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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 1999
Filed:
Jan. 20, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Michael J DiFranza, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Assignee:
Captivate Network, Inc., Acton, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B66B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
187396 ; 187247 ;
Abstract
The invention relates to features a system which distributes 'real-time' information along with digital advertising to elevator display units mounted in elevators. The system includes an elevator display unit having a display monitor for displaying general and commercial information to passengers within the elevator, and a local server which, receives scheduling information from a remote production server over a data communication path and, in accordance with the scheduling information, retrieves and formats the general and commercial information for display at the elevator display unit.