INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND DISPLAY SYSTEM

• US 20090273568A1
• Filed: 05/01/2008
• Published: 11/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/01/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: John Groves Milner
• Original Assignee: John Groves Milner
• Inventors: Milner, John Groves
• Application Number:
  US12/113,208
• Publication Number:
  US 20090273568A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/147 using display panels
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2380/06 Remotely controlled electronic signs other than labels

Abstract

An information management and display system includes a content management server and at least one retailer, a client advertisements server and at least one content display device communicating with the content management server. The client advertisements server is adapted to store advertising information, the content management server is adapted to receive the advertising information from the client advertisements server and the at least one content display device is adapted to receive the advertising information from the content management server and display the advertising information.

Claims

1. A content display device, comprising:

a display device housing;

a display screen carried by said display device housing;

a printed circuit board connected to said display screen;

at least one database server storing information connected to said printed circuit board; and

wherein said printed circuit board is adapted to receive said information from said at least one database server and display said information on said display screen.

2. The content display device of claim 1 wherein said display screen comprises a touch-activated display screen.

3. The content display device of claim 1 wherein said display screen comprises a split display screen comprising a pair of screen sections.

4. The content display device of claim 1 further comprising an Ethernet cable connected to said printed circuit board and said at least one database server.

5. The content display device of claim 1 further comprising an antenna connected to said printed circuit board and adapted to receive said information wirelessly from said at least one database server.

6. An information management and display system, comprising:

a content management server;

at least one retailer communicating with said content management server;

a client advertisements server communicating with said content management server;

at least one content display device communicating with said content management server; and

wherein said client advertisements server is adapted to store advertising information, said content management server is adapted to receive said advertising information from said client advertisements server and said at least one content display device is adapted to receive said advertising information from said content management server and display said advertising information.

7. The system of claim 6 further comprising a marketing management entity communicating with said content management server and adapted to modify said advertising information.

8. The system of claim 6 wherein said at least one retailer is adapted to modify said advertising information.

9. The system of claim 6 further comprising a retailer database server communicating with said at least one retailer.

10. The system of claim 9 wherein said at least one retailer and said retailer database server communicate with said at least one content display device.

11. The system of claim 6 wherein said advertising information comprises at least one of photos, images and descriptive text.

12. The system of claim 6 wherein said at least one content display device comprises a display device housing, a display screen carried by said display device housing, a printed circuit board connected to said display screen and a power cord connected to said printed circuit board.

13. The system of claim 12 wherein said display screen comprises a touch-activated display screen.

14. An information management and display system, comprising:

a content management server;

a client advertisements server communicating with said content management server;

at least one content display device communicating with said content management server;

a manufacturers products/marketing information server communicating with said content management server; and

wherein said client advertisements server is adapted to store advertising information, said manufacturers products/marketing information server is adapted to store product information, said content management server is adapted to receive said advertising information from said client advertisements server and said product information from said manufacturers products/marketing information server and said at least one content display device is adapted to receive said advertising information and said product information from said content management server and display said advertising information and said product information.

15. The system of claim 14 further comprising a corporate advertisements database communicating with said content management server and wherein said content management server is adapted to receive corporate advertisement information from said corporate advertisements database and said at least one content display device is adapted to receive said corporate advertisement information from said content management server and display said corporate advertisement information.

16. The system of claim 15 further comprising a corporate management entity communicating with said content management server and adapted to modify said product information, said advertising information and said corporate advertisement information.

17. The system of claim 14 further comprising a marketing management entity communicating with said content management server and adapted to modify said product information, said advertising information and said corporate advertisement information.

18. The system of claim 14 wherein said advertising information comprises at least one of photos, images and descriptive text.

19. The system of claim 14 wherein said at least one content display device comprises a display device housing, a display screen carried by said display device housing, a printed circuit board connected to said display screen and a power cord connected to said printed circuit board.

20. The system of claim 19 wherein said display screen comprises a touch-activated display screen.