PROVISION OF WIRELESS OFFERS TO CE DEVICE USING NON-TELEPHONY WIRELESS TRANSMISSION

• US 20080275776A1
• Filed: 09/10/2007
• Published: 11/06/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Electronics Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Electronics Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Smith, Tim William
• Application Number:
  US11/852,498
• Publication Number:
  US 20080275776A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/025 adapted to a specific application
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0236 Incentive or reward received by requiring registration or ID from user
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0267 Wireless devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/18 wireless networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4878 Advertisement messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data

Abstract

A method for distributing geographically and socioeconomically targeted media, advertising, and electronic coupons via non-telephony wireless methods to portable consumer electronic and communication devices, based upon the cross-registration meta data of the manufacturer product warranty information to a local digital signage network.

Claims

1. A method for providing a sales offer to a user of a consumer electronics (CE) device, comprising:

detecting that the CE device is nearby a provision unit;

accessing a database using an identification of the CE device;

obtaining from the database user information correlated to the identification of the CE device;

using the user information to identify at least one sales offer to be made; and

wirelessly transmitting the sales offer to the CE device without using a telephony system.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the provision unit is a digitally-enabled sign, and the sign undertakes the act of detecting.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the user information includes demographic information and/or geographic information and does not personally identify the user.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the sales offer includes an advertisement.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the sales offer is transmitted from the sign to the CE device using Wi-Fi.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein the sales offer is transmitted from the sign to the CE device using Bluetooth.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein the sales offer is transmitted from the sign to the CE device using ultra wide band (UWB) communication.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein a user of the CE device need only power on the device and take no further action to receive the sales offer from the provision unit once the CE device is detected near the provision unit.

9. A digitally-enabled sign, comprising:

a housing;

a processor in the housing; and

a non-telephony wireless transceiver in the housing communicating with the processor, wherein

the processor receives a signal indicating that a CE device is nearby, the signal including a CE device ID, the processor accessing a sales offer server, a sales offer being identified in response to the device ID for provision of the sales offer to the CE device through the non-telephony wireless transceiver.

10. The sign of claim 9, wherein the device ID is correlated to user information including demographic information and/or geographic information not personally identifying the user.

11. The sign of claim 9, wherein the sales offer includes an advertisement.

12. The sign of claim 9, wherein the sales offer is transmitted from the sign to the CE device using Wi-Fi.

13. The sign of claim 9, wherein the sales offer is transmitted from the sign to the CE device using Bluetooth.

14. The sign of claim 9, wherein the sales offer is transmitted from the sign to the CE device using ultra wide band (UWB) communication.

15. The sign of claim 9, wherein a user of the CE device need only power on the device and take no further action to receive the sales offer from the sign once the CE device is detected near the sign.

16. A system, comprising:

means for detecting the presence of a CE device having a device ID;

means for sending the device ID to a sales offer means correlating the device ID to at least one sales offer; and

non-telephony wireless transmission means, associated with the means for detecting, for transmitting the sales offer to a CE device.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the sales offer is transmitted from the wireless transmission means to the CE device using Wi-Fi.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the sales offer is transmitted from the wireless transmission means to the CE device using Bluetooth.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein the sales offer is transmitted from the wireless transmission means to the CE device using ultra wide band (UWB) communication.

20. The system of claim 16, wherein the device ID is correlated to user information including demographic information and/or geographic information not personally identifying the user.