Method and system for disseminating commercial information by mobile telephone
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The invention enables a mobile telephone user to receive commercial information relating to the geographical position thereof on his/her telephone in the form of messages. The mobile telephone user voluntary registers with a service. Registration is received and stored in a data base. The mobile telephone user is also provided with a portable module which can be automatically detected in the closest geographical area of a terminal. Once the registration of the mobile telephone user has been verified in the data base, information is sent in the form of messages to the mobile telephone of the user and said information is displayed thereon.
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14 Claims
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10. A method of disseminating commercial information by mobile telephone, allowing a user of a mobile telephone to receive on the telephone, in a form of messages, commercial or similar information tied to the user'"'"'s geographical position, comprising:
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the user employing a portable module with a remote detection function;
the user subscribing voluntarily to a service allowing reception of commercial information;
receiving this request for registration, associating it with numbers of the portable module and of the mobile telephone, and storing this data in a database;
detecting in an automated manner the portable module present on the user of the mobile telephone within a close geographical radius near to a facility allowing the detection of the portable module;
verifying that the number of the portable module detected is present in the database and extracting the associated mobile telephone number;
dispatching the information, in the form of messages, to the mobile telephone concerned; and
displaying this information on a screen of the mobile telephone. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14)
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