There should be plenty of prior art on this - we did multiple applications that fit this description at Ubisense well before 2007 (2003 onwards). I'll send it on to the Ubisense guys as they will no doubt have a strong interest in challenging this.
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Mike Liebhold <[email protected]> wrote: > Hmmm - this demands closer inspection. > > > "United States Patent Application 20090063293, entitled Dynamic > Presentation of Location-Specific Information, seeks to patent "improved > approaches to allow a portable electronic device to dynamically present > location-specific information while the portable electronic device is at a > predetermined location... In one embodiment, the portable electronic device > has a display that can display the location-specific information and has > wireless capabilities for use in receiving the location-specific information > from the server. The location-specific information can, for example, augment > other information that is to be presented on the display. In one embodiment, > the location-specific information can be information pertaining to a media > item being played in an establishment, such as a store, where the portable > electronic device is located." > > [ full patent text here: http://bit.ly/wYHme ] > > comments? > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > -- Peter Batty - President, Spatial Networking W: +1 303 339 0957 M: +1 720 346 3954 Blog: http://geothought.blogspot.com
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