US 6,439,457 B1Granted

Method and system for personalized message storage and retrieval

AssigneeKoninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.

InventorGeorge Marmaropoulos

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Abstract

A personalized memory storage apparatus and an associated display apparatus for the personalized memory storage apparatus. The personalized memory storage apparatus, memory pebbles, include a body and a key, where the body includes an electronic unit having a chip, an input and output device, a battery or other power source and a reader/contact and the key includes an electronically readable element therein which is read by the reader/contact to allow activation of the electronic unit for recording and replaying electronic data. The memory pebble also includes a chamber or slot for storing a physical items such as a photograph, coin, emblem or the like. The display apparatus includes sockets for receiving the pebbles and generally a centralized playback unit for replaying the electronic data contained in each pebble. The display apparatus allows large number of pebbles to be viewed for present and future enjoyment.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A method of personalized message storage and retrieval, comprising:

respectively distributing a plurality of message recording units to a number of persons, each message recording unit being associated with an identity code unique within the system, each said message recording unit including a storage unit associated with the unique identity code and a key associated with the unique identity code;
instructing each of the persons to record a personalized message in their message recording unit;
storing each said respective personalized message in the respective storage unit of the respective message recording unit;
instructing each of the persons to remove the key from their message recording unit after recording their personalized message;
instructing each of the persons to forward their storage unit to a central message archive unit;
retrieving and storing each respective personalized message along with the unique identity code associated with its respective storage unit into the central message archive unit;
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reproducing a selected one of the personalized messages at the central message archive unit when presented with the unique identity code associated with said selected one of the personalized messages.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 09/549,689Filed 14 Apr 2000
Granted: 27 Aug 2002
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

G11C 7/24
Arrangements for writing information into, or reading information out from, a digital store: memory cell safety or protection circuits, e.g.…
G11C 7/16
Arrangements for writing information into, or reading information out from, a digital store: storage of analogue signals in digital stores using…
G11C 2207/16
Indexing scheme relating to arrangements for writing information into, or reading information out from, a digital store: solid state audio
G11C
Static stores