Patent ID: 9253264
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: G06Q,G07F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A content management and distribution system for use in beverage dispensing environments, comprising: at least one display system; environment condition sensing devices operatively cooperating with the at least one display system; at least one computing processor; and a computing memory communicatively coupled with the at least one computing processor, the computing memory having stored thereon computer executable instructions that cause the content management and distribution system to perform operations, comprising: selecting by the content management and distribution system, based upon at least one display system factor comprising at least one of (i) a location of the at least one display system, (ii) a physical size of the at least one display system, (iii) a physical orientation of the at least one display system and (iv) an operating status of the at least one display system, a set of selection criteria to be used in identifying information for display at the at least one display system; receiving by the content management and distribution system data representative of at least one environment condition that is collected by the one or more environment condition sensing devices operatively cooperating with the at least one display system, the environment conditions comprising physical environment conditions relating to dispensing a beverage, the at least one display system being operatively connected to a communications network providing at least one data service comprising one of voice service, television service and broadband connectivity service, and physical environment conditions occurring within a predetermined distance from the at least one display system comprising: a number of people, an occurrence of a commercial transaction, an occurrence of at least one physical gesture from at least one person, an utterance of spoken words, a movement of the at least one person, an interaction with at least one data element on the at least one display system, a shape of the at least one person, an amount of hair on the at least one person, a presence of facial hair on the at least one person, a height of the at least one person, a skin tone of the at least one person, a presence of makeup on the at least one person, a length of time the at least one person looks at the at least one display system, a number of beverages being dispensed, and a type of beverage being dispensed; applying by the content management and distribution system the selected set of selection criteria and the data representative of the at least one environment condition in querying content data residing on the data store to select content for distribution; and communicating the selected content to at least one display system.