Patent ID: 6078928
Filing Date: 2000-06-20
Classification: G06F,G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
A system for providing information to a person or group of persons relating to items on display for viewing at one or more exhibit locations, the system comprising:a. a database of information coordinated with the exhibit locations and/or the items on display, the information being indexed to correspond to the exhibit locations using one or more exhibit indexes and/or to the items using one or more item indexes;b. one or more portable information storage devices, each device being assigned to a specified person or group of persons and having means for storing one or more exhibit indexes and/or item indexes;c. means for allowing each person or group of persons to select one or more of the exhibits and/or items as being of interest to that person or group of persons and for recording the corresponding one or more exhibit indexes and/or item indexes on the portable information storage device assigned to that person or group of persons, such selection and recording occurring contemporaneously with the person or group of persons viewing the items on display;d. means for retrieving the recorded exhibit indexes and/or item indexes from each of the portable information storage devices after the person or group of person has completed viewing the items on display;e. means for retrieving from the database the information corresponding to the exhibit indexes and/or item indexes retrieved from each portable information storage device; andf. means for communicating the retrieved database information to each person or group of persons who selected as being of interest the exhibits and/or items to which that information corresponds.