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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 25, 1997
Toshihiro Sugaya, Ibaraki-ken, JP;
Kimiyoshi Ban, Kawasaki, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a mail-order shopping system which allows a user to do electronic mail-order shopping by a simple operation without using a personal computer and to correctly acquire information of goods. An adapter including both a memory for registering user's information specifying a user and a modem for communicating with a mail-order firm, is connected to the DVD reproduction apparatus. The catalog information, recognition information of the mail-order firm, and communication programs representing a procedure for communication from the user to the mail-order firm, which are stored in a DVD for mail-order shopping, are reproduced by the DVD reproduction apparatus. The catalog information is displayed on a TV display, and both information of desired goods selected by the user and user's information registered in the memory of the adapter, are transmitted through a modem on the basis of the reproduced communication programs.