Patent ID: 7505966

Claim:
A computer-readable medium to direct a portable computing device to function in a specified manner, the computer-readable medium comprising: a first set of instructions to determine a history of sending acknowledgements to an information distributor responsive to receiving a beacon from the information distributor soliciting acknowledgments from portable computing devices; a second set of instructions to determine whether to send an acknowledgement to the information distributor responsive to the received beacon based on the history; a third set of instructions to send the acknowledgment to the information distributor responsive to a determination to send the acknowledgement; a fourth set of instructions to receive broadcast information from the information distributor, the broadcast information including a database, a logic portion, and formatting information and to store said database in the portable computing device, said logic portion for creating a search query of said database; a fifth set of instructions to receive a user input and to utilize said logic portion and said user input to create said search query; a sixth set of instructions to retrieve a search result from said database stored in the portable computing device based upon said search query; and a seventh set of instructions to direct the portable computing device to transform said search result in accordance with said formatting information to produce formatted content.