Wireless tag communication applications for a venue

• US 9,984,383 B2
• Filed: 10/24/2012
• Issued: 05/29/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ripple Resort Media Incorporated (AllOver Media, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Ripple Resort Media Incorporated (AllOver Media, LLC)
• Inventors: Jay, Matthew, Knall, Laurence Wade
• Primary Examiner(s): Pan, Yuwen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tran, Paul P
• Application Number:
  US13/659,761
• Publication Number:
  US 20130102248A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,043 Days
• Field of Search: 455 411, 455 412, 4554041, 455411, 4554142, 455418, 4554561, 455457, 235375, 235380, 235383, 235451, 340 101, 340 104, 340 25, 340 721, 348143, 3482312, 370252, 463 7, 705 261, 705 2641, 709227
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9554 by using bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/30 Services specially adapted for particular environments, situations or purposes
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/33 for indoor environments, e.g. buildings
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

A system for delivering information to a venue guest includes a wireless tag within the venue and having a Universal Resource Locator (URL) stored therein, and a server for providing the information through a web page addressable by the URL. The web page displays the information to any portable media device that interfaces with the wireless tag. A system for delivering location specific information of a venue to a guest at the venue includes a venue app that contains the information and downloadable, machine readable, instructions that are compatible with a portable media device, and a wireless tag having a location indicator is associated with a location of the tag within the venue. If the venue app is executed by the portable media device, and receives the location indicator from the wireless tag, the venue app displays the information, based upon the location indicator, on the portable media device.

Claims

1. A system for delivering information to a guest at a venue, the venue being a ski resort, comprising:

a wireless tag attached to one of a chair lift and a gondola located within the ski resort, the wireless tag being positioned at a ski map located on the chair lift or the gondola and having a Universal Resource Locator (URL) stored therein;

a venue server for hosting a web page addressable by the URL; and

a database coupled to the venue server and storing the information related to the venue, the information being accessible via the web page and comprising at least one of slope grooming information, ski lift openings and closures, ski lift wait times, terrain information, an advertisement, and a location identifier associated with the location of the wireless tag;

wherein the web page displaying the information to a portable media device, upon scanning of the wireless tag via a wireless reader within the portable media device, used by the guest, that interfaces with the wireless tag.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the wireless tag is an NFC tag.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the information includes one or more of audio, video, graphic and text presentation of safety information associated with use of the mobility device.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the venue server communicates with an advertisement server coupled with an advertisement database storing the advertisement, and wherein the advertisement is included within the web page and is delivered to the guest at the portable media device.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the venue server obtains guest information from the portable media device and transmits the guest information to the advertisement server, the guest information including information of the guest and/or the guest'"'"'s portable media device.

6. The system of claim 1, the information comprising survey information, and wherein the web page provides the survey information to the guest via the portable media device and uploads responses of the guest to the venue server.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the web page includes a coupon for storage on the portable media device and for use within the venue.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the web page contains an announcement of a competition within the ski resort, and links to (a) terms of the competition, and (b) a feature indicating agreement to the terms, and wherein if the guest activates the feature indicating agreement to the terms, the portable media device is redirected to a competition web page that contains information of the competition.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein upon the guest agreeing to the terms, the web page retrieves information of the guest from the portable media device and transmits the information to a third party.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the web page contains an announcement of a survey and a link to a survey web page, wherein if the guest follows the link, the portable media device is redirected to the survey web page.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the web page contains a selectable link to a social networking web page, wherein the portable media device of the guest receives the URL from the wireless tag and automatically connects to the web page to display the selectable link, and wherein, upon selection of the selectable link by the guest, the server sends information of the selectable link to a social networking server that provides the social networking web page.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the selectable link initiates a “

like”

of the guest for an advertisement located proximate the wireless tag.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the location identifier within the wireless tag that identifies a location defined by the social networking server, wherein the selectable link initiates a “

check-in”

of the guest at the location.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the web page invokes an upload script for uploading a photograph from the portable media device.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein the location identifier identifies the chair by ski lift and/or by chair.

16. A method for delivering information to a guest at a venue, the venue being a ski resort, comprising:

configuring a web page with the information, wherein the web page is addressable by a Universal Resource Locator (URL);

receiving an access request to the URL from a portable media device of the guest when a wireless reader within the portable media device interfaces with a wireless tag attached to one of a chair lift and a gondola located within the ski resort, the wireless tag being positioned at a ski map located on the chair lift or gondola; and

delivering the information to the guest by sending the web page to the portable media device;

wherein the information corresponds to the location of the wireless tag within the venue.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising retrieving the information from database running on a venue server to configure the web page.

18. A method for delivering information to a guest at a venue, the venue being a ski resort, comprising:

configuring a web page, addressable by a Universal Resource Locator (URL), with the information;

receiving an access request to the URL from a portable media device upon a wireless reader within the portable media device reading the URL from a wireless tag attached to one of a chair lift and a gondola located within the ski resort, the wireless tag being positioned at a ski map attached to the chair lift or gondola; and

sending the web page to the portable media device for delivery to the guest;

wherein the information corresponds to the location of the wireless tag within the ski resort.