content customized, at least in part, based on said information and not to include advertising for another retail vendor; and preventing the identified customer from using Internet services through said service provider without the customer first viewing, in sequence, at least three graphical user interfaces from said plurality. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A method comprising:
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keeping a record of a user'"'"'s activities on an activity graphical user interface, the activity graphical user interface received on a processor-based system from a service provider, said activity graphical user interface to include content that is customized for the user on behalf of a particular retail vendor, said activity user interface without content from other, unrelated retail vendors; in response to the selection of an indicator on a sign-in graphical user interface, identifying a current user of the processor-based system, said sign-in graphical user interface having different indicators for each known user of said particular processor-based system; and customizing content for a selection graphical user interface, said customization based on the current user of the processor-based system, the current user'"'"'s recorded user input, and the products or services of the particular retail vendor, said selection graphical user interface being a different interface than said activity graphical user interface and said sign-in graphical user interface. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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