Wes Boudville

Inventor. Have 6 US patents and 9 patents pending on mobile phones. The business areas are 1. shop windows, 2. electronic billboards, 3. movie theatres, 4. social mobile games.

The base patent is fundamental. Suppose you are a pedestrian in front of a shop window. Inside the window is an electronic screen. It shows something for sale and a barcode. You scan the barcode with your phone. A webpage appears on your phone. It has a search box. Suppose you type 'hat' and hit return. The returns do NOT appear on the phone browser. But on the much larger shop screen. More immersive. Maybe lifesize, depending on what you are looking for.

This gets around the limitation shop windows have had since they were invented - in Elizabethan England. The window is too small to show all the inventory. Now, the pedestrian decides what she wants to see in the window.

Another patent was awarded in a field where nothing had changed in a century. You are in a theatre, in the room where the movie will be shown. Since 1913, the theatre has been showing trailers. A trailer is an ad for another movie. Suppose you like a trailer. At the point of maximum persuasion or mindshare, you cannot buy a ticket to that movie. There is NO impulse buy. The theatre cannot close the deal. My solution uses the left and right walls, which are empty in every theatre. They never found a use for that real estate. I put an electronic screen. At the simplest level, it shows a barcode. You scan it, sitting down. You get a page on your phone from this theatre chain, where you can buy a ticket to a trailer movie. One ticket is one future use. You don't have to commit to a specific date.

An enhancement is where the screen on the side wall shows a table of trailers. Each line is a trailer, and shows the number of tickets bought. If this reaches a fixed value, the price per ticket falls for all who bought. Group or volume discount. To amplify sales.