Venue-oriented commerce via mobile communication device

• US 8,831,577 B2
• Filed: 05/31/2012
• Issued: 09/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amg Ip LLC, Andrew Lentvorski, Carolyn Newbold, Chapman A. Michael, Keith Newbold, Lshadi Partners, Ltd., Margaret Martinson William, Jr., Rock Systems Holdings, LLC
• Original Assignee: Airborne Media Group, Inc.
• Inventors: Brown, Cordell, Ginn, Justin, Danford, Ryan, Lile, Chip
• Primary Examiner(s): Hua, Quan M
• Application Number:
  US13/485,779
• Publication Number:
  US 20120309366A1
• Time in Patent Office: 831 Days
• Field of Search: 725/35, 725/36, 725/61, 725/62, 725/74, 455/404.2, 455/407, 455/411, 455/414.1, 455/432.1, 455/435.1, 455/435, 370328-338, 705/14.4, 705/14.57, 705/14.73
• US Class Current: 455/414.3
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25841 involving the geographical location of the client retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; arrangements for identifying locations of receiving stations in broadcast systems H04H60/51; location of the user terminal in data switching networks H04L67/52; services making use of the location of users or terminals in wireless networks H04W4/02; locating users or terminals in wireless networks H04W64/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25866 Management of end-user data customer care in data networks H04L41/5077
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4126 The peripheral being portable, e.g. PDAs or mobile phones
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41415 involving a public display, viewable by several users in a public space outside their home, e.g. movie theatre, information kiosk
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42202 environmental sensors, e.g. for detecting temperature, luminosity, pressure, earthquakes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43637 involving a wireless protocol, e.g. Bluetooth, RF or wireless LAN [IEEE 802.11] arrangements for wireless networking or broadcasting of information in indoor or near-field type systems H04B10/114
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8106 involving special audio data, e.g. different tracks for different languages
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences

Abstract

Methods and systems for venue-oriented commerce via a mobile communication device are presented. An example system may include an access device and a communication node. The access device may be located at a commercial venue and communicatively coupled via a local area network with a mobile communication device located at the venue. The communication node may be communicatively coupled to the access device via a wide area network to provide a commercial service related to the commercial venue to a user of the mobile communication device. The access device may exchange information relating to the commercial service between the communication node and the mobile communication device.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

an access device located at a commercial venue, the access device being communicatively coupled via a local area network with a mobile communication device located at the commercial venue, the access device configured to receive each of a plurality of digital audio streams from an audio relay device coupled with an audio output of a corresponding video display device displaying video content to a user of the mobile communication device, the access device configured to transmit wirelessly at least one of the received digital audio streams via the local area network to the mobile communication device, the video display device being different than the mobile communication device; and

a communication node communicatively coupled to the access device via a wide area network, the communication node comprising a venue subscription module configured to maintain a subscription for a commercial entity associated with the commercial venue to provide a commercial service related to the commercial venue to the user of the mobile communication device via the access device;

the access device configured to exchange information between the communication node via the wide area network and the mobile communication device via the local area network, the information relating to the commercial service; and

the communication node configured to receive from the access device a selection by the user of the mobile communication device of one of the plurality of digital audio streams that is received from the audio relay device for presentation to the user, and to provide to the mobile communication device content associated with the commercial service offered by one or more commercial entities with subscriptions maintained by the communication node based on the selection by the user.

2. The system of claim 1, the commercial service including the transmitting wirelessly of the received digital audio streams to the mobile communication device.

3. The system of claim 1, the communication node comprising a user administration module to register the user of the mobile communication device with the communication node, the registering of the user comprising storing information identifying the user.

4. The system of claim 3, the user administration module to recognize the user of the mobile communication device while the mobile communication device is coupled to a second access device located at a second commercial venue and communicatively coupled with the communication node based on the information identifying the user.

5. The system of claim 1, the communication node comprising a user analytics module to monitor connections of the mobile communication device to the access device.

6. The system of claim 5, the user analytics module to determine a type of commercial service provided to the user of the mobile communication device based on the monitoring of the connections of the mobile communication device to the access device.

