CELLULAR PHONE SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION RELATING TO OBJECTS OF TOURISM

• US 20100291908A1
• Filed: 11/12/2008
• Published: 11/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/23/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Barna Heder
• Original Assignee: Barna Heder
• Inventors: Heder, Barna
• Application Number:
  US12/744,323
• Publication Number:
  US 20100291908A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/414.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management

Abstract

Cellular phone or internet based system for providing information relating to objects of tourism. The system comprising subscribers'"'"' cellular phones or handheld computer devices provided with a SIM card; information database containing information blocks; and assign codes for assigning said information blocks to said objects. One or more information blocks can be selected from said database on the basis of said assign code entered into the cellular phone or hand-held computer device by a user. Information blocks contain at least textual information in audio or visual form, and the content of said information blocks are activated by entering at least said assign code into the cellular phone or hand-held computer device by the user, the use of said assign codes is enabled by an activating code transmitted to a tourist information supplier previously.

Claims

1. Cellular phone of internet based system for providing information relating to objects of tourism said system comprising subscribers'"'"' cellular phones or hand-held computer devices provided with a SIM card;

information database containing information blocks; and

assign codes for assigning said information blocks to said objects, wherein one or more information blocks can be selected from said database on the basis of said assign code entered into the cellular phone or hand-held computer device by a user characterized in that said information blocks contain at least textual information in audio or visual form, and the content of said information blocks are activated by entering at least said assign code into the cellular phone or hand-held computer device by the user, the use of said assign codes is enabled by an activating code transmitted to a tourist information supplier previously.

2. Cellular phone system according to claim 1 characterized in that said information database containing said information blocks is installed at the mobile service provider of said subscriber'"'"'s cellular phone and said information block activated by said assign code is transmitted to the subscriber'"'"'s cellular phone on-line through a voice transmission channel ensured by said service provider.

3. Cellular phone system according to claim 1 characterized in that said information database containing said information blocks is installed at the mobile service provider of said subscriber'"'"'s cellular phone and said information block activated by said assign code is transmitted to the subscriber'"'"'s cellular phone on-line through an SMS transmission channel ensured by said service provider.

4. Cellular phone or internet based system according to claim 1 characterized in that an assign code can be entered by the user into said subscriber'"'"'s cellular phone or hand-held computer and said cellular phone or hand-held computer is adapted to transmit said assign code to said service provider.

5. Cellular phone system according to claim 1 characterized in that said activating code and said assign code are transmitted to a service provider through SMS.

6. Internet based system according to claim 1 characterized in that said activating code and said assign code are transmitted to a tourist information supplier via the internet or by e-mail.

7. Cellular phone system according to claim 1 characterized in that said activating code and said assign code are transmitted to a service provider by dialing a number and entering said code by means of the keypad.

8. Cellular phone or internet based system according to claim 1 characterized in that a partial database containing several information blocks of said database containing said information blocks is installed in the internal memory of said hand-held computer or subscriber'"'"'s cellular phone or in the SIM card through a data transmission channel established by the tourist information supplier, said installation is activated by a download code, and on entering an assign code into the cellular phone or hand-held computer by the user the required information block is displayed.

9. Cellular phone system according to claim 8 characterized in that said download code is the activating code.

10. Cellular phone system according to claim 8 or 9 characterized in that said data transmission channel established by said tourist information supplier comprises internet transmission.

11. Cellular phone system according to claim 1 characterized in that said information blocks contain visual information in the form of photos or drawings.

12. Cellular phone or interne based system according to claim 1 characterized in that said information blocks contain photos and/or comments produced by the user.

13. Cellular phone or interne based system according to claim 1 characterized in that said photos and/or comments are produced by means of the user'"'"'s cellular phone or hand-held computer and are added to a respective information block.

14. Cellular phone or interne based system according to claim 1 characterized in that said tourist information supplier is a mobile service provider.