System and method of providing digital media management in a quick service restaurant environment

摘要

Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to systems and methods for managing digital media content within a quick service restaurant environment to provide a consistent visual experience and accurate, timely data across various digital media displays to QSR customers. In some embodiments, a digital media management appliance (“DMMA”) is used to manage the distribution of digital media data which is used to drive various display devices present in the QSR environment. The DMMA may be configured to extract data from a point of sale (“POS”) system and/or other data sources within the QSR environment in order to generate display data for the digital media devices in the store.

主权项

1. A system for managing digital display content in a plurality of quick service restaurant (QSR) environments, comprising:
a digital media delivery module configured to execute computer instructions on a processor which generates digital media data for a plurality of digital media devices in the QSR environments, the plurality of digital media devices including at least one digital menu display device; a computer memory in each QSR environment configured to store the digital media data; a point of sale interface configured to communicate with a point of sale system in each of the QSR environments; a menu building module remote from the QSR environments and configured to:
receive a selection of menu items from menu data to include in a product menu;receive a selection of promotional items from promotional data;receive a definition of rules for displaying the promotional items;assemble the selection of menu items, the selection of promotional items, and the definition of rules into a digital media package; andtransmit the same digital media package to the QSR environments for storage in the respective computer memory of each QSR environment; a synchronization module configured to:
monitor point of sale data stored in the point of sale system and update the digital media data based upon a change to the point of sale data;access the digital media package from the computer memory and modify the point of sale data to reflect the digital media package; and a translation module configured to receive the digital media data from the memory and translate the digital media data into a format readable by the point of sale system, wherein a structure of the digital media data as stored in the memory is incompatible with the point of sale data stored in the point of sale system, wherein the synchronization module is further configured to maintain consistency between the digital media data and the point of sale data.