7. The system of claim 6, the user analytics module to cause advertising to be directed to the mobile communication device based on the type of commercial service provided to the user.

8. The system of claim 5, the user analytics module to configure the access device based on the monitoring of the connections of the mobile communication device to the access device.

9. The system of claim 1, the communication node comprising an advertising subscription module to maintain an advertising subscription of an advertiser with the communication node, the advertising subscription allowing the advertiser to provide advertising to the mobile communication device via the communication node and the access device.

10. The system of claim 9, the advertiser being the commercial entity associated with the commercial venue.

11. The system of claim 9, the advertiser being a regional or national commercial entity not associated with the commercial venue.

12. The system of claim 1, the communication node comprising an advertising content module to receive advertising content from an advertising subscriber of the communication node, to store the advertising content, and to transmit the advertising content to the mobile communication device via the access device.

13. The system of claim 12, the advertising subscriber comprising the commercial entity associated with the commercial venue.

14. The system of claim 12, the advertising content comprising an instruction to open a web page representing the advertising subscriber in response to the user of the mobile communication device activating the advertising content on the mobile communication device.

15. The system of claim 1, the communication node comprising an advertising audience report module to generate a report including information describing the user of the mobile communication device and to provide the report to an advertiser subscribed to the communication node.

16. The system of claim 15, the report including information comprising at least one of demographic information, personal interest information, survey response information, and point-of-sale transaction information.

17. The system of claim 1, the communication node comprising a point-of-sale module to offer a product available at the commercial venue to the user of the mobile communication device via the access device.

18. The system of claim 1, the communication node comprising a mobile commerce module to offer a product to the user of the mobile communication device via the access device.

19. The system of claim 1, the communication node comprising a customer loyalty service module to provide the user of the mobile communication device access to a customer loyalty program maintained by the commercial entity associated with the commercial venue.

20. The system of claim 1, the access device to provide a point-of-sale transaction at the commercial venue for the user via the mobile communication device.

21. The system of claim 1, the access device to provide access to the user via the mobile communication device of a customer loyalty program for the commercial entity associated with the commercial venue.

22. A method comprising:

receiving, at an access device located at a commercial venue, each of a plurality of digital audio streams from an audio relay device coupled with an audio output of a corresponding video display device displaying video content to a user of a mobile communication device located at the commercial venue, the video display device being different than the mobile communication device;

transmitting wirelessly, from the access device, at least one of the received digital audio streams to the mobile communication device via a local area network;

maintaining, at a communication node coupled with the access device via a wide area network, a subscription for a commercial entity associated with the commercial venue to provide a commercial service related to the commercial venue to the user of the mobile communication device via the access device;

exchanging, at the access device, information between the mobile communication device via the local area network and the communication node via the wide area network, the information relating to the commercial service;

receiving, at the communication node from the access device, a selection by the user of the mobile communication device of one of the plurality of digital audio streams that is received from the audio relay device for presentation to the user; and

providing, to the mobile communication device, content associated with the commercial service offered by one or more commercial entities with subscriptions maintained by the communication node based on the selection by the user.

23. A tangible computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by at least one hardware processor of a system, cause the system to perform operations comprising:

receiving, at an access device located at a commercial venue, each of a plurality of digital audio streams from an audio relay device coupled with an audio output of a corresponding video display device displaying video content to a user of a mobile communication device located at the commercial venue, the video display device being different than the mobile communication device;

transmitting wirelessly, from the access device, at least one of the received digital audio streams to the mobile communication device via a local area network;

maintaining, at a communication node coupled with the access device via a wide area network, a subscription for a commercial entity associated with the commercial venue to provide a commercial service related to the commercial venue to the user of the mobile communication device via the access device;

exchanging, at the access device, information between the mobile communication device via the local area network and the communication node via the wide area network, the information relating to the commercial service;

receiving, at the communication node from the access device, a selection by the user of the mobile communication device of one of the plurality of digital audio streams that is received from the audio relay device for presentation to the user; and

providing, to the mobile communication device, content associated with the commercial service offered by one or more commercial entities with subscriptions maintained by the communication node based on the selection by the user.