Portable Display Host System for Personalized Messaging
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems for displaying content on signs, such as marquee signs or electronic displays, lack the ability to present advanced features like personalized messages with images, fonts, and interactive elements, limiting their effectiveness in enhancing venue experiences.
Innovation Solution
A system comprising a portable electronic display and a host system that facilitates wireless communication to display personalized messages and images on the portable display, allowing for real-time approval and activation of content requests, and enabling features like font customization and image integration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional marquee signs or basic electronic displays are used, then the system is simple and easy to operate, but the ability to present personalized messages with images, fonts, and interactive elements is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a host system as an intermediary between the portable display and the content delivery network. The host system manages content requests, approvals, and deliveries, enabling advanced personalized messaging capabilities while keeping the portable display itself relatively simple. This mediator handles the complexity of content management, image integration, and font customization without requiring the display device to be overly complex.
Solution Approach 2:
The portable electronic display is designed to perform multiple functions: displaying personalized messages, showing images, supporting various fonts, and enabling interactive elements. By making the display device multi-functional, the system achieves high adaptability for different venue experiences without requiring multiple separate devices for each function.
2Productivity
If manual content preparation is required for displaying messages on signs, then the system is simpler with fewer automated components, but the efficiency and time required for content preparation increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service content preparation through automated workflows. The host system automatically receives content requests from mobile devices, manages approval processes, and delivers content to the portable display without requiring manual intervention for each step. This automation significantly improves productivity while maintaining appropriate levels of control through approval mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The host system performs preliminary actions by pre-processing and preparing content before it reaches the display. Content is approved, formatted, and ready for delivery in advance, which streamlines the overall process and reduces the time required for actual content preparation and display setup.
3Adaptability or versatility
If basic display functionality is provided, then the system uses fewer resources and has lower operational costs, but the ability to enhance venue experiences and generate revenue through sponsored experiences is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The display system dynamically adapts its resource consumption based on the content being displayed. When showing personalized messages with images and interactive elements, the system uses appropriate computational and display resources. When in idle or basic display mode, resource consumption is reduced. This dynamic operation allows the system to provide enhanced venue experiences when needed while managing resource usage efficiently during normal operation.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for displaying content on a portable display. One of the systems includes a portable electronic display for displaying a personalized message and that includes a first communication module; and a host system that includes a second communication module and is in wireless communication with the portable electronic display and with one or more requesting mobile devices, the host system being programmed to receive a message request from one of the one or more requesting mobile devices, present the message request for approval, upon approval and activation, send, using the second communication module and to the first communication module, the personalized message to the portable display for display.