Patent ID: 8464155
Filing Date: 2013-06-11
Classification: G06F,G09G

Abstract:
1. A method for use by a system having a server in communication with a computer for facilitating delivery of content to a plurality of display devices, said method comprising: presenting by said computer to a user, using a content manager application having a graphical user interface (“GUI”), a floor plan having a plurality of groups of display devices, said floor plan including markers indicative of locations of each of said plurality of groups and each of said plurality of display devices in each of said plurality of groups; receiving a selection of said content and a first group of display devices by said user using said GUI to select said first group of display devices of said plurality of display devices; corresponding, using the GUI, said selection of said first group of display devices by said user from said floor plan to a first source file in said server associated with said first group of display devices, wherein said server includes a plurality of source files each associated with a different one of said plurality of groups of display devices; transmitting said selected content by said computer to said first source storage file associated with said first group of display devices; storing, by said server, said content in said first source storage file associated with said first group of display devices; providing, by said server, said content to a group of synchronization storage files associated with said first source storage file, wherein each of said plurality of display devices in said first group of display devices is associated with a respective synchronization storage file in said group of synchronization storage files; transmitting, by said server, said content from each of said group of synchronization storage files to each respective one of said plurality of display devices in said first group of display devices; and receive a command, by said server, from said computer to prompt said first group of display devices to check each of said group of synchronization storage files, respectively, to determine if said content is added, and if so, obtain said content from each of said group of synchronization storage files, respectively.