System for delivering data to users

• US 8,989,673 B2
• Filed: 09/28/2012
• Issued: 03/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Medea Inc.
• Original Assignee: Medea Inc.
• Inventors: Sandy, Matt
• Primary Examiner(s): Hsieh, Ping
• Assistant Examiner(s): Yang, James
• Application Number:
  US13/630,033
• Publication Number:
  US 20140094126A1
• Time in Patent Office: 907 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 455/66.1
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2203/12 Audible, olfactory or visual signalling means B65D51/248, B65D55/028, B65D79/02 and B65D81/24 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 23/00 Details of bottles or jars not otherwise provided for closure-securing elements B65D45/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 11/00 Transmission systems employing sonic, ultrasonic or infrasonic waves

Abstract

A system for delivering data to a user includes a beverage container provided with an electronic device having an electronic display, and a portable electronic apparatus such as an electronic mobile phone or an electronic tablet, so that a user operates the portable electronic apparatus to compose data, which are transmitted via ultra-sound to the beverage container and displayed on its electronic display.

Claims

1. A system, comprising

a portable electronic apparatus, selected from the group consisting of an electronic mobile phone and an electronic tablet, the portable electronic apparatus comprising:

an input mechanism comprising at least one of a touchscreen or a keyboard, wherein the input mechanism is to receive user input comprising a composition of a text message;

a first processor to process data including the text message; and

a first ultrasonic module comprising an ultrasonic transmitter to generate an ultrasound signal from the data including the text message and to remotely transmit the ultrasound signal comprising the data including the text message to an ultrasonic receiver of an electronic device of a beverage container; and

the beverage container, comprising;

one or more walls that limit an inner space of the container for accommodating a beverage;

the electronic device, attached to the one or more walls, wherein said electronic device comprises;

a second ultrasound module comprising the ultrasonic receiver, wherein the ultrasonic receiver is to receive the ultrasound signal comprising the data including the text message and the second ultrasound module is to output the data including the text message to a second processor of the electronic device;

the second processor to receive the data including the text message and to provide the data including the text message to an electronic display of the electronic device; and

the electronic display to electronically display on said electronic display the text message of the data received by said ultrasonic receiver, wherein the electronic display comprises at least one of a plurality of light emitting diodes or a plurality of organic light emitting diodes to display the text message.

2. A system for delivering data to a user as defined in claim 1, wherein said ultrasonic transmitter comprises a speaker provided in said portable electronic apparatus, and said ultrasonic receiver comprises a microphone provided in said electronic device of said beverage container.

3. A system for delivering data to a user as defined in claim 1, wherein said

data further includes at least one of video messages or audio messages.

4. A system for delivering data to a user as defined in claim 1, wherein:

said portable electronic apparatus is further to generate additional data comprising an instruction to activate in said electronic device of said beverage bottle an additional text message previously stored in a memory of said electronic device, and to directly send the additional data via an additional ultrasound signal from the ultrasonic transmitter of the portable electronic apparatus to the ultrasonic receiver of the electronic device, wherein the additional data is sent from the portable electronic apparatus to the electronic device without travelling through any additional intermediary devices; and

said electronic device is further to output the additional text message previously stored in the memory of the electronic device on at least one of the plurality of light emitting diodes or the plurality of organic light emitting diodes responsive to receipt of the additional data comprising the instruction.