Advertising system, advertising method and external network-compatible device

• Main Author: MATSUMURA, AKIFUMI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 02.10.2013
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; PHYSICS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

An advertising system (100) includes a server (20) that is provided on an external network and that stores advertising information, an external network-compatible device (10) capable of acquiring the advertising information from the server (20) via the external network, and an external network-incompatible device (40) that is not capable of acquiring the advertising information from the server (20) via the external network. The external network-compatible device (10) is configured to acquire, from among the advertising information stored in the server (20), certain advertising information that corresponds to the external network-incompatible device (40), and send it to the external network-incompatible device (40). The advertising information contains deadline information, and the external network-compatible device (10) is further configured to delete from the storage unit (2) certain advertising information, from among the advertising information stored in the storage unit (2), whose deadline has passed.