Method and system for using temporary information on personal devices

• US 8,182,340 B2
• Filed: 01/18/2008
• Issued: 05/22/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Digital Monks LLC
• Original Assignee: Digital Monks LLC
• Inventors: Korp, Peter A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Elisca, Pierre Eddy
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kamal, Shahid
• Application Number:
  US12/009,358
• Publication Number:
  US 20080182661A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,586 Days
• Field of Search: 463/29, 463/31, 463/36, 463/40, 705/51, 705/59, 705/64
• US Class Current: 463/31
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/95 Retrieval from the web
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/382 insuring higher security of transaction

Abstract

A method and system for using temporary information on personal devices such as a personal game playing device. The methods and system described herein may help further utilize large base of personal game playing devices by allowing them to receive temporary information associated with sub-events and/or temporal sub-events for a desired event including live and non-live events via wireless and wired connections at the event venue.

Claims

1. A method for receiving temporary information on a personal game playing device, comprising:

receiving dynamically a temporary application on a personal game playing device with one or more processors from a network device with one or more processors via a communications connection to a communications network, wherein the temporary application is used only for receiving temporary information during an event at a desired event location;

receiving periodically temporary information with a disabling mechanism on the temporary application on the personal game playing device from the network device and the communications connection at the desired event location in association with sub-events occurring during the event,

wherein the received temporary information includes a pre-determined set of conditions associated with the event, wherein the disabling mechanism allows access to the received temporary information on the personal game playing device to be disabled when one or more of conditions from the pre-determined set of conditions are met and wherein the disabling mechanism includes an encryption/decryption mechanism, location awareness, temporal awareness, event awareness and sub-event awareness mechanisms;

displaying the received temporary information on the temporary application for the sub-events on a display portion of the personal game playing device at the desired event location for a pre-determined amount of time;

continuously overwriting with the temporary application received temporary information as it is viewed on the display portion of the personal game playing device thereby making the received temporary information unavailable;

receiving periodically new temporary information on the temporary application on the personal game playing device from the network device and the communications connection in association with new sub-events occurring during the event;

overwriting on the temporary application on the personal game playing device previously received temporary information with the new temporary information, thereby making the previously received temporary information unavailable; and

disabling automatically on the temporary application access to the temporary information with the disabling mechanism from the temporary information when one or more of conditions from the pre-determined set of conditions are met, wherein disabling access to the temporary information includes encrypting the temporary information on the personal game playing device or deleting the temporary information from the personal game playing device with the temporary application.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the communication connection includes a wireless or a wired communications connection.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the temporary application includes a temporary software application that communicates with a proprietary communications network at the desired event location.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the temporary application includes a temporary software application that communicates via a public communications network at the desired event location.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of receiving a temporary application includes securely receiving the temporary application via a secure communications connection.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the pre-determined set of conditions include a pre-determined amount of elapsed time from the event or a selected temporal sub-event, or moving the personal game playing device a pre-determined distance away from the desired event location.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the temporary information includes a Digital Rights Management (DRM) component.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

sending a selection input from temporary application on the personal game playing device via the communications connection to request additional information associated with the temporary information; and

receiving the additional information on the temporary application via the communications connection on the personal game playing device.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

sending another selection input via the temporary application on the personal game playing device and the communications connection to electronically purchase a good or service offered for sale in the received temporary information during the event or temporal sub-event.

10. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

presenting the temporary information to a vendor during the event or temporal sub-event to purchase a good or service from the vendor.

11. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

periodically receiving new temporary information with the disabling mechanism on the personal game playing device via the temporary application from the network device via the communication connection via the communications network at an event in association with temporal sub-events occurring at the event;

displaying a list of a plurality of selections on the personal game playing device associated with the received new temporary information; and

sending a new selection input from the temporary application on the personal game playing device to select one of the plurality of selections from the list in association with the received new temporary information, wherein the new selection input allows an action to be processed on a server network device with one or more processors on the communications network.

12. The method of claim 11 further comprising:

presenting the new temporary information to a vendor during the event or temporal sub-event to purchase a good or service from the vendor.

13. The method of claim 11 wherein the list of plurality of selections includes a list of candidates to vote for, a list of contestants to select a winner from, a prediction for a sporting event, a list of opinions for a survey in a restaurant, list of goods or services available for sale, or a list of electronic coupons for the event or sub-events.

14. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

broadcasting dynamically the temporary application to a plurality of other personal game playing devices each with one more processors via the communications network from the network device wherein the temporary application is used for receiving temporary information during the event at the desired event location;

sending periodically from the network device temporary information with the disabling mechanism to the plurality of personal game playing devices via the communications network at the desired event location in association with sub-events occurring during the event, wherein the temporary information includes a pre-determined set of conditions associated with the event; and

receiving a plurality of selection inputs on the network device from a plurality of personal game playing devices via the communications network to request additional information associated with the sent temporary information.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein the plurality of selection inputs include a plurality of selection inputs to record a survey, enter a contest, accept a sale of goods or services, accept a coupon, or redeem a coupon.

16. The method of claim 14 wherein the communications network is a wireless communication network.

17. The method of claim 14 wherein the communications network includes a client/server network or a peer-to-peer network.

18. The method of claim 14 wherein the network device includes a server network device or another personal game playing device each with one or more processors.

19. A non-transitory computer readable medium have stored therein a plurality of instructions for causing one or more processors to execute the steps of:

receiving dynamically a temporary application on a personal game playing device with one or more processors from a network device with one or more processors via a communications connection to a communications network, wherein the temporary application is used only for receiving temporary information during an event at a desired event location;

receiving periodically temporary information with a disabling mechanism on the temporary application on the personal game playing device from the network device and the communications connection at the desired event location in association with sub-events occurring during the event,

wherein the received temporary information includes a pre-determined set of conditions associated with the event, wherein the disabling mechanism allows access to the received temporary information on the personal game playing device to be disabled when one or more of conditions from the pre-determined set of conditions are met and wherein the disabling mechanism includes an encryption/decryption mechanism, location awareness, temporal awareness, event awareness and sub-event awareness mechanisms;

displaying the received temporary information on the temporary application for the sub-events on a display portion of the personal game playing device at the desired event location for a pre-determined amount of time;

continuously overwriting with the temporary application received temporary information as it is viewed on the display portion of the personal game playing device thereby making the received temporary information unavailable;

receiving periodically new temporary information on the temporary application on the personal game playing device from the network device and the communications connection in association with new sub-events occurring during the event;

overwriting on the temporary application on the personal game playing device previously received temporary information with the new temporary information, thereby making the previously received temporary information unavailable; and

disabling automatically on the temporary application access to the temporary information with the disabling mechanism from the temporary information when one or more of conditions from the pre-determined set of conditions are met, wherein disabling access to the temporary information includes encrypting the temporary information on the personal game playing device or deleting the temporary information from the personal game playing device with the temporary application.

20. A system for sending and receiving temporary information to and from a personal game playing device, comprising in combination:

for receiving dynamically a temporary application on a personal game playing device with one or more processors from a network device with one or more processors via a communications connection to a communications network, wherein the temporary application is used only for receiving temporary information during an event at a desired event location;

for receiving periodically temporary information with a disabling mechanism on the temporary application on the personal game playing device from the network device and the communications connection at the desired event location in association with sub-events occurring during the event,

wherein the received temporary information includes a pre-determined set of conditions associated with the event, wherein the disabling mechanism allows access to the received temporary information on the personal game playing device to be disabled when one or more of conditions from the pre-determined set of conditions are met and wherein the disabling mechanism includes an encryption/decryption mechanism, location awareness, temporal awareness, event awareness and sub-event awareness mechanisms;

for displaying the received temporary information on the temporary application for the sub-events on a display portion of the personal game playing device at the desired event location for a pre-determined amount of time;

for continuously overwriting with the temporary application received temporary information as it is viewed on the display portion of the personal game playing device thereby making the received temporary information unavailable;

for receiving periodically new temporary information on the temporary application on the personal game playing device from the network device and the communications connection in association with new sub-events occurring during the event;

for overwriting on the temporary application on the personal game playing device previously received temporary information with the new temporary information, thereby making the previously received temporary information unavailable; and

for disabling automatically on the temporary application access to the temporary information with the disabling mechanism from the temporary information when one or more of conditions from the pre-determined set of conditions are met, wherein disabling access to the temporary information includes encrypting the temporary information on the personal game playing device or deleting the temporary information from the personal game playing device with the temporary application.