Method of constructing a digital content play list for transmission and presentation on a public access electronic terminal

• US 20020156704A1
• Filed: 03/26/2002
• Published: 10/24/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cantaloupe, Inc.
• Original Assignee: USA Technologies, Inc.
• Inventors: Kolls, H. Brock
• Granted Patent: US 7,805,338 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/27
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method of constructing a play list of a plurality of digital content for transmission and presentation on a public access electronic terminal for use with various data processing resources. The method establishes a virtual terminal on a play list server; selects the plurality of digital content at the virtual terminal; appends a digital content header to each of the plurality of digital content included in the play list; stores the play list in association with said virtual terminal; transmits the play list from the virtual terminal to the public access electronic commerce terminal; selectively receives the play list from the public access electronic commerce terminal; generates an activity report in the public access electronic commerce terminal based on the play list transmission; and selectively updates the data processing resources to reflect the activity report.

Claims

1. A method of constructing a play list of a plurality of digital content for data communication to and presentation on a public access electronic terminal for use with data processing resources, said method comprising the steps of:

a) establishing a virtual terminal on a play list server;

b) selecting said plurality of digital content at said virtual terminal;

c) appending a digital content header to each of said plurality of digital content included in said play list;

d) storing said play list in association with said virtual terminal;

e) transmitting said play list from said virtual terminal to said public access electronic commerce terminal, said public access electronic commerce terminal having a unique association with said virtual terminal;

f) receiving selectively a play list from said public access electronic commerce terminal;

g) generating an activity report based on the transmitting step (e) in said public access electronic commerce terminal; and

h) updating selectively said data processing resources to reflect the activity report.

2. The method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the selecting step (b) is based on a digital content serving criteria.

3. The method in accordance with claim 2, further including the step of obtaining said digital content serving criteria from a digital media content server.

4. The method in accordance with claim 1, wherein said digital content header includes a routing criterion.

5. The method in accordance with claim 4, further including the step of determining which of a plurality of said public access electronic commerce terminals should receive said plurality of digital content based on said routing criterion.

6. The method in accordance with claim 1, wherein said digital content header includes a plurality of dynamic presentation data.

7. The method in accordance with claim 6, wherein said plurality of dynamic presentation data includes at least one of:

i) data to determine which days of the week the digital content should be presented for viewing at said public access electronic commerce terminal,

ii) data to determine how long an impression of the digital content should be left in a particular location on said public access electronic commerce terminal display,

iii) data to determine where said digital content should be located on said public access electronic commerce terminal display,

iv) data to determine times of the day said digital content should be viewable on said public access electronic commerce terminal display,

v) data to determine how a user is to interact with said digital content being displayed on said public access electronic commerce terminal, and

vi) data to determine how many times said digital content should be made viewable on said public access electronic commerce terminal display.

8. The method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the transmitting step (e) further comprises the step of waiting for said public access electronic terminal to initiate a network connection with said play list server.