Theater control system and method
AssigneeCj Cgv Co., Ltd.
InventorsSoo Jin KIM, Wayne OHM
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a system and method for collecting, by a single server, an overall situation of theaters operating in various areas nationwide or all over the world, for example, state information, maintenance and repair information about each theater, and theater information of screening-related devices and for enabling a user to control a plurality of theaters using such pieces of information. To this end, the present invention includes a theater server included in each theater and a control server configured to receive a variety of pieces of information from the theater server and process the information.
Claims18
A theater control system, comprising:
- a theater server configured to collect state information from screening-related devices included in a theater, generate a state message based on the state information, and transmit the generated state message to a control server;
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- the control server configured to receive the state message from the theater server, extract state information from the state message, and provide the extracted state information to a user.
A control server, comprising:
- a reception unit configured to receive a state message comprising state information about screening-related devices within a theater from a theater server;
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- a state information management unit configured to extract state information from the state message and to provide the extracted state information to a user.
A method for controlling, by a control server, theaters, comprising:
- receiving a state message comprising state information about attached devices within a theater;
- extracting the state information from the state message;
- and
- providing the extracted state information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.