Patent ID: 8315916

Claim:
A method for online consumer video order delivery, comprising: (a) receiving an order for a consumer video and a request to deliver the consumer video to an online video portal computing device by an online video merchant computing device from a consumer computing device; (b) providing a pick-up ticket by the online video merchant computing device to the consumer computing device, wherein the pick-up ticket comprises a merchant identity of an online video merchant and a product identity of the consumer video, wherein the providing of the pick-up ticket to the consumer computing device enables the online video portal computing device to: (b1) receive the pick-up ticket from the consumer computing device by the online video portal computing device over a subscription network; (b2) in response to receiving the pick-up ticket, retrieve the merchant identity and the product identity from the pick-up ticket by the online video portal computing device; (b3) connect to the online video merchant computing device by the online video portal computing device using the merchant identity retrieved from the pick-up ticket; and (b4) provide the product identity retrieved from the pick-up ticket to the online video merchant computing device by the online video portal computing device; (c) receiving the product identity by the online video merchant computing device from the online video portal computing device; (d) in response to receiving the product identity, retrieving the consumer video by the online video merchant computing device using the product identity; and (e) sending the consumer video by the online video merchant computing device to the online video portal computing device.