Patent ID: 8386389

Claim:
A service delivery system, comprising: a set of portable physical tokens each comprising a respective token identifier; a network node comprising a database storing personal user profiles, wherein each of the user profiles is associated with a respective one of the token identifiers; multiple terminals distributed about a selected locale, each terminal having a reader and an associated controller, wherein in response to each presentation of any of the tokens each of the readers is operable to read the respective token identifier from the presented token and the associated controller is operable to transmit over a respective network connection the read token identifier along with associated context data specifying one or more environmental circumstances attendant the presentation of the respective token to the reader; and a service manager operable to connect to each of the terminals and the database, wherein in response to receipt of a transmission of a respective one of the token identifiers along with the associated context data from a respective one of the terminals, the service manager invokes one or more services that retrieve from one or more remote sources data selected based at least in part upon the associated context data received with the transmission and stores the retrieved data in association with the personal user profile associated with the token identifier received with the transmission.