Telephone system with customizable advertising functionalities
AssigneeUnified Office, Inc.
InventorsRaymond Pasquale, Thomas R. Phelan
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Abstract
A system includes multiple in-room telephones (e.g., in the rooms of a hotel or the like) with integrated tablet-like touch displays in each one of multiple rooms, a computer-based server that is connected to the in-room telephones and interacts with the in-room telephones to provide configuration information to facilitate display of advertising information including, for example, logos, at the touch displays of the in-room telephones, and one or more computer control terminals connected to the computer-based server and operable to facilitate human control over various aspects of system operation including the advertising information displayed at the touch displays of the in-room telephones.
Claims9
A system comprising:
- a plurality of in-room telephones with integrated tablet-like touch displays in each one of a plurality of rooms;
- a computer-based server that is connected to the in-room telephones and interacts with the in-room telephones to provide configuration information to facilitate display of advertising information at the touch displays of the in-room telephones;
- and
- one or more computer control terminals connected to the computer-based server and operable to facilitate human control over various aspects of system operation including the advertising information displayed at the touch displays of the in-room telephones,
- wherein each of the in-room telephones is configured to display one or more logos of associated businesses on its touch display,
- wherein the one or more computer control terminals enable a human staff member to specify businesses whose advertising information is to be displayed at the touch displays of the in-room telephones,
- wherein the touch displays are configured to cycle through a selection of advertising information for businesses specified by the human staff member at one of the computer control terminals, and wherein cycling through the selection of advertising information comprises:
- showing no more than some set maximum number of logos on the touch displays at any given time;
- and
- periodically replacing some number of the logos being displayed at each of the touch displays with different logos.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.