Patent ID: 7584269

Claim:
A method for providing kiosk service offerings comprising: retrofitting an existing, publicly-located, and fixed positioned kiosk with a host computing device for selectively retrieving electronic services from remote servers over an existing physical communications link to an existing communications network and a short-range frequency communications system for delivering selected electronic services over a short-range frequency communications link to wireless devices in a personal area network PAN, wherein the electronic services include data and applications; maintaining a list of available electronic services provided by the kiosk, wherein a portion of the available electronic services are stored locally within the kiosk and wherein a different portion of the available electronic services are retrievable by the kiosk from the remote servers of the existing communications network via the existing physical communications link; establishing a short-range frequency wireless communications link with a wireless device in said PAN; in response to a subscriber query received from the wireless device, generating a subscriber-specific list of available electronic services by selecting among the list of all available electronic services, wherein the selection is based upon at least one of a subscriber prioritization, a predetermined value assigned to the subscriber, advertising revenues associated with each available service, and communication resources of the wireless device; conveying the subscriber-specific list to the wireless device for presentment to the subscriber; receiving at the kiosk a request for at least one of the available electronic services included in the subscriber-specific list, the request being received from the wireless device; determining whether the requested electronic services wholly reside in the kiosk and whether components of the requested electronic services reside in the kiosk; if it is determined that the requested electronic services wholly reside in the kiosk, delivering the requested electronic services to the wireless device in the PAN without retrieving the requested electronic services over the existing physical communications link; if it is determined that certain components of the requested electronic services reside in the kiosk, delivering the certain components to the wireless device while retrieving remaining components of requested electronic services over the existing physical communications link; and if it is determined that none of the requested electronic services resides in the kiosk, retrieving the requested electronic services over the existing physical communications link and delivering the retrieved electronic services to the wireless device in the PAN.