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Device to monitor the content and/or display of messages

a technology for displaying messages and content, applied in the field of devices to monitor the content and/or display of messages, can solve the problems of not realizing the duration of the display, difficult management of handling tasks, and affecting the display

Inactive Publication Date: 2001-11-27
STMICROELECTRONICS SRL
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Problems solved by technology

The problems related to the displaying of advertisements are well known.
This handling task is difficult to manage.
In this system of display, however, there is no real check on the duration of the display.
This modification too entails difficult handling operations.

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A public type of telephone booth 1 has a telephone 2. A display panel 3 is functionally connected to the telephone 2. The device of the invention has means 4 so that the display time of a message on the panel 3 depends on the duration of a telephone communication with the telephone 2. In a preferred way, the telephone 2 has a till 5 to enable the insertion of a pre-payment electronic card 6. This card 6 has pre-payment units 7. To set off the countdown of the units used, the card 6, known as a memory card or an electronic chip card, has terminals such as 8 providing access to its memory. The memory of this card has memory zones where the pre-payment units 7 are programmed. The telephone set 2 has an exchange interface 10 of a standard type with the pre-payment memory card 6 to set off the countdown operation.

In a preferred way, the memory card 6 may also have another memorizing zone 9 to contain an advertisement. The interface 10 may be improved, in telephone sets fitted for this pu...

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Abstract

The period for which advertisements are displayed on display screens is monitored by coupling the displaying time with the time of a telephone call from a public telephone booth near the display panel. Preferably, the call made from this booth is paid with a pre-payment memory card. This memory card also has a memorizing zone in which it is possible to record an advertisement which is precisely the advertisement to be displayed.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION1. Field of the InventionAn object of the present invention is a device to monitor the content and / or duration of the display of advertisements. It can be applied in active types of display, notably when the display is done through electrical or electronic display devices.2. Description of the Prior ArtThe problems related to the displaying of advertisements are well known. An advertiser signs a contract with a hoardings company by virtue of which the advertising or display panels belonging to the company display, for a pre-determined time, advertisements praising the merits of the products manufactured or marketed by this advertiser. At the end of the contract, the advertisements are replaced by advertisements from other advertisers. When the hoardings are designed to take posters, one simply sticks a poster for the products of an advertiser on top of a previous advertisement. This handling task is difficult to manage. It requires a great number of workme...

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IPC IPC(8): G09F23/02G09F23/00
CPCG09F23/02
Inventor BRISSON, PIERRE
Owner STMICROELECTRONICS SRL
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