Business method for selling advertisements and traffic related services on electronic billboards
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1. An advertisement selling system configured to reduce human interaction in the sale and placement of advertisements for outdoor electronic billboards, and encourage greater viewership of advertisements, comprising an advertisement interface to receive advertisements in machine readable format;
- said advertisement interface also configured to receive the display parameters for said advertisements;
an outdoor, hi-resolution, electronic billboard configured to display said advertisements;
a means of connectivity to a wide area network; and
a pricing algorithm configured to dynamically price the cost of displaying said received advertisements according to the various display parameters.
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Abstract
A business method designed to utilize electronic billboards to sell advertisements and traffic information.
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1. An advertisement selling system configured to reduce human interaction in the sale and placement of advertisements for outdoor electronic billboards, and encourage greater viewership of advertisements, comprising an advertisement interface to receive advertisements in machine readable format;
- said advertisement interface also configured to receive the display parameters for said advertisements;
an outdoor, hi-resolution, electronic billboard configured to display said advertisements;
a means of connectivity to a wide area network; and
a pricing algorithm configured to dynamically price the cost of displaying said received advertisements according to the various display parameters. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
- said advertisement interface also configured to receive the display parameters for said advertisements;
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16. A system for providing driving directions to commuters, where the driving directions change dynamically to reflect the real-world driving conditions, comprising one of more sensors placed along the public thoroughfare configured to continuously determine traffic volume;
- connectivity to a first server configured to collate the sensor data into a dynamic traffic velocity/commute time database;
a second server configured as a mapping server;
a computer system configured to send driving direction requests to the first server and receive a driving directions from said first server;
said computer system also configured to obtain commute times for each segment of the commute; and
connectivity to a wide area decentralized network. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
- connectivity to a first server configured to collate the sensor data into a dynamic traffic velocity/commute time database;
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