Patent ID: 8363618

Claim:
A content management and distribution system, comprising: one or more computing processors; and computing memory communicatively coupled with the one or more computing processors, the computing memory having stored thereon computer executable instructions that cause the content management and distribution system to perform operations, comprising: selecting by the content management and distribution system based upon location of one or more display systems, physical limitations of the one or more display systems, and operating status of the one or more display systems, a set of selection criteria to be used in identifying information for display at the one or more display systems; receiving by the content management and distribution system data representative of one or more environment conditions that is collected by one or more environment condition sensing devices operatively cooperating with the one or more display systems, the environment conditions comprising one or more physical conditions comprising: a condition relating to commercial interaction with the one or more display systems comprising any of the length of time an object, person, or vehicle is positioned within a predetermined distance from the one or more display systems, the physical gestures of one or more persons that is positioned within a predetermined distance from the one or more display systems, the purchase of a product or service from a commercial facility that is predetermined distance from the one or more display systems, and the number of objects, vehicles, or persons passing by the one or more display systems, and a condition relating to the weather within a predetermined distance from the one or more display systems; applying by the content management and distribution system the selected set of selection criteria and the data representative of environment conditions in querying content data residing on the data store to select content for distribution; and communicating the selected content to one or more display systems.