Method and apparatus for providing customized date information

• US 20020002558A1
• Filed: 01/16/2001
• Published: 01/03/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Philip R. Krause
• Original Assignee: Philip R. Krause
• Inventors: Krause, Thomas W.
• Application Number:
  US09/759,215
• Publication Number:
  US 20020002558A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/104.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

The invention concerns uses of an “age-event database” that contains entries describing events that occurred in the lives of individuals at a certain age. Inputting a target individual'"'"'s age (or a birthdate, from which the age can be calculated), yields output consisting of information from the age-event database. Thus, the database can be used to create greetings, greeting cards, calendars, and other date-related products that inform the user or recipient of accomplishments of famous individuals, or individuals known to the user or recipient, when they were the user or recipient'"'"'s age.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for providing a user with age-event information comprising:

a) receiving an input signal comprising age information; and

b) providing an output signal comprising age-event information corresponding to said age information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the input signal comprises a date, and the output signal comprises a celebrity ageliner.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the input signal comprises age information relating to a target individual, and the output signal comprises age-event information customized for said target individual.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the output signal further comprises a date;

and the age event information customized for said target individual comprises information about an event in the life of an age-event individual when the age-event individual was the same age as the target individual on said date.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the input signal comprises a birthdate.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the input signal comprises an age in years.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the output signal is obtained by comparing the input signal to an age-event database, and selecting at least one item from the age-event database that corresponds to an age that derives from said inputted age information.

8. The method of claim 4, further comprising the step of generating a customized greeting for the target individual.

9. The method of claim 8, where the customized greeting is an electronic greeting card.

10. The method of claim 8, where the customized greeting is a greeting card produced at a an automated greeting card kiosk.

11. The method of claim 3, further comprising the step of generating a customized calendar for the target individual.

12. The method of claim 3, further comprising the step of generating a life-chart for the target individual, wherein said life-chart comprises age-events related to at least about one year of the life of said target individual.

13. The method of claim 3, further comprising the steps of generating a life-clock display for the target individual, wherein said life-clock display comprises a symbolic representation of the amount of life an individual has lived and the amount of life an individual has remaining;

and providing age-event information on said life-clock display.

14. A computer system for providing age-event information, comprising:

computer processor means for processing data;

storage means for storing data on a storage medium;

means for receiving age information input; and

means, responsive to said receiving means, for outputting age-event information to a user.

15. The computer system of claim 14, further comprising means for generating a celebrity ageliner.

16. The computer system of claim 14, further comprising means for generating a customized greeting from the user to a target.

17. The computer system of claim 14, further comprising means for generating a customized calendar.

18. A computer memory storage device encoded with a computer program for using a computer system to provide age-event information comprising:

means for inputting age information; and

means for providing age-event information as output.

19. The computer memory storage device of claim 18, further comprising means for generating a customized greeting.

20. The computer memory storage device of claim 18, further comprising means for generating a customized calendar.