WO2004003693A3 - Method and apparatus to invoke a shopping ticker - Google Patents

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WO2004003693A3
WO2004003693A3 PCT/US2003/020351 US0320351W WO2004003693A3 WO 2004003693 A3 WO2004003693 A3 WO 2004003693A3 US 0320351 W US0320351 W US 0320351W WO 2004003693 A3 WO2004003693 A3 WO 2004003693A3
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ticker
shopping
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James A Billmaier
Richard V Halbert
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Digeo Inc
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Abstract

A shopping ticker (520) can be invoked when the viewer presses a BUY button (430) on a remote control (410) while a television program (404) is being shown. The television program (404), which can be a commercial, may not necessarily have an interactive commerce opportunity originally associated with it. However, instead of ignoring a signal sent from the remote control (410) when the BUY button (430) is pressed, the signal is processed to invoke the shopping ticker (520). The shopping ticker (520) can include advertisements (528), links to e-commerce opportunities (505) (including merchant web sites), product information (514), or other information that may be potentially useful to help initiate a transaction with the viewer, including context-sensitive shopping information (509) that is related to the subject matter of the television program (404). A commerce opportunity is thus created in a situation where there originally would not have been such an opportunity and where the viewer's remote control (410) action would otherwise have been ignored. Ticker transactions can be performed securely.
PCT/US2003/020351 2002-06-27 2003-06-27 Method and apparatus to invoke a shopping ticker WO2004003693A2 (en)

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US10/186,341 US7266835B2 (en) 2002-06-27 2002-06-27 Method and apparatus for secure transactions in an interactive television ticker

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