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AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsDavid A. Deas, Lalitha Suryanarayana, Bruce Edward Stuckman, David Randall Wolter, Rias Muhamed, Russell William White, Michael Grannan
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One or more content providers push data related to: movies, movie products, digital movie content over a network (e.g., a LAN, a WAN, the Internet, or a wireless network) onto an information filling station which, in turn, wirelessly transacts (over a network based on the 802.11b protocol) and transmits any requested data to a portable computer-based device (e.g., laptop, a pen-based computer device, a PDA, a wireless phone, or a pager). The portable device performs financial transactions for: purchasing movie tickets (directly or via auctions), downloading digital entertainment content of interest (e.g., copy of a movie of interest, copy of a movie identified based on a pre-stored profile, copy of soundtrack of a movie of interest), or movie related products. Any purchased digital content is either transferred wirelessly onto the portable device or, optionally, sent on a storage medium to a physical address associated with the profile.
An article of manufacture comprising computer usable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein to implement a method to aid in the wireless transmission of requested information and digital data content related to movies from an information filling station (IFS) to a portable computer-based device, said transmission based upon a wireless protocol, said medium comprising:
An article of manufacture comprising computer usable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein to implement a method to wirelessly receiving information and digital data content related to movies from an information filling station (IFS) onto a portable device, said medium comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.