Method and apparatus for presenting ecommerce offerings using seamless panoramic streaming of video data
OwnerMartin Schrager, Jeffry Robinsoninventors
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Abstract
A system for providing first person, streamed video data to a prospective purchaser to create a realistic shopping experience on-line, consists of or includes receiving data from a user designating a shopping area, presenting to the user video data streams of the selected area, receiving navigation commands from the user to modify the streams, creating for the user the appearance of moving through the selected area, whereby the user may select a store, and likewise receive video data streams for shopping within the store, and for selecting products.
Claims20
In a computer server apparatus operatively coupled over a computer network to one or more users, a method for conducting electronic commerce transactions comprising:
- (a) receiving data from a user designating a geographical location selection;
- (b) presenting to the user a modifiable video data stream of the selected geographic location;
- (c) receiving navigation commands from the user to modify the video data stream;
- (d) presenting the modified video data stream relative to a prior video data stream, thereby creating for the user the appearance of moving through the selected geographic location;
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- (e) receiving data from a user designating a product selection.
A method for shopping comprising:
- (a) establishing a remote connection with at least one server computer from at least one user computer;
- (b) serving to said at least one user computer a video depicting an area containing at least one store;
- (c) detecting a selection from said at least one user computer of a store depicted on said video;
- (d) serving to said at least one user computer at least one series of images depicting at least one item offered in said selected store.
A system for shopping, comprising:
- at least one server computer;
- means for remotely connecting said at least one server computer to at least one user computer;
- means operative with said at least one server computer for sending said at least one user computer a video depicting an area containing at least one store;
- means operative with said at least one server computer responsive to said at least one user computer for selecting a store depicted on said video;
- means operative with said at least one server computer for sending said at least one user computer at least one series of images depicting at least one item offered in said selected store.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.