EP 1334420 A2 20030813 - SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING SALES INFORMATION VIA INTERACTIVE DIGITAL DATA STREAMS
Title (en)
SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING SALES INFORMATION VIA INTERACTIVE DIGITAL DATA STREAMS
Title (de)
SYSTEM ZUM BEREITSTELLEN VON VERKAUFSINFORMATIONEN ÜBER INTERAKTIVE DIGITALE DATENSTRÖME
Title (fr)
SYSTEME DE FOURNITURE D'INFORMATIONS DE VENTE VIA DES TRAINS DE DONNEES NUMERIQUES INTERACTIVES
Publication
Application
Priority
- US 0132020 W 20011013
- US 68786600 A 20001013
Abstract (en)
[origin: WO0231627A2] A virtual sales agent program (18) is provided to users via the functionality of interactive television (10) programming technology, enhanced television systems which present retrieved Internet information (28) and content, and expert based programming systems. The virtual sales agent segments (18) are part of the same transmission stream (4) which broadcasts an associated commercial message. The content signals, comprising both the commercial and virtual sales agent segments, are converted into digital format for transmission. An encoder combines the various digital content signals, which may include video (22), audio, graphics, text (20), and data signals, including Uniform Resource Locators for direction to Internet content (28), into a reduced number of data streams (4) for transmission. Using a multiple-choice controller (348), a user responds to information presentations or interrogatory messages. The various information segments in the various content signals preferably relate in real-time and content so that an interactive conversation can occur as the content signal is played back and the user responds.
IPC 1-7
IPC 8 full level
G06F 1/00 (2006.01); G06Q 30/00 (2012.01); H04N 7/24 (2011.01)
CPC (source: EP)
G06Q 30/02 (2013.01); H04N 21/235 (2013.01); H04N 21/2368 (2013.01); H04N 21/435 (2013.01); H04N 21/44016 (2013.01); H04N 21/47205 (2013.01); H04N 21/4722 (2013.01); H04N 21/4755 (2013.01); H04N 21/47815 (2013.01); H04N 21/812 (2013.01); H04N 21/8456 (2013.01)
Designated contracting state (EPC)
AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE TR
DOCDB simple family (publication)
WO 0231627 A2 20020418; WO 0231627 A3 20020620; AU 1170702 A 20020422; CA 2420668 A1 20020418; EP 1334420 A2 20030813; EP 1334420 A4 20070117
DOCDB simple family (application)
US 0132020 W 20011013; AU 1170702 A 20011013; CA 2420668 A 20011013; EP 01979782 A 20011013