Content management system for integrated display substrates

• US 8,260,880 B1
• Filed: 04/27/2012
• Issued: 09/04/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Xola, Inc.
• Original Assignee: WireSpring Technologies Incorporated
• Inventors: Zaretzky, Jeremy, Gerba, William F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Maung, Zarni
• Application Number:
  US13/457,593
• Time in Patent Office: 130 Days
• Field of Search: 709217-219, 709223-229
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/00 Digital computers in general details G06F1/00 – G06F13/00; Data processing equipment in general
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/262 Content or additional data distribution scheduling, e.g. sending additional data at off-peak times, updating software modules, calculating the carousel transmission frequency, delaying a video stream transmission, generating play-lists scheduling strategies for dispatcher in multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/4881; arrangements for scheduling broadcast services or broadcast-related services H04H60/06; flow control in packet networks H04L47/10; establishing a time schedule or organising the servicing of application requests H04L67/62
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/266 Channel or content management, e.g. generation and management of keys and entitlement messages in a conditional access system, merging a VOD unicast channel into a multicast channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/414 Specialised client platforms, e.g. receiver in car or embedded in a mobile appliance

Abstract

A system is provided that includes a content management system, a controller, and an electronic display. The electronic display is integrated into an object, such as the packaging of a consumer product. The content management system sends instructions to the controller for determining content to display. The instructions depend in part on status information obtained by the controller from an external source. At least one instruction pertains to extended periods when the controller is unable to communicate with the content management system.

Claims

1. A system for automatically managing content for displays, comprising:

a content management system in communication with a controller that is in communication with an electronic display that is integrated into an object having a primary function that does not traditionally rely upon an integrated electronic display, wherein;

the content management system automatically sends instructions to the controller for determining content to display;

the instructions depend in part on status information automatically obtained by the controller from a source external to the object, display and controller; and

at least one instruction pertains to an action to be taken based on the status information during at least part of a period that the controller is unable to communicate with the content management system, such period having a duration of at least twenty-four hours.

2. A method for automatically managing content for displays comprising the steps of:

establishing communication between a content management system and a controller that is in communication with an electronic display that is integrated into an object having a primary function that does not traditionally rely upon an integrated electronic display;

sending instructions from the content management system to the controller for determining content to display, wherein the instructions depend in part on status information automatically obtained by the controller from a source external to the object, display and controller, and at least one instruction pertains to an action to be taken based on the status information during at least part of a period that the controller is unable to communicate with the content management system, such period having a duration of at least twenty-four hours;

obtaining, by the controller, the status information; and

determining, by the controller, the content to display based on the instructions and the status information.