Patent ID: 8554862
Filing Date: 2013-10-08
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A low-cost display bank that displays travel-related information in a public travel-related area, comprising: one or more slave low-cost display units that display travel-related information; and a master low-cost display unit that displays travel-related information, comprising: wherein the travel-related information includes at least one of arrival information, departure information, subway schedules, terminal maps, station maps, location maps, advertisements, paging information, emergency information, current time and date information, and weather information information, and the display bank control unit of the a master low-cost display unit further determines that new travel-related information is available from the display bank data management unit, receives the new travel-related information from the display bank data management unit, updates a determination of what elements of the new travel-related information to send to different ones of the one or more slave low-cost display units based on the display parameters, and displays the new travel-related information on the master low-cost display unit and the determined elements of the new travel-related information on the one or more slave low-cost display units based on the received display parameters.