Selectively storing broadcast in mobile device

• US 20050096043A1
• 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:
  US10/980,135
• Publication Number:
  US 20050096043A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/422.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/106 Receiver-side switching
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/40 Arrangements for broadcast specially adapted for accumulation-type receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/57 for mobile receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/46 for recognising users' preferences
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/51 of receiving stations
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/74 using programme related information, e.g. title, composer or interpreter
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1859 adapted to provide push services, e.g. data channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/189 in combination with wireless systems selective distribution or broadcast in wireless communication networks H04W4/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/611 for multicast or broadcast systems for broadcast or conference H04L12/18; arrangements for broadcast or distribution combined with broadcast H04H20/00; arrangements for broadcast applications with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time H04H60/00; selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS], H04W4/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44209 Monitoring of downstream path of the transmission network originating from a server, e.g. bandwidth variations of a wireless network arrangements for maintenance or administration in data switching networks involving bandwidth and capacity management H04L41/0896
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4524 involving the geographical location of the client retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; systems specially adapted for using geographical information in broadcast systems H04H60/70; protocols in which the network application is adapted for the location of the user terminal in communication control or processing H04L67/52; services making use of the location of users or terminals in wireless networks H04W4/02; locating users or terminals in wireless networks H04W64/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• 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

Abstract

A method of receiving and storing within a mobile device certain broadcasts to the exclusion of other broadcasts includes the steps of: storing a preferences profile from a person using the mobile device, wherein the preferences profile represents the types of informational content with which the person using the mobile device desires to be presented; receiving a plurality of broadcasts, wherein each broadcast includes both informational content for presentation to a person and broadcast-identifying information; and for each respective broadcast that is received, screening the broadcast against the received preferences profile to determine whether the respective informational content of the respective broadcast is to be stored within the mobile device

Claims

1. An invention comprising a method of receiving and storing within a mobile device certain broadcasts to the exclusion of other broadcasts, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) storing a preferences profile from a person using the mobile device, the preferences profile representing the types of informational content with which the person using the mobile device desires to be presented;

(b) receiving a plurality of broadcasts, each broadcast comprising both,

(i) informational content for presentation to a person, and

(ii) broadcast-identifying information; and

(c) for each respective broadcast that is received, screening the broadcast against said received preferences profile to determine whether the respective informational content of the respective broadcast is to be stored within the mobile device.

2. The invention of claim 1, wherein the broadcast-identifying information comprises a broadcaster identification, the broadcaster identification representing the author of the informational content of a broadcast.

3. The invention of claim 2, wherein the preferences profile includes a broadcaster identification by which broadcasts are screened.

4. The invention of claim 2, wherein the broadcast includes a digital signature whereby the author of the informational content of a broadcast can be verified.

5. The invention of claim 1, wherein,

(a) the broadcasts are received in transmissions from transmitters, and

(b) each transmission containing a broadcast includes a transmitting party identification, the transmitting party identification representing the party of the transmitter by which the broadcast is transmitted in the transmission.

6. The invention of claim 5, wherein the preferences profile includes a transmitting party identification by which broadcasts are screened.

7. The invention of claim 6, wherein the transmission from the transmitting party includes a digital signature whereby the transmitting party can be verified.

8. The invention of claim 1, wherein the invention further comprises a computer-readable medium containing computer-executable instructions for performing the method.

9. The invention of claim 1, further comprising the step of,

(a) receiving a broadcast comprising both,

(i) informational content for presentation to a person, and

(ii) broadcast-identifying information indicating that the received broadcast is a governmental broadcast;

and

(b) automatically presenting the informational content of the governmental broadcast to the person using the mobile device.

10. The invention of claim 9, wherein the informational content of the governmental broadcast is not stored within the mobile device.

11. The invention of claim 9, wherein the informational content of the governmental broadcast is stored within the mobile device without screening the governmental broadcast against said received preferences profile.

12. The invention of claim 9, wherein the informational content of the governmental broadcast comprises information pertaining to a missing child.

13. The invention of claim 12, wherein the informational content comprises a picture of the missing child.

14. The invention of claim 9, wherein the informational content of the governmental broadcast comprises information pertaining to an advisory from the national weather service.

15. The invention of claim 9, wherein the informational content of the governmental broadcast comprises information pertaining to homeland security.

16. An invention comprising a method of receiving and storing within a mobile device certain broadcasts to the exclusion of other broadcasts, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) storing a preferences profile from a person using the mobile device, the preferences profile representing the types of informational content with which the person using the mobile device desires to be presented;

(b) receiving a plurality of broadcasts in transmissions from a plurality of transmitters, wherein

(i) each transmission contains a transmitting party identification, the transmitting party identification representing the party of the transmitter by which the broadcast is transmitted in the transmission, and

(ii) each broadcast comprises both,

(A) informational content for presentation to a person, and

(B) broadcast-identifying information, the broadcast-identifying information comprising a broadcaster identification, the broadcaster identification representing the author of the informational content of a broadcast; and

(c) for each respective broadcast that is received, screening broadcaster identifications and broadcast identifications against said received preferences profile to determine whether informational content of a respective broadcast is to be stored within the mobile device.

17. An invention comprising a method of receiving and storing within a mobile device certain broadcasts to the exclusion of other broadcasts, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) storing a preferences profile from a person using the mobile device, the preferences profile representing the types of informational content with which the person using the mobile device desires to be presented;

(b) receiving a plurality of broadcasts, each broadcast comprising both,

(i) informational content for presentation to a person, and

(ii) broadcast-identifying information, the broadcast-identifying information comprising a broadcaster identification, the broadcaster identification representing the author of the informational content of a broadcast;

(c) for each respective broadcast that is received for which the broadcast-identifying information indicates that the received broadcast is a governmental broadcast, automatically presenting the informational content of the governmental broadcast to the person using the mobile device; and

(d) for each respective broadcast that is received that is not a governmental broadcast, screening the broadcast against said received preferences profile to determine whether the respective informational content of the respective broadcast is to be stored within the mobile device.

18. The invention of claim 17, wherein the broadcaster identification indicates that the author of a broadcast is the Department of Homeland Security.

19. The invention of claim 17, wherein the broadcaster identification indicates that the author of a broadcast is a particular law enforcement agency.

20. The invention of claim 17, wherein the broadcaster identification indicates that the author of a broadcast is the National Weather Service.