Patent NZ-551805-A (NZ)
Title: Method and apparatus for simplified E-commerce shopping
Inventor: ELBERBAUM DAVID
IPC: H04N5/445
Filed: 2005-06-03
Abstract: An apparatus for connecting a registered e-shopping facility in a registered e-shopping circuit via a communication network, with at least one registered e-shopping appliance, through internal communication lines and through at least one interface unit is disclosed. The e-shopping facility includes detailed software program tailored to at least one registered tenant. The e-shopping facility is selected from the group comprising a programmed e-service provider, a programmed e-merchandise provider and a combination thereof. The communication network is selected from the group comprising a private network, a dedicated network, a public network, the internet and combinations thereof. The registered e-shopping appliance is selected from the group comprising a television interphone monitor, a shopping terminal, a television set, an interactive television set and combinations thereof. The internal communication lines are selected from the group comprising an analog communication line, a digital communication line, a network line, a cable television line, a television antenna line and a combination thereof. The interface unit is selected from the group comprising a television interphone monitor interface, a shopping terminal interface, an interactive television interface and combinations thereof. An e-concierge program for communicating with local concierge and e-shopping tenant programs, complementary programmed for operating with the detailed software including the registered e-shopping circuit includes a registering facility. The registering facility is selected from a group comprising a local service facility, a registration center and a combination thereof. The e-shopping appliance includes a central processing unit and a memory for registering with the registering facility and installing a detailed tenant program complementing the detailed software programs, for selecting, processing and executing an order and generating shopping signals of the order. The detailed tenant program is selected from the group comprising an e-shopping operating tenant program, a tenant accounting program, a tenant payment program, an e-service tenant program, an e-merchandise tenant program, a television merchandising tenant program, a television service tenant program, an interactive television merchandising tenant program, an interactive television service tenant program, a local service tenant program, a local merchandise tenant program and combinations thereof. The internal communication lines are fed with the shopping signals for communicating between the e-shopping appliance and the interface unit; and the interface unit interfaces the shopping signals for communicating interfaced shopping signals between the e-shopping appliance and the e-shopping facility through the communication network. The shopping signals are selected from a group comprising television signal, interactive television signal, video signal, audio signal, control signal, command signal, alarm signal, data signal and combinations thereof.