Patent ID: 7826966

Claim:
A system for providing a tour of a venue, comprising: central computer for creating the tour, the central computer remotely located from the venue; venue server computer, communicatively connected to the central computer, for storing the tour; editor connected to the central computer, for programming, editing and selectively modifying the tour, the central computer communicatively connected to the venue server computer to deliver the tour as modified to the venue server computer; and portable device remotely located from the central computer, communicatively connected to the venue server computer, for obtaining the tour from the venue server computer, the portable device comprising: storage for retaining the tour by the portable device, once obtained from the venue server computer; user interface for delivering multimedia output of the tour; and device processor connected to the storage and the user interface, for controlling the portable device to deliver the tour at the portable device; wherein the portable device is communicatively disconnected from the venue server computer upon obtaining the tour in the storage of the portable device; wherein the venue server computer, if the tour then-stored by the venue server computer differs from the tour then-retained in storage of the portable device, delivers the tour then-stored by the venue server computer to the portable device on communicative connection of the portable device to the venue server computer; wherein the portable device when communicatively disconnected from the venue server computer, selectively plays the tour obtained from the venue server computer as multimedia output on the portable device.