Selectively presenting preferred broadcasts using mobile device

• US 20050096036A1
• Filed: 11/01/2004
• Published: 05/05/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Drive-By Wifi, LLC
• Original Assignee: Drive-By Wifi, LLC
• Inventors: Tillman, Chad D., Haberman, William E., MacDonald, Brian D., Ivsan, John V.
• Application Number:
  US10/979,647
• Publication Number:
  US 20050096036A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/422.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/00 Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/005 Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals

Abstract

A method for presenting informational content to a person using a mobile device that is within transmission range of the wireless transmitters includes the steps of: receiving with the mobile device a plurality of transmissions from the wireless transmitters, wherein each transmission includes a broadcast including informational content for presentation to a person using the mobile device; determining proximity of the wireless transmitter of each transmission that is received; scanning, for preselected types of informational content, each respective broadcast of the received transmissions that are transmitted from a transmitter determined to be within a predefined proximity to the mobile device at the time of reception; and presenting to a person using the mobile device a list representative of the informational content of those broadcasts found in scanning to match the preselected types of informational content.

Claims

1. In a system in which broadcasts are transmitted in transmissions from wireless transmitters, an invention comprising a method for presenting informational content to a person using a mobile device that is within transmission range of the wireless transmitters, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) receiving with the mobile device a plurality of transmissions from the wireless transmitters, each transmission including a broadcast comprising informational content for presentation to a person using the mobile device;

(b) scanning, for preselected types of informational content, each respective broadcast of said received transmissions that are transmitted from a transmitter; and

(c) presenting to a person using the mobile device a list representative of the informational content of those broadcasts found in said scanning step to match the preselected types of informational content.

2. In a system in which broadcasts are transmitted in transmissions from wireless transmitters, an invention comprising a method for presenting informational content to a person using a mobile device that is within transmission range of the wireless transmitters, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) receiving with the mobile device a plurality of transmissions from the wireless transmitters, each transmission including a broadcast comprising informational content for presentation to a person using the mobile device;

(b) determining proximity of the wireless transmitter of each transmission that is received;

(c) scanning, for preselected types of informational content, each respective broadcast of said received transmissions that are transmitted from a transmitter determined to be within a predefined proximity to the mobile device at the time of reception; and

(d) presenting to a person using the mobile device a list representative of the informational content of those broadcasts found in said scanning step to match the preselected types of informational content.

3. The invention of claim 2, wherein the preselected types of informational content are selected by a person using the mobile device.

4. The invention of claim 2, wherein a preselected type of informational content comprises informational content for a specified service.

5. The invention of claim 2, wherein a preselected type of informational content comprises informational content for a specified good.

6. The invention of claim 2, wherein a preselected type of informational content comprises informational content for a specified company.

7. The invention of claim 2, wherein a preselected type of informational content comprises informational content authored by a specified company.

8. The invention of claim 2, wherein a preselected type of informational content comprises a song by a specified artist.

9. The invention of claim 2, wherein a preselected type of informational content comprises statistics for a sporting event.

10. The invention of claim 8, wherein the mobile device is at the sporting event.

11. The invention of claim 2, wherein the method further comprises receiving input from a person using the mobile device representative of a selection of an item on said presented list and, in response thereto, presenting the informational content of the broadcast represented by the selection.

12. The invention of claim 2, wherein the invention further comprises a computer-readable medium containing computer-executable instructions for performing the method.