On-line product catalogue and ordering system, and the presentation of audio tracks and user avatars along a journey path
AssigneeOutersonic Limited
InventorGregory Arthur Mihalcheon
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Abstract
A method of presenting an on-line product catalog and ordering system to a user, said method comprising providing a graphical user interface representing a virtual space through which users may navigate, said virtual space including representations representing products, through which a user may obtain product information and order a product on-line, and representations representing other users of the system, through which the user may identify such other users and communicate with a selected other user regarding the products on offer.
Claims15
A method of presenting an on-line catalogue of audio tracks to a user in a data networked computer apparatus, the method comprising:
- providing a graphical user interface on the computer apparatus;
- operating the graphical user interface with the computer apparatus to represent a virtual space, wherein the virtual space is a visual representation of a space through which users may navigate along a given journey path;
- the virtual space including product representations, each product representation visually representing an audio track in a sequentially linked set of audio tracks, wherein the product representation is selectable by a user to obtain product information about the audio track and/or purchase the audio track on-line;
- the product representations being arranged by the computer apparatus on the graphical user interface as a sequence thereof representing the sequentially linked set of audio tracks and interlinked by the given journey path;
- operating the graphical user interface with the computer apparatus to present user representations positioned along the given journey path, wherein the user representations represent other current users of the system who are listening to the sequentially linked set of audio tracks, through which the user may identify such other current users and select another current user for communication regarding one or more of the audio tracks, and wherein the user representations comprise avatars and include an avatar representing the user;
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- operating the graphical user interface with the computer apparatus to move the user's avatar within the virtual space in accordance with a temporal listening location in a current audio track being played by the user.
A non-transient computer readable medium programmed with computer readable code embodying a computer program for use with an on-line catalogue of audio tracks to be implemented in a data-networked computer apparatus, the program being adapted to:
- generate a graphical user interface representing a virtual space, wherein the virtual space is a visual representation of a space through which users may navigate along a given journey path;
- the virtual space including product representations, each product representation visually representing an audio track in a sequentially linked set of audio tracks, wherein the product representation is selectable by a user to obtain product information and/or purchase the audio track on-line;
- the product representations being arranged along the given journey path within the virtual space as a sequence thereof representing the sequentially linked set of audio tracks and interlinked by the given journey path;
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- user representations representing other current users of the system and positioned along the given journey path, wherein the user representations represent other current users of the system who are listening to the sequentially linked set of audio tracks, through which the user may identify such other current users and select one or more of the other users for communication regarding the one or more of the audio tracks, and wherein the user representations comprise avatars and include an avatar representing the user, and further comprising moving the user's avatar within the virtual space in accordance with a temporal listening location in a current audio track being played by the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.