Patent ID: 8199733

Claim:
A system comprising: a wireless access point operable to communicate with a portable computing device in a wireless fashion, wherein the wireless access point is further operable to transmit one or more advertisements of goods or services, wherein the one or more advertisements includes an identification of a location relative to the wireless access point of a provider of the advertised goods or services, wherein the one or more advertisements is transmitted to the portable computing device, and wherein the one or more advertisements is dependent upon a known location of the wireless access point; and a network, wherein one or more information providers are coupled to the network, and the network is operable to transmit the known location of the wireless access point to a first information provider of the one or more information providers, and wherein the network is operable to transmit the one or more advertisements to the wireless access point for wireless transmission to the portable computing device, wherein the one or more advertisements has been selected by the first information provider based on the known location of the wireless access point and known preferences of a user of the portable computing device stored at the first information provider.