CUSTOMIZING PRINTED PRODUCTS BASED ON TRAVEL PATHS

• US 20130191211A1
• Filed: 01/24/2012
• Published: 07/25/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/24/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
• Original Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 83 LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Nichols, Timothy L., Murray, Thomas Joseph, Arujunan, Thiagarajah, Parulski, Kenneth Alan, O'Keefe, Brian Joseph
• Application Number:
  US13/356,946
• Publication Number:
  US 20130191211A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.49
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal

Abstract

A method for providing customized printed products at a printing location, including storing a collection of prestored information associated with a plurality of different travel paths, receiving a digital message from a wireless device positioned at a first location, transmitting an offer to provide a printed product at the printing location; determining a travel path between the first capture location and the printing location, selecting particular prestored information responsive to the determined travel path; and providing a customized printed product at the printing location which includes the selected particular prestored information.

Claims

1. A method for providing customized printed products at a printing location, comprising:

a) storing a collection of prestored information associated with a plurality of different points along travel paths,

b) receiving, over a wireless communications network, a digital message from a wireless device positioned at a first location;

c) transmitting, to the wireless device, an offer to provide a printed product at the printing location;

d) determining a travel path between the first capture location and the printing location;

e) selecting particular prestored information responsive to the determined travel path; and

f) providing a customized printed product at the printing location, wherein the customized printed product includes the selected particular prestored information.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the digital message includes a digital image and wherein the customized printed product is a photo product that includes at least a portion of the digital image.

3. The method according to claim 1 wherein the customized printed product includes a plurality of digital images captured by the wireless device.

4. The method according to claim 3 wherein the printed product includes an advertisement.

5. The method according to claim 4 wherein the advertisement relates to a business along the travel path.

6. The method according to claim 1 further including receiving geolocation information from the wireless device and using the geolocation information to determine the travel path.

7. The method according to claim 1 wherein the digital message includes a digital image and wherein the method includes analyzing pixel data of the digital image to determine the travel path.

8. The method according to claim 1 wherein the wireless device is a wireless capture device and wherein the method further includes positioning a plurality of different objects at different locations, providing guidance to the user of the wireless capture device to capture and transmit a digital image of one of the different objects, and analyzing the pixel data of the received digital image to determine the travel path.

9. The method according to claim 1 wherein the wireless device is a wireless capture device and wherein the method further includes positioning a plurality of different objects at different locations, wherein the different objects provide different instructions to the user of the wireless capture device, receiving information from the wireless capture device, and using the received information to determine the travel path.

10. The method according to claim 9 wherein the received information is provided by instructing the user to provide different text messages at different locations.

11. The method according to claim 9 wherein the received information is provided by instructing the user to send a message to different addresses, at different locations.

12. The method according to claim 1 further including receiving weather related information, and wherein the particular prestored information is selected responsive to the weather related information.

13. The method according to claim 1 further including receiving time of day related information, and wherein the particular prestored information is selected responsive to the time of day information.

14. The method according to claim 1 wherein the wireless device is a wireless capture device and wherein the method further includes receiving and evaluating a digital image captured by the wireless capture device to determine the approximate age of a person depicted in the digital image, and wherein the particular prestored information is selected responsive to the approximate age of the person depicted in the digital image.

15. The method according to claim 9 wherein an advertisement includes at least a portion of the digital image.

16. The method according to claim 1 wherein the wireless device is a wireless capture device and wherein the method further includes

g) analyzing the pixel data of a digital image received from the wireless capture device and determining based on such analysis a recommended printing location for providing the printed product, wherein the recommended location is selected from a plurality of different possible locations;

h) transmitting information concerning the recommended location over the wireless communications network to the wireless capture device; and

i) providing the printed photo product to the user at the recommended printing location.