Procedures, system and computer program product for the presentation of multimedia contents in elevator installations

• US 7,266,505 B2
• Filed: 02/27/2003
• Issued: 09/04/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Inventio AG (Schindler Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: Inventio AG (Schindler Holding AG)
• Inventors: Meyer, Thomas, Friedli, Paul
• Primary Examiner(s): Weiss; John G
• Assistant Examiner(s): CASLER, TRACI
• Application Number:
  US10/375,617
• Publication Number:
  US 20030167284A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,650 Days
• Field of Search: 705/1, 705/15, 187391-392, 187/396, 187/388, 704/231, 704/236, 704/243
• US Class Current: 705/14.66
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 3/008 Displaying information not related to the elevator, e.g. weather, publicity, internet or TV
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0269 based on user profile or attribute

Abstract

A method, a system and a computer program product presents multimedia contents in elevator installations. At least one individual user profile with multimedia contents is stored for each elevator user. When a user is identified, the multimedia contents in the associated user profile are presented. Dining a group transport, the individual user profiles associated with the users in the group are linked in a collective travelling profile for presentation of selected multimedia contents.

Claims

1. A method for the presentation of multimedia contents in elevator installations comprising the steps of:

a. pre-setting and storing for each of a plurality of users of an elevator installation in the elevator installation at least one individual user profile with multimedia contents, each said individual profile being associated with only one of said users;

b. identifying each of the users at the elevator installation;

c. presenting through the elevator installation multimedia contents carried within the pre-set individual user profile associated with an identified user of the plurality of users; and

d. during a group transport of at least two users of the plurality of users by the elevator installation, linking together the pre-set individual user profiles associated with the at least two users in a collective travelling profile.

2. The method according to claim 1 including categorizing the multimedia contents of the individual user profiles.

3. The method according to claim 2 including categorizing the multimedia contents in accordance with at least one of a demographic travelling preference, a psychographics travelling preference, and a situational travelling preference.

4. The method according to claim 3 wherein said step d is performed by linking the categorized multimedia contents, in accordance with the desired travelling preferences of the users, and presenting preferred ones of all of the multimedia contents to the at least two users.

5. The method according to claim 3 wherein said step d is performed by linking the categorized multimedia contents, in accordance with the desired travelling preferences of the users, and not presenting unwanted ones of all of the multimedia contents to the at least two users.

6. The method according to claim 1 including forming anonymous user profiles from the individual user profiles and offering the anonymous user profiles to interested commercial entities.

7. The method according to claim 1 including linking at least one advertisement to the multimedia contents.

8. A system for the presentation of multimedia contents in elevator installations comprising:

at least one recognition device for recognizing elevator user identification codes;

at least one examination device responsive to said at least one recognition device for identifying the recognized identification codes;

at least one identification database storing at least one user profile with multimedia contents for each elevator user associated with the identification codes, forming a pre-set user profile individual to each of said elevator users;

a computing means being responsive to said pre-set user profiles of at least two of said elevator users during a group transport by the elevator installation of said at least two elevator users for linking said pre-set user profiles associated with the group transport to a collective travelling profile; and

at least one output device connected to said computing means for presenting to the elevator users in the group transport the multimedia contents based on the travelling profile.

9. The system according to claim 8 wherein the multimedia contents of the user profiles are categorized by desired travelling preferences of the users and said at least one output device presents preferred ones of all of the multimedia contents to the users in the group transport.

10. The system according to claim 8 wherein the multimedia contents of the user profiles are categorized by desired travelling preferences of the users and said at least one output device does not present unwanted ones of all of the multimedia contents to the users in the group transport.

11. The system according to claim 8 wherein said computing means forms anonymous user profiles from the individual user profiles for offering to interested commercial entities.

12. The system according to claim 8 wherein said computing means links at least one advertisement to the multimedia contents of the travelling profile.

13. A computer program product for the presentation of multimedia contents in elevator installations comprising:

a comparison means in an elevator installation for comparing at least one recognized identification code of an elevator user with a plurality of identification addresses;

an allocation means in the elevator installation responsive to a positive comparison of said comparison means for allocating the at least one recognized identification code to an identical to one of the plurality of identification addresses;

an assignment means in the elevator installation responsive to an allocation by said allocation means for assigning a user profile with multimedia contents to the identical one of the plurality of identification addresses, wherein said user profile is established and pre-set for each individual user within said elevator installation; and

a linking means in the elevator installation responsive to said assignment means for linking at least two of said user profiles to a collective travelling profile when elevator users associated with the at least two of said user profiles are included in a group transport by the elevator installation.

14. The computer program product according to claim 13 including a categorizing means for categorizing the multimedia contents within each of the at least two user profiles in accordance with at least one travelling preference of the associated elevator user.

15. The computer program product according to claim 13 wherein said linking means links the at least two user profiles to the travelling profile in accordance with a logical element.