Bill payments from a video screen

A method for issuing bill pay requests using a bill pay request generating device, the method comprising:

• causing a display to present video content based on a content stream, the content stream converted from video signals received over a broadcast medium;
• while displaying the video content,
• identifying a vendor based on video content data associated with the video content;
• determining that the vendor is a registered biller of a user based on the video content data;
• determining that the user has a bill due with the vendor;
• and
• overlaying an indication of the bill onto the video content wherein the overlay includes an interactive element enabling the user to provide a user input to cause a payment to be made to the vendor;
• and
• sending the bill pay request to a financial institution computing system over a network through a downstream network circuit to cause a payment to be made to the vendor based on receiving the user input, wherein the network is different than the broadcast medium.

A non-transitory computer readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied therein that, when executed by one or more processors of a bill pay request generating device, causes the bill pay request generating device to perform operations to issue bill pay requests, the operations comprising:

• causing a display to present video content based on a content stream, the content stream converted from video signals received over a broadcast medium;
• while displaying the video content,
• identifying a vendor based on video content data associated with the video content;
• determining that the vendor is a registered biller of a user based on the video content data;
• determining that the user has a bill due with the vendor;
• and
• overlaying an indication of the bill onto the video content, wherein the overlay includes an interactive element enabling the user to provide a user input to cause a payment to be made to the vendor;
• and
• sending a bill pay request to a financial institution computing system over a network through a downstream network circuit to cause a payment to be made to the vendor based on receiving the user input, wherein the network is different than the broadcast medium.