Interactive messaging apparatus and method

摘要

Disclosed embodiments include apparatus, method and storage medium associated with interactive messaging. In embodiments, an apparatus may include an interactive message service to selectively display messages of a collection of messages, in response to navigation controls received from a proximally located portable client device, through a navigation interface provided to the proximally located portable client device by the interactive message service. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

主权项

1. An apparatus, comprising:
a display unit to display messages; a computing device coupled to the display unit, including a communication unit; and an interactive message service to be operated by the computing device to selectively display messages of a collection of messages, in response to navigation controls received from a proximally located portable client device, through the communication unit; wherein the interactive message service includes
a user interface service to provide the client device with a navigation interface to provide the navigation controls to interact with messages of the collection displayed on the display unit; anda message rendering service to select and render on the display unit, messages of the collection, in response to the navigation controls provided through the navigation interface provided to the proximally located portable client device;wherein the user interface service is to further collect information from the proximally located portable client device to determine whether the proximally located portable client device is associated with a known user of a sponsor of the collection of messages;wherein the message rendering service to select and render on the display unit, messages of the collection, further based on information about the known user known to the sponsor; andwherein the interactive message service further includes a communication service to broadcast invitation messages to invite proximally located portable client devices to interact with displayed messages; establish a connection with a proximally located portable client device, when the proximally located portable client device respond to the invitation messages, and seek consent of connected client device(s), when there are connected client devices, before establishment of a connection with a responding proximally located portable client device.