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US 8,543,455 B2Granted
System and method of providing content to users
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsNiranjan Damera-Venkata, David Joel Wu
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Abstract
A system for providing content to consumers includes a public display; a database configured to store the content; and a central processing element configured to concurrently receive parallel user input from a plurality of users and present content from the database on the public display relevant to each user's input.
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A system for providing content to consumers, comprising:
- a public display;
- a database configured to store said content;
- and
- a central processing element configured to concurrently receive parallel user queries from a plurality of users and concurrently present content from said database on said public display relevant to each user's query.
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A method of providing content to consumers, said method comprising:
- providing a public display electronically controlled by at least one central processing element;
- receiving parallel user queries concurrently in said at least one central processing element from a plurality of users of said public display;
- and
- concurrently presenting consumer content related to each of said queries from a database with said central processing element on said public display.
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A method of advertising goods or services to consumers, said method comprising:
- selling an advertiser rights to display an advertisement on a public display controlled by at least one central processing element in response to user queries meeting specific criteria;
- receiving parallel user queries in said central processing element from a plurality of users at said public display and comparing said user queries to said criteria;
- and
- for each said user query that meets said criteria, concurrently displaying said advertisement on said public display.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.