Systems and Methods for Clothing Indicating Encoded Regional Association

Abstract

This disclosure relates to systems and methods for providing encoded geographic association via an article of clothing. The clothing provides for an encoded logo which allows a viewer of the clothing to immediately identify the geographic region if they are familiar with that geographic region while at least partially concealing the specific geographic region from them if they are not.

1 . An article of clothing, the clothing comprising:
 an article of clothing to be worn by a wearer;   a logo prominently displayed on said clothing for view by a viewer not wearing the clothing, the logo comprising: an encoded indicator of a geographic region, the indicator including at least two identifiers of said geographic region;   wherein, said indicator, in its entirety, serves to specifically and uniquely identify said geographic region;   wherein said indicator is readily associated with said geographic region even by a viewer who is not aware that said logo comprises said encoded indicator by said viewer recognizing all said at least two identifiers as associated with said geographical region; and   wherein a viewer not recognizing all of said at least two indicators is not able to specifically associate said identifier with said geographic region, even if said viewer is aware that said logo is said encoded indicator.   
     
     
         2 . The article of  claim 1  wherein said at least two identifiers comprise at least on alphabetic and at least one numeric indicator. 
     
     
         3 . The article of  claim 1  wherein at least one of said at least two identifiers is selected from the group consisting of: International Air transit Association (IATA) airport code and IATA city code. 
     
     
         4 . The article of  claim 1  wherein at least one of said at least two identifiers is a telephone area code. 
     
     
         5 . The article of  claim 1  wherein said geographic region is a city. 
     
     
         6 . The article of  claim 1  wherein said geographic region is an American state. 
     
     
         7 . The article of  claim 1  wherein said geographic region is a country. 
     
     
         8 . The article of  claim 1  wherein at least one of said at least two identifiers is selected form the group consisting of: a postal abbreviation and a postal code. 
     
     
         9 . The article of  claim 1  wherein said at least one of said at least two identifiers is a year. 
     
     
         10 . The article of  claim 1  wherein purchase of said clothing article provides a portion of the money used for said purchase to an institution in said geographic region. 
     
     
         11 . The article of  claim 1  wherein purchase of said clothing allows access to information about said region. 
     
     
         12 . The article of  claim 11  wherein said information is accessed via a computer-readable indicia provided with said article. 
     
     
         13 . The article of  claim 12  wherein said information is only accessible via said computer-readable indicia. 
     
     
         14 . The article of  claim 11  wherein said information is provided by prior purchasers of said clothing. 
     
     
         15 . A method for promoting a geographic region, the method comprising:
 selling an article of clothing to a first person wishing to promote said geographic region, said clothing comprising:
 a logo prominently displayed on said article for view by a viewer not wearing the clothing, the logo comprising: an encoded indicator of a geographic region, the indicator including at least two identifiers of said geographic region; 
 wherein, said indicator, in its entirety, serves to specifically and uniquely identify said geographic region; 
 wherein said indicator is readily associated with said geographic region even if said viewer who is not aware that said logo comprises said encoded indicator by said viewer recognizing all said at least two identifiers as associated with said geographical region; and 
 wherein when said viewer does not recognize all of said at least two indicators, said viewer is not able to specifically associate said identifier with said geographic region, even if said viewer is aware that said logo is said encoded indicator; 
   having at least a portion of proceeds of said sale go to an instruction in said geographic region;   allowing said first person to provide information about said geographical region;   allowing a second person to access said information via purchase of another said article.