An integrated live interactive content insertion system for digital TV commerce

We present an advanced architecture for selectively inserting interactive content into a live TV broadcast and tracking the usage of the inserted content by client viewers. Specifically, we propose a multi-level interactive content preview mechanism, agent-based information exchange mechanism and E-commerce enablement technology powered by an Interactive Content Creation Engine (ICCE). Also, we introduce two types of mapping lists for scheduling and for an intelligent decision maker based on the transaction monitoring and multi-level content preview. We propose that the improved live interactive content insertion method and system will be especially useful for building interactive TV e-commerce solutions.