Patent ID: 7852372

Claim:
An interactive system for simulating a queue for obtaining an item, an autograph from a celebrity viewable from a remote user device comprising: a first camera positioned at a first point of a line in a celebrity queue providing a first video signal of the line from the first point; a second camera positioned at a second point of the line and providing a second video signal of the line from the second point; a third camera positioned at a third point of the line and providing a third video signal of the line from the third point; and, an interface configured to interactively communicate with a remote user device to create a timed interactive event including broadcasting the signals to simulate movement in a queue for obtaining an autograph in real time, and to provide the remote user device with a display of a list of a plurality of available celebrity queues and a list of available items to be autographed and to receive an input signal from the remote user device identifying a celebrity queue from the plurality of available celebrity queues and an item to be autographed by the celebrity and to place the remote user device in position in the identified queue, the interface further configured to selectively broadcast the first, second and third signals of the identified celebrity queue to the remote user device in real time and switch between the first, second and third signals to simulate movement in the queue on the remote user device, the interface including a countdown clock that provides a signal to the remote user device to display a time remaining until the timed interactive event after receipt of the input signal from the remote user device identify celebrity queue.