System of mobile and stationary digital units using a logical network architecture involving groups and hierarchies

• US 20080034388A1
• Filed: 08/03/2007
• Published: 02/07/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/03/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sina Majidi
• Original Assignee: Sina Majidi
• Inventors: Majidi, Sina
• Application Number:
  US11/882,641
• Publication Number:
  US 20080034388A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/37
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/085 using a television receiver, e.g. viewdata system

Abstract

This invention relates to a system consisting of a logical network of units capable of digital communication managed by servers and databases. Such units include LCDs, LEDs, digital billboard, and digital cameras, as well as the technology infrastructure of business entities. The system utilizes user requirements, system configurations, and real-time data to manage transmission of data, including multi-media data such as advertisements. Additionally, the system uses unit groups and hierarchies to select and synchronize communications among units. The relational aspect of units within the logical network also provides a framework for data layering of the communication streams. Existing systems consider units, such as mobile telephones, as stand-alone and provide no relational consideration in controlling data communications. This system targets this deficiency within the marketplace and improves the opportunities that digital units provide. Furthermore, the system serves business-to-business need for more cost-effective management of remote and mobile units.

Claims

1. The system will transmit and receive data to and from units, such as digital advertising display LCDs, based on various system configurations, user requirements, and real-time data.

2. The system of claim 1 is based on a network configuration of units, with specific unit attributes, to define data transmissions and trigger transmission changes.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the units will include, but not necessarily restricted to, LCDs, LEDs, servers, digital cameras, digital sensors, and any digital medium.

4. The system configuration of claim 1 will include units assigned to multiple groups as part of its management of the units.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the groups will include other entity types, other than communication units, as part of its management of units.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the systems configuration will have a hierarchal architecture of groups (as shown in FIG. 1) as part of its configuration to manage the network of units.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the other entity types include, but not necessarily restricted to, areas, vehicles, buildings, and political boundaries.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the user requirements will be based on, but not necessarily restricted to, information entered into the system such as unit, time, location, events (sports, product promotions, weather, etc.), and date, to control what is broadcast or received.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the user requirements will include, but not necessarily restricted to, inputted parameters, including group and hierarchy criteria, used by the system'"'"'s business logic to manage the network of units controlled by the system.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the user requirements, system configuration, and real-time logic controls, will be entered through, but not necessarily restricted to, a user interface.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the real-time data will include dynamic relational configurations (e.g., location changes), such as mobile display units approaching stationary units, to trigger changes in the transmission of data, and are used for the management of the network of units.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the real-time data will include groups and hierarchies in its management of units and synchronization of data among groups and units.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the real-time data management, will include synchronization of data channels within units, such as matching content among the different split-screens of a digital display and the inclusion of a extra data stream to transmit data directly to consumer units (e.g. retail coupons and location information).

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the real-time data management, will include data layering (e.g., a data stream, such as an advertisement, will consist of multiple layers of data where one or more layers will include particular data, such as retail store location, specific to a group or unit).

15. The system of claim 2 will use attributes of units, such as type, location, grouping, and hierarchy assignments, to manage the network of units and control data transmissions.

16. The system of claim 1 consists of servers and databases that manage the transmission of data.

17. The system of claim 1 will use both wireless and wired networks, such as LAN, WAN, TCP/IP, ATM/FR, WiFi, and Cellular.

18. The system of claim 1 can utilize any communications protocol including both proprietary and non-proprietary.