Digital sign network
AssigneeTexas Emergency Network, LLC
InventorsCurtis E. Ford, Drew Cartwright
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Abstract
The disclosed subject matter provides a digital sign with a video camera. The digital sign and video camera are connected via a communications medium to a central computer. The central computer provides a way of changing the images displayed on the digital sign and of disseminating the video from the video camera either through real time forwarding/viewing or recording the real time video stream and playing back the recorded video to a user. The central computer also provides a user interface where an authorized user, which would normally include an authorized governmental entity, can view the video stream and unilaterally interrupt the normally displayed image (or series of images) with an emergency notification message that would display on the digital sign.
Claims20
A system, comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- a non-transitory, computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that are executable by the at least one processor to cause the system to:
- receive, from a user, user input indicative of user credentials for the user;
- verify the user credentials to determine whether the user is an authorized user of the system;
- subsequent to verifying the user credentials, provide, to the user, a map-based interface that is usable to access one or more of a plurality of digital signs;
- receive, from the user via the map-based interface, a selection of a particular geographic area;
- in response to the selection, present, via the map-based interface, a subset of digital signs, from a set of the plurality of digital signs that are located in the particular geographic area, that the user is authorized to access;
- receive, via the map-based interface, a selection of a particular digital sign from the subset of digital signs;
- receive message information corresponding to a message to display on the particular digital sign, wherein the message information includes:
- the message;
- and
- an indication of a priority level of the message;
- and
- interrupt content being displayed on the particular digital sign to cause the message to be displayed, on the particular digital sign, according to the priority level of the message.
A method, comprising:
- receiving, from a user, user input indicative of user credentials for the user;
- verifying, by a computer system, the user credentials to determine whether the user is an authorized user;
- subsequent to verifying the user credentials, providing, to the user, a map-based interface that is usable to access one or more of a plurality of digital signs;
- receiving, from the user via the map-based interface, a selection of a particular geographic area;
- in response to the selection, presenting, via the map-based interface, a subset of digital signs, from a set of the plurality of digital signs that are located in the particular geographic area, that the user is authorized to access;
- receiving, via the map-based interface, a selection of a particular digital sign from the subset of digital signs;
- receiving message information corresponding to a message to display on the particular digital sign, wherein the message information includes:
- the message;
- and
- an indication of a priority level of the message;
- and
- interrupting content being displayed on the particular digital sign to cause the message to be displayed, on the particular digital sign, according to the priority level of the message.
A non-transitory, computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that are executable by a computer system to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, from a user, user input indicative of user credentials for the user;
- verifying the user credentials to determine whether the user is an authorized user;
- subsequent to verifying the user credentials, providing, to the user, a map-based interface that is usable to access one or more of a plurality of digital signs;
- receiving, from the user via the map-based interface, a selection of a particular geographic area;
- in response to the selection, presenting, via the map-based interface, a subset of digital signs, from a set of the plurality of digital signs that are located in the particular geographic area, that the user is authorized to access;
- receiving, via the map-based interface, a selection of a particular digital sign from the subset of digital signs;
- receiving message information corresponding to a message to display on the particular digital sign, wherein the message information includes:
- the message;
- and
- an indication of a priority level of the message;
- and
- interrupting content being displayed on the particular digital sign to cause the message to be displayed, on the particular digital sign, according to the priority level of the message.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.