Patent ID: 9119166
Filing Date: 2015-08-25
Classification: G06Q,H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A system for providing a local network based within a facility, wherein the system provides local information and access to a local interpersonal communication service, and wherein the system comprises: a host computing system; a facility-specific, machine readable tag including information identifying the facility; one or more participating mobile devices, each comprising a visual display, each adapted to contact the host computing system in response to reading the facility-specific, machine readable tag, and each adapted to transmit and receive data over a facility-hosted data transmission signal, wherein the data transmission signal enables transmission of electronic data between the host computing system wirelessly between the one or more participating mobile devices; an information and communications software program loaded within each of the one or more participating mobile devices, wherein the information and communications software program is adapted to provide the one or more participating mobile devices with local and facility information and access to the interpersonal communication service, wherein the information and communications software program enables the data transmission signal to uniquely identify the one or more participating mobile devices, wherein the information and communications software program enables the one or more participating mobile devices to transmit data over the data transmission signal, wherein the local interpersonal communication service enables the participating mobile devices identified by the information and communications software program to be visible to others of the participating mobile devices identified by the information and communications software program, and wherein messages can be sent and received among the participating mobile devices identified by the information and communications software program over the data transmission signal.