Advertisement offering method and system for wireless display board

• US 20030013436A1
• Filed: 08/08/2002
• Published: 01/16/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 02/12/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jae-Sul Son
• Original Assignee: Jae-Sul Son
• Inventors: Son, Jae-Sul
• Application Number:
  US10/203,165
• Publication Number:
  US 20030013436A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/414.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

The present invention relates to an advertisement offering method and a system for a wireless display board.

The advertisement offering method for a wireless board includes the steps of: requesting advertisement services from an advertisement information providing section through a network, wirelessly transmitting advertisement information to an output unit which receives the advertisement service from said advertisement information providing section on the basis of said advertisement service request, transmitting advertisement information to said output unit by using an operation input section in the near distance of said output unit, and transmitting at least one of said wireless advertisement information and said near distance advertisement information which are expressed on said output unit to said advertisement information providing section.

Claims

1. A method for offering advertising information in a wireless display board system, comprising the steps of:

requesting an advertisement service to a wireless advertising information provider through a network by an user;

transmitting the wireless advertising information to an output unit from the advertising information provider in response to the service requesting;

loading nearby advertising information on the output unit by means of an operating device at a place near the output unit; and

transmitting one of the wireless advertising information and the nearby advertising information which are displayed on the output unit into the advertising information provider.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

transmitting a counted data relevant to a displaying time of the advertising information into the advertising information provider through a mobile communication site; and

accounting a charge for using the advertising information on the basis of the displaying time.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the step of transmitting the counted data of the displaying time comprises the steps of:

storing the wireless advertising information and the nearby advertising information in a storage unit; and

transmitting the stored advertising information to the advertising information provider through a network.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the output unit includes at least one of a video part displaying the advertising information in a visual state, and a audio part expressing the advertising information in a audible state.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of transmitting the wireless advertising information comprises:

transmitting the wireless advertising information to a mobile communication site through a wired network; and

transmitting the wireless advertising information to the output unit and displaying the wireless advertising information on the output unit.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the step of displaying the wireless advertising information comprises the steps of:

receiving the wireless advertising information supplied from a server into a receiver of the output unit; and

storing the wireless advertising information in a storage unit of the output unit and displaying the wireless advertising information on a display unit of the output unit in accordance with a control operation of an output controller of the output unit.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the receiver is a hand phone.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the server is adaptable to at least one of SMS, WAP, m_HTM, and IMT-2000.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of transmitting the nearby advertising information comprises the step:

receiving an input data supplied by the operating device into a receiver of the output unit; and

storing the input data in a storage unit of the output unit and displaying the input data on a display unit of the output unit in accordance with a control operation of an output controller of the output unit.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the operating device is a remote controller by which characters or audio signals are supplied to the receiver.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of requesting the advertisement service comprises the steps of:

writing out an application for requesting the advertising service by an user; and

storing the application in a database; and

checking out a receipt of the application from the advertising information provider.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

analyzing information relevant to advertising contents and running time by a program after constructing a database in which the advertising information from the output unit is stacked; and

performing OLAP and data mining process including an accounting for a service charge on the basis of the analyzed information.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising the steps of:

inputting information into the database, the input information being relevant to the advertising service and conditions of a place where the output unit is fixed;

selecting information corresponding to an user'"'"'s demand in the database; and

transmitting the selected information to the output unit through a wireless communication network and displaying the selected information on the output unit.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of providing supplemental information to the output unit from a supplemental information provider, the supplemental information provider being connected to the advertising information provider.

16. The wireless display board system of claim 15, further comprising a mobile communication site, being connected to the advertising information provider and the output unit each through a wired communication network and a wireless communication network, for transmitting the information to the output unit from the advertising information provider.

17. The wireless display board system of claim 16, wherein the advertising information provider comprises:

a web server being accessible with a terminal;

a database server for storing information about users, installing places, and wireless display boards;

a management server for operating detail information about advertisement makers, advertisers, advertising messages, and service charges;

a CRM system for analyzing client information to manage clients and purchase inclination; and

a client management server constructed of a UMS to send mails and characters to the clients;

wherein each of the servers is adaptable to SMS, WAP, m_HTM, or IMT-2000.

18. The wireless display board system of claim 16, wherein the output unit comprises:

a receiver for receiving the information provided from the advertising information provider;

a storage unit for storing the information demodulated;

a display unit for expressing the information in one of a visual state and an audible state; and

an output controller for making the information be expressed on the display unit.

19. The wireless display board system of claim 16, further comprising an operating device, e.g., a remote controller, for applying information such as characters and audio signals into the output unit.

20. The wireless display board system of claim 15, further comprising an operating device, e.g., a remote controller, for applying information such as characters and audio signals into the output unit.

15. A wireless display board system comprising:

an output unit for displaying an information including advertising messages; and

an advertising information provider for transmitting the information to the output unit in response to a request for an advertisement service from an user and for receiving the information displayed on the output unit.