Device to monitor the content and/or display of messages
AssigneeSTMicroelectronics S.r.l.
InventorPierre Brisson
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Abstract
The period for which advertisements are displayed on display screens is monitored by coupling the displaying time with the time of a telephone call from a public telephone booth near the display panel. Preferably, the call made from this booth is paid with a pre-payment memory card. This memory card also has a memorizing zone in which it is possible to record an advertisement which is precisely the advertisement to be displayed.
Claims37
A device to display advertisements, comprising a public telephone, a display panel connected to the public telephone, means to display for displaying a message on the display panel depending on the duration of a telephone communication, means so that the public telephone is accessible by an electronic pre-payment means, said pre-payment means comprising a memorizing zone, and said device comprising means to retrieve for retrieving an advertisement to be displayed in accordance with information contained in this said memorizing zone.
An apparatus for use with a memory-type user card having a memory zone for storing display matter and pre-payment units, said apparatus comprising:
- said memory-type user card being of the type in which the display matter does not change during use of the user card;
- a visual display;
- an interface for reading the user card to determine a number of pre-payment units used;
- a reader for reading display matter from the user card;
- means for displaying a message on said visual display in accordance with the display matter read from the memory zone of the user card;
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- wherein said interface enables the apparatus to display a message for a time period, said time period depending upon the number of pre-payment units used.
A device for displaying messages, comprising:
- a telephone adapted for use with a memory-type user card;
- said memory-type user card having a first storage zone for storing therein pre-payment units, and a second storage zone for storing therein information;
- a machine that is accessed when a telephone call is made via said telephone using said memory-type user card;
- said machine including means for reading said information stored in said second storage zone of the user card;
- a display panel associated with said machine;
- a sequencer a) for computing a period of time as a function of pre-payment units, b) for organizing a message in accordance with the information read from the user card, and c) for causing display of said message only in said period of time and only for the duration of use of the memory-type user card with said telephone;
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- means for displaying the message.
A device to display advertisements, comprising a public telephone, a display panel connected to the public telephone, means for displaying a message on the display panel, means for receiving an electronic pre-payment means, said pre-payment means comprising a memorizing zone, means for retrieving an advertisement to be displayed in accordance with information contained in the memorizing zone and means for sequencing displays relating to different advertisements during different telephone calls.
An apparatus for use with a memory-type user card having a memory zone for storing advertising matter and pre-payment units, said apparatus comprising:
- a visual display;
- an interface for reading the user card and decrementing a number of pre-payment units therefrom;
- a reader for reading advertising matter from the user card;
- means for displaying an advertisement on said visual display in accordance with the advertising matter read from the memory zone of the user card;
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- wherein said interface enables the apparatus to display the advertisement as a function of the number of pre-payment units decremented from the user card.
A device for displaying advertisements, comprising:
- a public telephone;
- a machine connected to the public telephone that is accessible for use with a memory-type user card which has a memory zone therein for storing information including a key, said machine comprising means for reading said information stored in said memory zone of the user card and a memory unit for storing at least one full text advertisement therein which is cross-referenced to the key in the memory zone;
- a display panel associated with said machine;
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- means for displaying an advertisement on said display panel in accordance with the information read from the user card wherein after cross referencing the user card memory zone key to the full text advertisement in the memory unit, the cross referenced full text advertisement is read from said memory unit and is displayed on the display panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.