SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TARGETED ADVERTISING AND PROMOTIONS USING TABLETOP DISPLAY DEVICES

• US 20090063274A1
• Filed: 07/31/2008
• Published: 03/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/01/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Display Points Technologies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Display Points Technologies, Inc.
• Inventors: Willard, Brandon Carson, Bell, Stuart Andrew, Dublin, Wilbur Leslie III, Fitzgerald, Gregory Scott
• Application Number:
  US12/183,862
• Publication Number:
  US 20090063274A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.100
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0207 Discounts or incentives, e.g. coupons or rebates
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0245 Surveys
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0257 User requested
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0267 Wireless devices

Abstract

A system comprises multiple display devices that deliver digital advertising and promotional content directly to the tabletop of restaurant or bar patrons, along with a support server that may be responsible for recharging batteries and/or replicating data files and managing communications. The support server may be linked by a conventional computer network or telephone data link to a content replication server that coordinates and directs placement of ads and other content on the display devices. The promotional, advertising, or other data may be made available to the distribution network from a network of one or more web application servers that may implement a variety of methods or processes that not only provide for direct customer management and control of that data, but also contain a database of information to help target, design, manage, measure and/or track the performance of advertisements and promotions based on a variety of criteria.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a plurality of table-top display devices for displaying advertising content to patrons of a business establishment, wherein each of the plurality of table-top display devices includes a display screen configured to display the advertising content, a data storage configured to store content data that defines the advertising or promotional content, and a control unit configured to access the content data in the data storage and control the display of the advertising content on the display screen; and

a server subsystem configured to allow user selection of the content data and to facilitate distribution of the content data to the plurality of table-top display devices.