Method and apparatus for interactive audience participation at a live entertainment event
AssigneeFrank Bisignano
InventorEric Inselberg
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for providing interactive audience participation at live entertainment events. The method includes use of an interactive device that presents a promotional message and includes a user interface, broadcasting audio programming to the audience member through the interactive device, querying the audience members, wherein answers to the querying may be entered by the audience member via the user interface of the interactive device, transmitting the answers to a central processor, storing the answers as audience data, processing the audience data into results, storing the results of the processing of the audience data and broadcasting the results of the processing of the audience data.
Claims17
A program storage device readable by machine, tangibly embodying a set of computer-readable instructions executable by the machine to allow the machine to interface with a system for enabling interactive participation by audience members viewing a live entertainment event at a venue, the machine having capability (i) to receive and transmit messages, (ii) accept input via a user interface, and (iii) display messages on an electronic display, the system comprising:
- a wireless communication system adapted to transmit and receive messages with the interactive device;
- a display that presents information to one or more audience members that allows audience members to respond to at least one displayed message with feedback entered through the user interface and transmitted by the interactive device;
- a receiving device that receives the feedback at a central processing station or distributed processing stations;
- a storage device that stores the received feedback as audience data;
- a central processor adapted to receive and process the audience data into results;
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- the electronic display is in electrical communication with a local microprocessor in communication with a transceiver for the transmission and receipt of data from a central processor such that when one or more of the audience members are physically located at a place that is outside of a direct, in-person view of the live entertainment event transmission and receipt of data from a central processor is allowed.
A program storage device readable by machine, tangibly embodying computer readable instructions executable by the machine to allow the machine to interface with a system for enabling interactive participation by audience members viewing a live entertainment event at a venue, the machine having capability (i) to receive and transmit messages, (ii) accept input via a user interface, and (iii) display messages on an electronic display, the system comprising:
- a wireless communication system adapted to transmit and receive messages with the interactive device;
- at least one displayed message communicating information to audience members that allows audience members to respond to said at least one displayed message and to respond from one audience member to another with feedback entered through the user interface and transmitted by the interactive device;
- a central processing station or distributed processing stations for receiving the feedback and storing the received feedback as audience data;
- a central processor adapted to receive and process the audience data into results;
- wherein one or more of the audience members are physically located at a place that is outside of a direct, in-person view of the live entertainment event at the venue.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.