Patent ID: 8117076

Claim:
A method for connecting a registered e-shopping facility in a registered e-shopping environment, said e-shopping facility including a detailed software program tailored to at least one registered tenant and selected from the group comprising a programmed e-service provider, a programmed e-merchandise provider and a combination thereof via a communication network selected from the group comprising a private network, a dedicated network, a public network, the internet and combinations thereof, with at least one e-shopping appliance including a memory and a central processing unit selected from the group comprising a television interphone monitor, a shopping terminal, a television set, an interactive television set, shopping adaptor box, set-top box, cable box, antenna box, satellite adaptor box and combinations thereof, through internal communication lines 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 and through at least one interface unit selected from the group comprising a television interphone monitor interface, a shopping terminal interface, an interactive television interface and combinations thereof, the method comprising the steps of: a) registering said tenant and said e-shopping facility with at least one registration facility selected from a group comprising a local service facility, a registration center and a combination thereof and installing into said memory a detailed tenant program complementing said detailed software program, selected from a 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, b) operating said e-shopping appliance for selecting, processing and executing an order on the basis of said detailed tenant programs; c) generating a shopping signal of said order 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, for feeding said shopping signal through said internal communication lines; d) interfacing said shopping signal via said interface unit for propagating an interfaced shopping signal through said communication network; and e) communicating said interfaced shopping signal with said e-shopping facility via said communication network.