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.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . 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.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 receiving an event indicating an initiation of the transaction on the video display device, the event including the video display device identifier.   
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 2 , wherein the event comprises information regarding a video being consumed by the video display device. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the transaction is initiated via a voice control on the video display device. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the video display device identifier comprises a television identifier. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 determining that the user does not have a wallet before determining that the user has a profile, wherein the wallet is used to store payment information for the user; and   sending a query to retrieve the profile using the video display device identifier.   
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 receiving purchase information for the transaction from the video display device; and   creating a wallet for the user that includes payment information that was used in the transaction for use in another transaction.   
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 7 , wherein the wallet is identified by the video display device identifier. 
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 7  further comprising:
 receiving an initiation of another transaction on the video display device, the another transaction including the video display device identifier; 
 determining that the wallet was created for the user; 
 retrieving the payment information from the wallet; and 
 providing the payment information to the video display device to allow the video display device to populate another form for the another transaction using at least a portion of the payment information. 
 
     
     
         10 . The method of  claim 9 , wherein the video display device uses the profile information to populate the another form for the another transaction. 
     
     
         11 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the profile information includes contact information for the user to allow the user to enter payment information on an input device other than the video display device. 
     
     
         12 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the transaction is initiated via a gesture control on the video display device. 
     
     
         13 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 creating a wallet for the user that includes information from the transaction.   
     
     
         14 . The method of  claim 13 , wherein the wallet includes a history of prior transactions for the user. 
     
     
         15 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing instructions, that when executed, control a computer system to be configured for:
 receiving a video display device identifier in a request for a transaction that is initiated via a video display device by a user;   using the video display device identifier to determine a profile associated with the video display device;   receiving authentication information from the user;   verifying the user is an owner of the profile based on the authentication information;   retrieving profile information from the profile upon authentication; and   providing 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.   
     
     
         16 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of  claim 15 , wherein the transaction is initiated via a voice control on the video display device. 
     
     
         17 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of  claim 15 , further configured for:
 determining that the user does not have a wallet before determining that the user has a profile, wherein the wallet is used to store payment information for the user; and   sending a query to retrieve the profile using the video display device identifier.   
     
     
         18 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of  claim 15 , further configured for:
 receiving purchase information for the transaction from the video display device; and   creating a wallet for the user that includes payment information that was used in the transaction for use in another transaction.   
     
     
         19 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of  claim 15 , further configured for:
 receiving an initiation of another transaction on the video display device, the another transaction including the video display device identifier;   determining that the wallet was created for the user;   retrieving the payment information from the wallet; and   providing the payment information to the video display device to allow the video display device to populate another form for the another transaction using at least a portion of the payment information.   
     
     
         20 . An apparatus comprising:
 one or more computer processors; and   a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions, that when executed, control the one or more computer processors to be configured for:   receiving a video display device identifier in a request for a transaction that is initiated via a video display device by a user;   using the video display device identifier to determine a profile associated with the video display device;   receiving authentication information from the user;   verifying the user is an owner of the profile based on the authentication information;   retrieving profile information from the profile upon authentication; and   providing 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.