Location enhanced information delivery system
First Claim
1. A system for customizing the delivery of information by an information server to a plurality of information recipients, wherein said information server transmits said information to information recipients who are located within a predetermined vicinity of said information server, comprising:
- means for determining a presence of potential information recipients of said information in said vicinity of said information server;
means for determining an identity of said potential information recipients of said information; and
means for modifying said information as a function of said determined identity of said potential information recipients.
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Abstract
The Location Enhanced Information Deliver System Architecture (LEIA) customizes the information that is displayed to an information recipient based on optimizing a match between information purveyors, such as advertisers, and the information recipients who are local to an information delivery system. The present location enhanced information delivery system presents the information most suited to the real current audience, as measured by location information systems, rather than to a static predicted audience. While the preferred embodiment discloses a beaconing-style wireless technology, the system concept is easily extensible both to other location-information systems, such as license-plate scanning with cameras, and to utilizing the location-information for private displays of information in addition to public displays of information.
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32 Claims
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1. A system for customizing the delivery of information by an information server to a plurality of information recipients, wherein said information server transmits said information to information recipients who are located within a predetermined vicinity of said information server, comprising:
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means for determining a presence of potential information recipients of said information in said vicinity of said information server;
means for determining an identity of said potential information recipients of said information; and
means for modifying said information as a function of said determined identity of said potential information recipients. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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6. The system for customizing the delivery of information of claim wherein said means for modifying said information comprises:
means, responsive to said user profiles of said information recipients who are located within a predetermined vicinity of said information server, for identifying an appropriate set of information to be displayed to said information recipients who are located within a predetermined vicinity of said information server. - View Dependent Claims (7)
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14. A method for customizing the delivery of information by an information server to a plurality of information recipients, wherein said information server transmits said information to information recipients who are located within a predetermined vicinity of said information server, comprising the steps of:
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determining a presence of potential information recipients of said information in said vicinity of said information server;
determining an identity of said potential information recipients of said information; and
modifying said information as a function of said determined identity of said potential information recipients. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. A system for customizing the delivery of information by an information server to a plurality of information recipients, wherein said information server transmits said information to information recipients who are located within a predetermined vicinity of said information server, comprising:
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means for determining a population of information recipients in said vicinity of said information server;
means for determining an identity of each of said information;
means for determining a composite user profile for said population of information recipients; and
means for delivering information that is a function of said composite user profile. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29)
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30. A method for customizing the delivery of information by an information server to a plurality of information recipients, wherein said information server transmits said information to information recipients who are located within a predetermined vicinity of said information server, comprising the steps of:
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determining a population of information recipients in said vicinity of said information server;
determining an identity of each of said information;
determining a composite user profile for said population of information recipients; and
delivering information that is a function of said composite user profile. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32)
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