Patent ID: 7395960

Claim:
A system for providing memorial information about a deceased party interred at a cemetery location, said system comprising: (A) a memory device affixed to a physical object positioned at the cemetery location, the memory device being accessible to any public user, the memory device including a programmable random access memory suitable for storing the memorial information on the memory device; (B) a portable device holdable by one of the public users, separate from the memory device, that retrieves the memorial information directly from the memory device via a non-permanent proximity link when positioned at the cemetery location, and that communicates the memorial information to at least one of the public users located at the cemetery location; wherein the portable device is capable of loading data corresponding to the memorial information, and wherein the data corresponding to the memorial information is stored internally within the programmable random access memory of the memory device, and wherein the memory device is free from physical connection to a source of the data at least while the memory device is positioned at the cemetery location, and wherein the memory device is powered via a data line at least while the memory device is positioned at the cemetery location and actively connected to the portable device via the non-permanent proximity link; and wherein said communication of the memorial information to at least one of the public users located at the cemetery location sequentially follows and is substantially temporally commensurate with said retrieval of the memorial information directly from the memory device.