Method and system for home shopping using video-on-demand services

摘要

A network can provide consumers with remotely accessible video content selections, each presenting one or more sales offers. Consumers can send or transmit a prompt, request, message, or demand that triggers the transmission or downloading of video content for viewing, such as on television systems in consumer homes. As consumers place orders for a featured product in response to viewing the downloaded video content, the stock, supply, availability, or inventory of that product can change. While the video plays or shows, the television systems can receive dynamic, live, or up-to-date information, for example, current inventory data that reflects consumer orders. The television system can present that information, or a derivative thereof, to the consumer, for example, notifying the consumer of a limited-supply condition, showing an inventory count in a field of the video, or offering a substitute product when a stock level becomes depleted.