Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Restaurant or bar
Patent
1997-03-17
2000-03-14
MacDonald, Allen R.
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Restaurant or bar
705 27, 345328, G06F 1760
Patent
active
060385456
ABSTRACT:
Digital multimedia presentations are assembled at a central location for stores. Start and end times are assigned. The digital multimedia presentations and the assigned start and end times are transmitted to and received at the stores. The received presentations are stored in digital multimedia players at the stores. Upon occurrence of an assigned start time, the associated digital multimedia presentation is automatically played in the store until the assigned end time. If a presentation is not available at a particular time, a generic default presentation is played. The presentations may be played at assigned start and end times until an expiration date, after which it is automatically deleted from the digital multimedia player. The digital multimedia presentations may be customized at the central location and/or at the stores. The present invention is particularly applicable for generating menu boards for an enterprise which includes multiple sites.
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Almagro Manolo B.
Mandeberg Richard D.
Meyer Joseph F.
Moleski Desmond C. J.
Frankel & Company
Kazimi Hani M.
MacDonald Allen R.
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