Patent ID: 9679298
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q

Claim:
1. A system comprising: a display device configured for displaying a web browser; a memory configured for storing data; a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and the display device, the processor configured for displaying, in the web browser, a portable web widget, the web widget comprising: a content retrieval component communicatively coupled to an application server over a computer communications network, the content retrieval component executed by the processor to retrieve one or more multimedia display files and metadata into an embedded electronic commerce store in the web widget, the multimedia display files and the metadata retrieved from a storage resource communicatively coupled to the application server and stored in the memory after the web widget enters an active operational mode, the web widget entering the active operational mode after a user clicks on the web widget in an inactive operational mode in the web browser; a content preview component executed by the processor for streamed execution of a portion of one or more multimedia content files from a multimedia content distribution system executing on the application server, the streamed execution performed in the web browser based on a selection request made on the web widget in the active operational mode for streamed execution of at least one of the one or more multimedia content files; and a transaction processing component executed by the processor to execute and complete a commercial transaction in the embedded electronic commerce store pertaining to the one or more multimedia content files; wherein the one or more multimedia display files and metadata are associated with each of the one or more multimedia content files; wherein the multimedia display files, the multimedia content files and the metadata are created under control of a content owner; and wherein the multimedia content files are associated with the web widget by at least one of the content owner and a content distributor using the multimedia content distribution system.