Active requesting of information for pseudo-live performance

• US 10,187,438 B2
• Filed: 04/09/2015
• Issued: 01/22/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: AT&T Corporation (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Crandall, Evan Stephen
• Primary Examiner(s): Shingles, Kristie D
• Application Number:
  US14/682,433
• Publication Number:
  US 20150229687A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,384 Days
• Field of Search: 709219, 709240
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/40 Arrangements for broadcast specially adapted for accumulation-type receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/13 Arrangements for device control affected by the broadcast information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/80 characterised by transmission among terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/60 Network streaming of media packets
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/75 Media network packet handling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/764 at the destination reformatting of additional data in video clients H04N21/4355
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/60 Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and optimisation of the required network resources admission control or resource allocation H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/62 Establishing a time schedule for servicing the requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4331 Caching operations, e.g. of an advertisement for later insertion during playback
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4333 Processing operations in response to a pause request
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4363 Adapting the video stream to a specific local network, e.g. a Bluetooth® network
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4402 involving reformatting operations of video signals for household redistribution, storage or real-time display details of conversion of video standards at pixel level H04N7/01; video transcoding H04N19/40; adapting incoming signals to the display format of the display terminal G09G5/005; media handling at the source in data packet switching networks H04L65/764
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/165 Centralised control of user terminal subsequent to an upstream request signal H04N7/17345; Registering at central by two-way working H04N7/17309
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17327 with deferred transmission or handling of upstream communications

Abstract

Mass amounts of information, such as entire libraries of songs or movies, for example, may be stored locally near end-users, and this information may be accessed and reproduced in response to commands received from a transmitting station via a network. When a radio or television station desires to transmit a song or movie, for example, the radio or television station can, rather than transmitting the entire song or movie, merely transmit a command for reproducing the song or movie. An end-user'"'"'s performance reproduction device, such as an enhanced radio or a television set, then accesses and reproduces the locally stored song or movie. Since the radio or television station need not transmit the entire performance, network traffic can be significantly reduced. The performance reproduction device may actively request information from the radio or television station when fresh or additional information is needed.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

determining a present location of a mobile device of a user based on a positioning system;

determining a local station matching a user preference using a local station master table and the present location;

generating, via a processor, a request based on the user preference;

communicating the request to the local station;

receiving a local media portion from the local station in response to the request;

identifying a segment of stored media on the mobile device of the user which is replaceable by the local media portion, wherein the stored media is received from a home station located in a home location different than the present location and later stored in the mobile device to yield the stored media;

generating a modified media based on a mixture of the local media portion and the stored media and by replacing the segment of stored media on the mobile device with the local media portion, the modified media comprising at least one of an audio or a video based representation of a text-based portion of the local media portion; and

presenting the modified media on the mobile device of the user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is a multi-media device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining of the local station occurs in a network server.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the local media portion comprises one of a local weather report, a traffic report, and a local news.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the segment of stored media is a commercial;

and

wherein the method further comprises identifying a type of the commercial based on the user preference.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the type of commercial is for a specific type of product.

7. A mobile system comprising:

a processor; and

a computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored which, when executed by the processor, result in the processor performing operations comprising;

determining a present location of the mobile system based on a positioning system;

determining a local station matching a user preference using a local station master table and the present location;

generating a request based on the user preference;

communicating the request to the local station;

receiving a local media portion from the local station in response to the request;

identifying a segment of stored media on the mobile device of the user which is replaceable by the local media portion, wherein the stored media is received from a home station located in a home location different than the present location and later stored in the mobile device to yield the stored media;

generating a modified media based on a mixture of the local media portion and the stored media and by replacing the segment of stored media on the mobile system with the local media portion, the modified media comprising at least one of an audio or a video based representation of a text-based portion of the local media portion; and

presenting the modified media on the mobile system.

8. The mobile system of claim 7, wherein the mobile system is a multi-media device.

9. The mobile system of claim 7, wherein the determining of the local station occurs in a network server.

10. The mobile system of claim 7, wherein the local media portion comprises one of a local weather report, a traffic report, and a local news.

11. The mobile system of claim 7, wherein the segment of stored media is a commercial;

and

wherein the computer-readable storage medium has additional instructions stored which, when executed by the processor, result in operations comprising identifying a type of the commercial based on the user preference.

12. The mobile system of claim 11, wherein the type of commercial is for a specific type of product.

13. A computer-readable storage device having instructions stored which, when executed by a mobile computing device, result in the mobile computing device performing operations comprising:

determining a present location of the mobile computing device based on a positioning system;

determining a local station matching a user preference using a local station master table and the present location;

generating a request based on the user preference;

communicating the request to the local station;

receiving a local media portion from the local station in response to the request;

identifying a segment of stored media on the mobile device of the user which is replaceable by the local media portion, wherein the stored media is received from a home station located in a home location different than the present location and later stored in the mobile device to yield the stored media;

generating a modified media based on a mixture of the local media portion and the stored media and by replacing the segment of stored media on the mobile device with the local media portion, the modified media comprising at least one of an audio or a video based representation of a text-based portion of the local media portion; and

presenting the modified media on the mobile computing device.

14. The computer-readable storage device of claim 13, wherein the mobile computing device is a multi-media device.

15. The computer-readable storage device of claim 13, wherein the determining of the local station occurs in a network server.

16. The computer-readable storage device of claim 13, wherein the local media portion comprises one of a local weather report, a traffic report, and a local news.

17. The computer-readable storage device of claim 13, wherein the segment of stored media is a commercial;

and

wherein the computer-readable storage device has additional instructions stored which, when executed by the mobile computing device, result in operations comprising identifying a type of the commercial based on the user preference.