Wireless dissemination of environment aware information

A portable device for non-spamming dissemination of proximity aware information to a user of the portable device, comprising:

• a screen configured to display solicitations associated with services or products provided by a plurality of vendors in a vicinity of a plurality of base station devices;
• and
• a processor configured to:
• filter the solicitations for the services or products provided by the plurality of vendors in the vicinity of the plurality of base station devices and received by using a Bluetooth wireless protocol from the plurality of base station devices according to filtering criteria configured in the portable device, wherein the portable device receives an uncategorized solicitation including a uniform resource locator from each of the plurality of base station devices through the Bluetooth wireless protocol,
• categorize the filtered solicitations for the services or products provided by the plurality of vendors in the a vicinity of the plurality of base station devices into multiple categories by the processor using a categorization engine comprised in a client application on the portable device,
• display the filtered solicitations on the screen as categorized into the multiple categories by using the categorization engine comprised in the client application,
• receive an input for selecting a solicitation from the filtered solicitations displayed on the screen formed in the portable device,
• receive additional detailed advertising information from a data server through a wireless internet service by using the uniform resource locator included in the selected solicitation, wherein the additional detailed advertising information corresponds to the selected solicitation from the filtered solicitations displayed on the screen, wherein the additional detailed advertising information received from the data server through the wireless internet service corresponds to one of the solicitations received from the plurality of base station devices through the Bluetooth wireless protocol, and
• display the additional detailed advertising information corresponding to the selected solicitation on the screen.

A non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with computer executable instructions that, when executed, cause a portable terminal to perform the steps of:

• requesting, by a portable device, solicitations associated with services or products provided by a plurality of vendors in a vicinity of a plurality of base station devices to the plurality of base station devices by using a Bluetooth wireless protocol;
• receiving, by the portable device, the solicitations associated with services or products provided by the plurality of vendors in the vicinity of the plurality of base station devices from the plurality of base station devices, wherein the portable device receives an uncategorized solicitation including a uniform resource locator from each of the plurality of base station devices through the Bluetooth wireless protocol;
• filtering, by the portable device, the solicitations associated with services or products provided by the a plurality of vendors in the vicinity of the plurality of base station devices and received from the plurality of base station devices according to filtering criteria configured in the portable device;
• categorizing, by using a categorization engine comprised in a client application on the portable device, the filtered solicitations into multiple categories;
• displaying, by the portable device, the filtered solicitations on a screen formed in the portable device, wherein the filtered solicitations for the services or products provided by the plurality of vendors in the vicinity of the plurality of base station devices are displayed as categorized into the multiple categories by using the categorization engine comprised in the client application on the portable device;
• receiving, by the portable device, an input for selecting a solicitation from the filtered solicitations displayed on the screen formed in the portable device;
• receiving, by the portable device, additional detailed advertising information corresponding to the selected solicitation from a data server through a wireless internet service by using the uniform resource locator included in the selected solicitation;
• and
• displaying, by the portable device, the additional detailed advertising information corresponding to the selected solicitation on the screen formed in the portable device, wherein the additional detailed advertising information received from the data server through the wireless internet service corresponds to one of the solicitations received from the plurality of base station devices through the Bluetooth wireless protocol.