Patent ID: 8660959

Claim:
A content management and distribution system, comprising: one or more computing processors; and a 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 one or more display system factors comprising any of the location of one or more display systems, physical size of the one or more display systems, physical orientation of the one or more display systems, and the 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 to the one or more display systems, the environment conditions comprising one or more physical environment conditions at a building within a predetermined distance from the one or more display systems, the one or more display systems being operatively connected to a communications network providing one or more data services comprising voice service, television service, and broadband connectivity service, the physical environment conditions at a building occurring within a predetermined distance from the one or more display systems comprising: the number of people, the occurrence of a commercial transaction, the occurrence of a one or more physical gestures from one or more persons, the utterance of spoken words, the motion of one or more animals, the movement of one or more people, the interaction with one or more data elements on the one more display systems, the shape of one or more persons, the amount of hair on one or more persons, the presence of facial hair on one or more persons, height of one or more persons, the skin tone of one or more persons, the presence of makeup on one or more persons, and the length of time a person is looking at the one or more display systems, and the length of time a person is looking at 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 the one or more 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.