Information portal
AssigneeGannett Satellite Information Network, Inc.
InventorTodd A. Newville
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Abstract
A communication system for providing high-speed wireless access to mobile processing systems a stationary transceiver defining an information portal in its immediate vicinity. A local server in communication with this stationary transceiver is configured to respond to a mobile processing-system present within the information portal.
Claims12
1-20. (canceled)
A method for providing a mobile processing system with information, said method comprising:
- maintaining an information portal that covers an information portal location;
- establishing wireless communication with a mobile processing system that enters said information portal;
- at least in part on the basis of said information portal location, providing a list of establishments, the establishments having establishment locations that have a selected relationship with said information portal location.
A communication system comprising:
- a stationary transceiver defining an information portal in a vicinity thereor, said information portal having a portal location;
- a local server in communication with said transceiver, said local server being configured to provide, to a mobile processing-system present within said information portal, a list of establishments having establishment locations, said establishment locations having a selected relationship with said portal location.
A computer-readable medium having encoded thereon software for providing a mobile processing system with information, said software copmrising instructions for:
- maintaining an information portal that covers an information portal location;
- establishing wireless communication with a mobile processing system that enters said information portal;
- at least in part on the basis of said information portal location, providing a list of establishments, the establishments having establishment locations that have a selected relationship with said information portal location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.