Patent ID: 7100191

Claim:
A system comprising: a plurality of in-store kiosks, near points of purchases in stores located across different geographic locations, each including, a wireless network interface coupled to a network, a multimedia drive having inside physically replaceable multimedia having stored thereon full motion video content, a storage memory, coupled to the wireless network interface, having stored therein remotely changeable data content that includes markup language content received over the network containing at least questions to collect personal information from users, an overlay unit coupled to the storage memory and the multimedia drive to overlay the remotely changeable data content onto the full motion video content to form a combined content in a single window, an active screen to display the combined content, a keyboard to input data, a plurality of buttons on both sides of the active screen to receive various user inputs, and a processor coupled to the buttons, the keyboard, and the storage memory; and a central server coupled to the plurality of in-store kiosks via the network to periodically receive data uploaded from each of the plurality of in-store kiosks, the central server including, a local directory structure, storing different data content for transmission to different ones of the plurality of in-store kiosks; and a database to store the data uploaded from the plurality of in-store kiosks.