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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2006
Filed:
May. 03, 2000
Cary Lee Bates, Rochester, MN (US);
Eric John Nelson, Rochester, MN (US);
John Matthew Santosuosso, Rochester, MN (US);
Cary Lee Bates, Rochester, MN (US);
Eric John Nelson, Rochester, MN (US);
John Matthew Santosuosso, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus, program product, and method selectively display or render display information from display information packets provided in a digital radio broadcast or via another form of packet-based communication medium based upon local information associated with the display, and typically irrespective of whether any of such packets are specifically addressed to any local receiver associated with a display. The local information used in the selective display of display information may be a physical location of a user, whereby a location sensor is utilized to determine a current location that is compared to a location criterion provided in a data packet to determine whether the current location matches the location criterion. In addition to, or in lieu of location information, the local information may include local configuration data that identifies certain information types (e.g., categories of display information such as advertisements, traffic information, weather information, news information, sports information, etc.) that are enabled for display on a particular display.