Method and system for using temporary information on personal devices

• US 20080182661A1
• Filed: 01/18/2008
• Published: 07/31/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Peter A. Korp
• Original Assignee: Peter A. Korp
• Inventors: Korp, Peter A.
• Granted Patent: US 8,182,340 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/31
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/95 Retrieval from the web
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/382 insuring higher security of transaction

Abstract

A method and system for using temporary information on personal devices such as a personal game playing device. The methods and system described herein may help further utilize large base of personal game playing devices by allowing them to receive temporary information associated with sub-events and/or temporal sub-events for a desired event including live and non-live events via wireless and wired connections at the event venue.

Claims

1. A method for receiving temporary information on a personal game playing device, comprising:

receiving dynamically an application on a personal game playing device via a communications connection, wherein the application is used for receiving temporary information during an event at a desired event location;

receiving periodically temporary information on the personal game playing device via the application and the communications connection at the desired event location in association with sub-events occurring during the event, wherein the temporary information includes a pre-determined set of conditions associated with the event; and

displaying the received temporary information for the sub-events on a display portion of the personal game playing device at the desired event location for a pre-determined amount of time, wherein access to received temporary information is disabled on the personal game playing device based on a pre-determined set of conditions associated with the event.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising a computer readable medium have stored therein instructions for causing one or more processors to execute the steps of the method.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the communication connection includes a wireless or a wired communications connection.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the application includes a temporary software application that communicates with a proprietary communications network at the desired event location.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the application includes a temporary software application that communicates via a public communications network at the desired event location.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of receiving an application includes securely receiving the application via a secure communications connection.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of receiving periodically temporary information includes receiving temporary information with a disabling mechanism that allows access to the temporary information to be disabled when one or more of conditions from the pre-determined set of conditions are met.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the disabling mechanism includes an encryption/decryption mechanism, location awareness, temporal awareness, event awareness and sub-event awareness mechanisms.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the pre-determined set of conditions include a pre-determined amount of elapsed time from the event or a selected temporal sub-event, or moving the personal game playing device a pre-determined distance away from the desired event location.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the temporary information includes a Digital Rights Management (DRM) component.

11. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

sending a selection input from the personal game playing device via a communications connection to request additional information associated with the temporary information; and

receiving the additional information via the communications connection on the personal game playing device.

12. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

sending a selection input via the application and the communications connection to electronically purchase a good or service offered for sale in the received temporary information during the event or temporal sub-event.

13. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

presenting the temporary information to a vendor during the event or temporal sub-event to purchase a good or service from the vendor.

14. A method for interacting with temporary information received on a personal game playing device, comprising:

periodically receiving temporary information on a personal game playing device via an application via a communication connection via a communications network at an event in association with temporal sub-events occurring at the event;

displaying a list of a plurality of selections on the personal game playing device associated with the received temporary information; and

sending a selection input to select one of the plurality of selections from the list in association with the received temporary information, wherein the selection input allows an action to be processed on a server on the communications network.

15. The method of claim 14 further comprising a computer readable medium have stored therein instructions for causing one or more processors to execute the steps of the method.

16. The method of claim 14 wherein the plurality of list of a plurality of selections includes the list of plural selection a list of candidates to vote for, a list of contestants to select a winner from, a prediction for a sporting event, a list of opinions for a survey in a restaurant, list of goods or services available for sale, or a list of electronic coupons for the event or sub-events.

17. A method for processing temporary information for a personal game playing device, comprising:

broadcasting dynamically an application to a plurality of personal game playing devices via a communications network from another device, wherein the application is used for receiving temporary information during an event at a desired event location;

sending periodically temporary information to the plurality of personal game playing devices via the communications network at the desired event location in association with sub-events occurring during the event, wherein the temporary information includes a predetermined set of conditions associated with the event; and

receiving a plurality of selection inputs from a plurality of personal game playing devices via a communications network to request additional information associated with the sent temporary information.

18. The method of claim 17 further comprising a computer readable medium have stored therein instructions for causing one or more processors to execute the steps of the method.

19. The method of claim 17 wherein the communications network is a wireless communication network.

20. The method of claim 17 wherein the communications network includes a client/server network or a peer-to-peer network.

21. The method of claim 17 wherein the another device is a server network device or a personal game playing device.

22. A system for sending and receiving temporary information to and from a personal game playing device, comprising in combination:

means for sending dynamically an application to a personal game playing device via a communications network from a server network device, wherein the application is used for receiving temporary information during an event at a desired event location, for sending periodically temporary information to the personal game playing device via the application and the communications network at the desired event location in association with sub-events occurring during the event, wherein the temporary information includes a pre-determined set of conditions associated with the event, and means for receiving a plurality of selection inputs from a plurality of personal game playing devices via a communications network to request additional information associated with the sent temporary information; and

means for receiving periodically temporary information on the personal game playing device via an application and a communications connection at the desired event location in association with sub-events occurring during the event, wherein the temporary information includes a pre-determined set of conditions associated with the event, for displaying the received temporary information for the sub-events on a display portion of the personal game playing device at the desired event location for a pre-determined amount of time, wherein access to received temporary information is disabled on the personal game playing device based on a pre-determined set of conditions associated with the event, for sending a selection input from the personal game playing device via a communications connection to request additional information associated with the temporary information and for receiving the additional information via the communications connection on the personal game playing device.