Patent ID: 7633405

Claim:
A visual display system, comprising: a remote computer; a visual display device in communication with the remote computer via a network interface, with the network interface permitting network communication and power provision to the visual display device, the display device further including a plurality of high efficiency aluminum-indium-gallium-phosphide light emitting diodes (AlInGaP LEDs); a current driven power source providing power to the device; a remote messaging device in communication with the visual display device for communicating messages having a priority level that differs from messages sent from the remote computer to the display device; wherein the display device is adapted to: receive data necessary to generate an image from the remote computer or remote messaging device for display on the display device; store the received data; construct display frames based on the received data at a frame rate; and retrieve and write the display frames to the messaging device at a refresh rate, the refresh rate being different from the frame rate.