Patent ID: 6119098
Filing Date: 2000-09-12
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
An advertisement display apparatus for displaying, to a user of the advertisement display apparatus, selectively distributed advertisements transmitted over a distributed network, the advertisement display apparatus comprising:a memory that stores at least one of the selectively distributed advertisements;a processor that visibly displays one of the at least one stored selectively distributed advertisement on a display, the display driven by the processor;a low level determination circuit that determines if a number of selectively distributed advertisements to be displayed remaining in the memory has reached a predetermined low level; anda communication device connectable to an advertisement distribution system over the distributed network if the low level determination circuit has determined that the number of selectively distributed advertisements to be displayed remaining in the memory has reached the predetermined low level, wherein the selectively distributed advertisements are identified by the advertisement distribution system based on a profile of the user supplied to the advertisement distribution system.