Abstract: Customized highlight shows for sporting events, entertainment events, and/or the like, having, a narrative component are generated and presented. The events can be sporting events, entertainment events, and/or the like. For example, in the context of sporting events, a determination is made as to what types of sports, teams, leagues, players plays and/or the like are of interest to the user. A customized highlight show is then generated and presented, containing those specific portions of the sporting events that are likely to be of interest, arranged in a manner that is likely to be entertaining and interesting to the user and that presents' cohesive narrative.

Abstract: Customized highlight shows for sporting events, entertainment events, and/or the like, may be generated and presented. Source content with a representation of one or more events, such as sports events, may be obtained. A user may designate an attribute and/or a viewing length. A subset of the source content with highlights from within the source content may be selected such that the subset has the attribute and/or viewing length designated by the user. A customized highlight show including the subset may be generated and outputted to the user, for example, on a display screen. The attribute may include a team playing in the sporting events, a player playing in the sporting events, and/or a type of play occurring in the sporting events. The subset may optionally be generated based on teams and/or players in one or more fantasy sports teams.

Abstract: In the method of the present invention a purchaser of goods uses a client computer to order goods from a site hosted by a host computer. The host computer is linked to a payment processing computer. In the method the host computer sends to the payment processing computer an identifier identifying a classification of the ordered goods. The client computer also sends an identifier to the payment processor computer. The payment processor compares the identifiers to determine whether the purchaser is authorised to purchase the ordered goods having regard to the classification of the goods.