Patent ID: 7606765

Claim:
A method of ordering and paying for pay-per-view events comprising: a) providing a pay-television system having a multiplicity of offerings including pay-per-view events; b) providing a subscriber account in the pay-television system; c) sending a bill to a subscriber at a billing location which charges the subscriber for usage of the pay-television system, including usage of pay-per-view events; d) identifying a home base for the subscriber; e) providing the subscriber with a credit card associated with the pay-television system; f) locating the subscriber at a location remote from the home base; g) ordering an offering from the pay-television system to be sent to the subscriber at the remote location by the pay-television system by (1) communicating with the pay-television system from the remote location, (2) identifying the credit card which will be charged for the offering, (3) identifying the event being ordered for delivery at the remote location, (4) identifying the remote location as being a receiving location to which the pay-television system is to send the event being ordered, (5) providing information regarding the remote location, and (6) authorizing payment for the event to be charged to the credit card; h) charging the credit card with a charge according to the event ordered on the credit card; i) billing the subscriber at the home base according to charges on the credit card; j) providing a second pay-television system; k) providing a central station; and l) associating the central station with both the pay-television system and the second pay-television system; and m) wherein the step of communicating with the pay-television system includes a step of communicating between the pay-television system and the second pay-television system via the central station and the central station relaying the request of the subscriber.