PLACE BASED MEDIA AND ADVERTISING DISPLAY

• US 20070271579A1
• Filed: 05/15/2007
• Published: 11/22/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Office Media Network Incorporated (Captivate, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Office Media Network Incorporated (Captivate, LLC)
• Inventors: Harris, James H., Lee, Robert E.
• Application Number:
  US11/748,557
• Publication Number:
  US 20070271579A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/567 Integrating service provisioning from a plurality of service providers

Abstract

An advertising system using digital media collects information from a plurality of sources, automatically processes the information based on set of predetermined criteria, and provides processed information to a plurality of information and advertising display devices. The advertising system allows the information feed provided to each of the display devices to be customized based on a rule set so that the information displayed on each section of a particular display device is customized according to predetermined criteria. The advertising system also allows a user of a particular display device to provide local information that to be displayed in a section of that particular display device.

Claims

1. A method of displaying information on a display device, wherein the display device is communicatively connected to a network via a controller, the network having a plurality of information sources, the method comprising:

obtaining content from each of the plurality of information source;

automatically processing the content using a feed engine based on predetermined criteria;

communicating the processed content to the controller; and

displaying the content on the display device based on a rule set stored on the controller.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising requesting content from each of the plurality of information source and retrieving content from each of the plurality of information sources.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the content on the display device further comprises displaying content from a first information source on a first section of the display and displaying content from a second information source on a second section of the display.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein displaying the content on the display device further comprises displaying an advertisement on the third section of the display.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein receiving content from each of the plurality of information sources comprises receiving content in the form of extensible markup language (XML) files.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein processing the content further comprises parsing the XML content files and generating network data files.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the network data files include at least one of:

(1) a news data file, (2) a market information data file;

(3) a weather information data file;

(4) a scroller data file; and

(5) a traffic information data file.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein communicating the processed content to the controller further comprises communicating at least one of the data file to the controller using file transfer protocol (FTP).

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising allowing a user of the controller to change the predetermined criteria using a first website.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising allowing a user of the controller to input a first message using the first website and displaying the first message on a fourth section of the display device.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising allowing a user of the controller to overwrite the content displayed on the display device with a message to be displayed on the display device.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving an input from a user at the display device and communicating the user input to at least one of the plurality of information sources.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of information sources is a web-server providing information to one of a plurality of websites.

14. The method of claim 2, wherein requesting content from each of the plurality of information sources further comprises:

receiving an information request from a user of the controller;

generating a request for content based on the information request from the user of the controller; and

communicating the request for content to each of the plurality of information sources.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the content on the display device further comprises displaying the content on the display device located in at least one of:

(1) a lobby of an office complex;

(2) a public transportation hub;

(3) a coffee house; and

(4) a restaurant.

16. A system for displaying information from a plurality of information sources on a display device, the system comprising:

a network center communicatively connected to each of the plurality of information sources, the network center adapted to communicate requests for content to each of the plurality of information sources;

the plurality of information sources adapted to communicate information content to the network center in response to the requests from the network center;

a memory communicatively connected to the processor to store a set of predetermined criteria, wherein the predetermined criteria is used by the network center in at least one of;

(1) generating the requests for content to be sent to the information sources;

(2) processing the information content received from the information sources; and

(3) generating a plurality of data files to be sent to a plurality of controllers;

the plurality of controllers communicatively connected to the network center to receive data files, wherein each of the plurality of controllers are connected at one of a plurality of display devices; and

each of the plurality of display devices adapted to display the content of the data files received at its corresponding controller on a section of the display device.

17. The system of claim 16, further comprising allowing access to a controller using a website and using the website to change the content of the data files.

18. The system of claim 16, further comprising allowing access to network center to modify the predetermined criteria.

19. The system of claim 16, further comprising using wireless signals to communicate with the display devices.

20. The system of claim 16, further comprising using an encrypted message to communicate with the display devices.