Patent ID: 7463977

Claim:
A method of tour guiding, comprising the steps of: creating a tour at a first location, for a venue at a remote location; communicating the tour to a venue system at the venue at the remote location from the first location; providing a portable tour guide device for delivering multimedia output of the tour; connecting the portable tour guide device to the venue system at the remote location of the venue system; writing the tour to the portable tour guide device at the remote location where connected to the venue system; disconnecting the portable tour guide device from the venue system; moving the portable tour guide device within the venue as disconnected from the venue system; outputting multimedia of the tour by the portable tour guide device; identifying a geographical coordinate of a point of interest within the venue of the tour; correlating the geographical coordinate for the point of interest to certain of the tour; detecting a location of the portable tour guide device within the venue, corresponding to the geographical coordinate; outputting the certain of the tour by the portable tour guide device, automatically, upon the step of detecting; editing the tour at the first location, to obtain an edited tour; second connecting the portable tour guide device to the venue system at the remote location of the venue system; overwriting the tour of the portable tour guide device by the edited tour, at the remote location where connected to the venue system; second disconnecting the portable tour guide device from the venue system; second moving the portable tour guide device within the venue as disconnected from the venue system; and second outputting multimedia of the edited tour by the portable tour guide device.