Cellular telephone advertising system
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1. A cellular telephone system comprising:
- a central station;
a plurality of cells, each cell corresponding to a geographic area and having a cell transceiver in communication with said central station; and
a plurality of mobile telephones, each telephone being associated with a subscriber;
wherein said central station includes;
(a) first connectors for exchanging information with said telephones through said cell transceivers;
(b) second connectors for connecting said central station to a standard hardwired telephone system;
(c) a commercial message center for providing a commercial message to a specific mobile telephone when said mobile telephone establishes communication with said central station, said commercial message being unrelated to the operation of said mobile telephone; and
(d) a selector receiving commands from one of said subscribers indicative of whether said subscriber desires to receive commercial messages, said selector providing said commercial message to said subscriber if said one subscriber has indicated that he accepts commercial messages;
wherein said selector includes an emergency sensor for sensing an emergency command from said one subscriber, said selector connecting said one subscriber to a channel of communication in the presence of said emergency command.
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Abstract
A cellular telephone system, is provided with an ad server and a memory for holding various commercial messages. The messages are either generic, or are tailored for specific demographically selected subscribers, or geographic cells. When communication is established either between a subscriber or a nonsubscriber, at least one of them gets either a generic or a specific commercial message.
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19 Claims
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1. A cellular telephone system comprising:
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a central station; a plurality of cells, each cell corresponding to a geographic area and having a cell transceiver in communication with said central station; and a plurality of mobile telephones, each telephone being associated with a subscriber; wherein said central station includes; (a) first connectors for exchanging information with said telephones through said cell transceivers; (b) second connectors for connecting said central station to a standard hardwired telephone system; (c) a commercial message center for providing a commercial message to a specific mobile telephone when said mobile telephone establishes communication with said central station, said commercial message being unrelated to the operation of said mobile telephone; and (d) a selector receiving commands from one of said subscribers indicative of whether said subscriber desires to receive commercial messages, said selector providing said commercial message to said subscriber if said one subscriber has indicated that he accepts commercial messages; wherein said selector includes an emergency sensor for sensing an emergency command from said one subscriber, said selector connecting said one subscriber to a channel of communication in the presence of said emergency command. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A commercial message center for a cellular telephone system, said telephone system being formed of a central station and a plurality of cells, each cell corresponding having a transceiver in communication with said central station and a plurality of subscriber telephones, each telephone being located in one of said cells, said center comprising:
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a receiver for receiving a communication request from one of said subscriber telephones; a first identifier for identifying the subscriber of said one subscriber telephone from said communication request and the cell from which said one subscriber is calling; a memory bank holding a plurality of messages; a correlator for correlating one of said messages from said memory bank with data associated with said one subscriber based on said cell; and a transmitter for transmitting said message to said one subscriber. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method of providing advertising information to subscribers of a cellular telephone system comprising the step of:
- storing a plurality of commercial messages into a memory bank, said commercial messages being unrelated to the operation of said cellular telephone system;
sensing a request for communication from a subscriber telephone located in a cell of said system and said cell; determining the identity of said subscriber from said request; retrieving one commercial message from said information and based on said identity and the location of said subscriber from said cell; and transmitting said one commercial message to said subscriber. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15)
- storing a plurality of commercial messages into a memory bank, said commercial messages being unrelated to the operation of said cellular telephone system;
- 16. The method of 13 further comprising accumulating the number of commercial messages received by a subscriber.
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18. A cellular telephone system comprising:
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a central station; a plurality of cells, each cell corresponding to a geographic area and having a cell transceiver in communication with said central station; and a plurality of mobile telephones, each telephone being associated with a subscriber; wherein said central station includes; (a) first connectors for exchanging information with said telephones through said cell transceivers; (b) second connectors for connecting said central station to a standard hardwired telephone system; (c) a detector for detecting a physical location of a particular subscriber; and (d) a commercial message center for providing a commercial message to a specific mobile telephone based on said location when said mobile telephone establishes communication with said central station, said commercial message being unrelated to the operation of said mobile telephone. - View Dependent Claims (19)
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