Patent ID: 8182340

Claim:
A method for receiving temporary information on a personal game playing device, comprising: receiving dynamically a temporary application on a personal game playing device with one or more processors from a network device with one or more processors via a communications connection to a communications network, wherein the temporary application is used only for receiving temporary information during an event at a desired event location; receiving periodically temporary information with a disabling mechanism on the temporary application on the personal game playing device from the network device and the communications connection at the desired event location in association with sub-events occurring during the event, wherein the received temporary information includes a pre-determined set of conditions associated with the event, wherein the disabling mechanism allows access to the received temporary information on the personal game playing device to be disabled when one or more of conditions from the pre-determined set of conditions are met and wherein the disabling mechanism includes an encryption/decryption mechanism, location awareness, temporal awareness, event awareness and sub-event awareness mechanisms; displaying the received temporary information on the temporary application for the sub-events on a display portion of the personal game playing device at the desired event location for a pre-determined amount of time; continuously overwriting with the temporary application received temporary information as it is viewed on the display portion of the personal game playing device thereby making the received temporary information unavailable; receiving periodically new temporary information on the temporary application on the personal game playing device from the network device and the communications connection in association with new sub-events occurring during the event; overwriting on the temporary application on the personal game playing device previously received temporary information with the new temporary information, thereby making the previously received temporary information unavailable; and disabling automatically on the temporary application access to the temporary information with the disabling mechanism from the temporary information when one or more of conditions from the pre-determined set of conditions are met, wherein disabling access to the temporary information includes encrypting the temporary information on the personal game playing device or deleting the temporary information from the personal game playing device with the temporary application.