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Abstract

A business method for billboard advertising discloses auctioning display-time on billboards capable of dynamic-content display. The method provides the auctioning of display-time on at least one content-display unit. An auction may be based on a time period, a type identifier, group, content-display unit location, a hierarchy, or other desirable segmentation. An advertising billboard device for use with the present invention comprises a display controller adapted to receive, store, and display dynamic-content from the server. At least one content-display unit is in communication with the display controller, wherein the content-display unit visually displays the information from the dynamic-content. The advertising billboard display controller may also comprise a timing means, the display controller altering the visual display of the content-display unit as a function of a signal from the timing means. The display controller may be adapted to receive, store, and display dynamic-content from one or a plurality of servers, wherein the display controller comprises a hierarchical control scheme, the hierarchical control scheme adapted to select dynamic-content from one server of the plurality of servers for display on the content-display unit. The advertising billboard device may also comprise a plurality of display controllers in communication with a plurality of content-display unit devices, each display controller from the plurality of display controllers having a type identifier, wherein each of the display controllers selects dynamic-content for display on its content-display unit as a function of the type identifier.

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