Mobile education and entertainment system, method and device

• US 20030229446A1
• Filed: 06/06/2002
• Published: 12/11/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tour Guide USA, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Tour Guide USA, Inc.
• Inventors: Housley, Michael J., Ly, Dien H., Boscamp, Robert L., Pasqualetti, Martin J.
• Application Number:
  US10/163,674
• Publication Number:
  US 20030229446A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/213
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0962 having an indicator mounted inside the vehicle, e.g. giving voice messages

Abstract

A new system, method, and device is provided for delivery of spatially relevant information. A method is provided for obtaining, preparing, and delivering media to mobile users. Various devices are combined for delivery of the spatially relevant information.

Claims

1. A method for delivering spatially relevant information to a user comprising the steps of:

obtaining spatially relevant information;

wherein at least some of the spatially relevant information is associated with a physical location comprising a point of interest that comprises at least one of a point, a route, and a region; and

wherein the spatially relevant information is obtained by at least one of authorities, syndication, and automated systems;

preparing the spatially relevant information for presentation, the preparing step further comprising the steps of;

editing the spatially relevant information to create a segment of information;

associating the segment of information with a physical location;

assigning a category to the segment of information; and

creating a professional grade segment of information from the segment of information;

providing the spatially relevant information to a user, the providing step further comprising the steps of;

selecting at least one point of interest to create a custom route, wherein each selected point of interest is associated with one of the segments of information, and wherein the segments of information associated with said selected points of interest of said custom route comprise a custom presentation;

storing the custom presentation; and

delivering the custom presentation via at least one of local retrieval/playback and streaming.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the custom presentation is delivered to the user in a point of presence mode.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the custom presentation is based on points of interest selected by the user.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein said providing step further comprises the step of arranging the segments of information in a sequence that follows the selected route.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the custom presentation is based on categories of interest selected by the user.

6. The method of claim 3 wherein the custom presentation is based on points of interest selected by the user along the quickest route between two points selected by the user.

7. The method of claim 2 wherein the delivering step is performed via playback through a CD player.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the CD player is GPS enabled for automatic cuing of the segments of information.

9. The method of claim 2 wherein the delivering step is performed via streaming through a wireless device.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the wireless device is GPS enabled for automatic cuing of the segments of information.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein the wireless device is a cell phone.

12. The method of claim 2 wherein the delivering step is performed through a GPS enabled PDA.

13. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of obtaining spatially relevant information further comprises using a web-crawler automated system.

14. A method for delivering spatially relevant information comprising the steps of:

obtaining spatially relevant information;

preparing the spatially relevant information for presentation, wherein the preparing step further comprises the step of editing the spatially relevant information to create a segment of information; and

providing the spatially relevant information to a user at a physical location associated with the spatially coordinated information, wherein the providing step includes the step of a user creating a custom route based on user entered preferences, and wherein the presentation of the spatially relevant information to the user comprises segments of information associated with the custom route.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein the custom route is configured for presentation of the segments of information in any order that the points of interest are encountered.

16. The method of claim 14 wherein the providing step further includes automatically stopping and starting the presentation such that presentation of the spatially relevant information substantially coincides with the user'"'"'s geographic location at points of interest associated with the spatially relevant information.

17. The method of claim 14 wherein the selecting step includes the step of selecting a desired length of presentation of the spatially relevant information.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein the presentation is stored on a CD with each segment stored in accordance with the order of the custom route.

19. The method of claim 14 wherein the user entered preferences comprise at least one of:

desired categories of information, identified points of interest, and the quickest route between two points.

20. The method of claim 14 wherein the step of storing the presentation includes storing the presentation on a memory stick for delivery on a PDA.

21. A device for delivering spatially relevant information to mobile users comprising:

a compact disk player;

wherein the compact disk player is configured to receive a compact disk containing the spatially relevant information, and wherein the spatially relevant information comprises a custom tour;

wherein the compact disk player is configured to be manually cued to start and stop a presentation of the spatially relevant information at predetermined points in the presentation; and

a speaker in communication with the compact disk player configured to deliver the presentation.

22. The device of claim 21 wherein the compact disk player is further configured to be automatically cued by a GPS system.

23. A mobile device for delivering spatially relevant information to a user comprising:

a media output component comprising at least one of a video screen, a speaker, and an LED screen;

a presentation source in communication with said media output component and configured to deliver a presentation, incorporating the spatially relevant information, to said media output component by at least one of streaming the presentation and retrieving the presentation from a storage medium;

a cuing component configured to receive a GPS signal indicating the physical location of the user and to automatically cue the presentation source to deliver the presentation when the user is at a physical location associated with the spatially relevant information.

24. The mobile device of claim 23 wherein the spatially relevant information comprises a custom tour, wherein the custom tour comprise segments of information selected by the user based on at least one of:

category preferences, route preferences, tour ratings, and presentation length preferences; and

wherein the segments of information are configured to be presented to the user as stand-alone segments for presentation in any order.

25. The mobile device of claim 23 wherein the media output device comprises at least one of a personal digital assistant, an FM radio, an XM radio, a CD player.

26. A device for delivering spatially relevant information to mobile users comprising:

a compact disk player, wherein the compact disk player is configured to receive a compact disk containing the spatially relevant information;

a global positioning system device configured to indicate a physical location of a user;

a computing device configured to receive the physical location of the user, and to automatically cue the compact disk player to play a segment of information, which is a part of the spatially relevant information, that is related to the physical location of the user; and

a speaker in communication with the compact disk player configured to deliver the spatially relevant information.