US 2019/0057378 A1 · Accelerating Profile Creation

Abstract

Leveraging the wealth of information available on-line to accelerate and facilitate commercial transactions initiated by viewers of television programming, both during conventional programming and while using interactive features such as shopping channels, application channels, executing downloaded applications, and the like, for reducing the amount and frequency of user input required by accelerating and simplifying the process of accessing stored profiles and payment methods in these transactions, and by reducing user efforts in maintaining their on-line presence without compromising user security, is described. The motivation for such simplification derives from concerns apparent in emerging t-commerce transactions, where the means by which viewers may engage in two-way transactions directly in the context of the television programming are different and frequently more constrained than in traditional e-commerce and m-commerce modes.

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A method comprising:

receiving, by a computing device, a video display device identifier in a request for a transaction that is initiated via a video display device by a user;
using, by the computing device, the video display device identifier to determine a profile associated with the video display device;
receiving, by the computing device, authentication information from the user;
verifying, by the computing device, the user is an owner of the profile based on the authentication information;
retrieving, by the computing device, profile information from the profile upon authentication;
and
providing, by the computing device, the profile information to the video display device to allow the video display device to populate a form for the transaction using at least a portion of the profile information.

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