SMART MEDIA GUIDES, BEACON-BASED SYSTEMS AND FORMATTED DATA COLLECTION DEVICES

摘要

The SMART MEDIA GUIDE (“SMG”) implements a compact and portable digital media guide interfaced with smart interfaces. The SMG may include facilities for storing and reproducing digital content with or without any recording capability. The digital content stored in the SMG memory may or may not be changeable but access to the stored content may be selectively enabled or disabled based on external verification via one or more smart interfaces. In beacon-based systems, remote units may be triggered to initiate various functionalities based on satisfaction of a beacon's signal signal strength criterion.

主权项

1. A portable media guide, comprising:
a microprocessor; a memory coupled to the microprocessor, the memory configured to store preloaded content; a transceiver interface configured to:
transmit an identifying information, andreceive in response to the transmitted information an activation signal; and a switching interface coupled to the transceiver interface and the memory, the switching interface configured to:
receive the activation signal, andgenerate a control signal in accordance with the received activation signal,wherein the generated control signal selectively enables access to the preloaded content stored in the memory.