Storing and presenting broadcast in mobile device

• US 20050096047A1
• 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:
  US10/980,129
• Publication Number:
  US 20050096047A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/432.3
• 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 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]

Abstract

A method for presenting informational content stored in a mobile device includes the steps of: receiving a plurality of broadcasts, wherein each broadcast includes both informational content for presentation to a person and broadcast-identifying information; for each respective broadcast of the plurality, storing the informational content of the respective broadcast within the mobile device for presentation to a person using the mobile device, wherein the informational content is stored in association with the broadcast-identifying information for the respective broadcast; receiving, through a user interface of the mobile device, input from a person using the mobile device; identifying informational content to present to the person using the mobile device as a function of the received input and the broadcast-identifying information associated with the stored informational content; and presenting the selected informational content to the person using the mobile device.

Claims

1. An invention comprising a method for presenting informational content stored in a mobile device, the method comprising the steps of:

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

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

(ii) broadcast-identifying information;

(b) for each respective broadcast of the plurality, storing the informational content of the respective broadcast within the mobile device for presentation to a person using the mobile device, the informational content being stored in association with the broadcast-identifying information for the respective broadcast;

(c) receiving, through a user interface of the mobile device, input from a person using the mobile device;

(d) identifying informational content to present to the person using the mobile device as a function of said received input and the broadcast-identifying information associated with said stored informational content; and

(e) presenting said identified informational content to the person using the mobile device.

2. The invention of claim 1, wherein the mobile device comprises an audiovisual system for presenting the informational content that is stored within the mobile device, and wherein said step of presenting comprises presenting the audiovisual content using the audiovisual system of the mobile device.

3. The invention of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is Internet-enabled, wherein said informational content includes an Internet address, and wherein said step of presenting said identified informational content further includes downloading content from the Internet address and presenting the downloaded content to the person using the mobile device.

4. The invention of claim 1, wherein the mobile device includes a search engine for searching the broadcast-identifying information based on said received user input.

5. The invention of claim 4, wherein the broadcast-identifying information is presented to a person using the mobile device by order of relevancy, geographic location, or selected priority.

6. The invention of claim 1, wherein said step of identifying informational content further comprises searching said stored informational content as a function of said received user input.

7. The invention of claim 1, wherein the mobile device includes a search engine for searching said stored informational content based on said received user input.

8. The invention of claim 7, wherein said stored informational content is presented by order of relevancy, geographic location, or selected priority.

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

10. The invention of claim 1, wherein said received input comprises a preferences profile for screening of received broadcasts.

11. The invention of claim 1, wherein said received input represents a selection by a person using the mobile device of a received broadcast from a list of received broadcasts.

12. 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.

13. The invention of claim 12, wherein the informational content of the governmental broadcast is not stored within the mobile device.

14. The invention of claim 12, wherein the informational content of the governmental broadcast is stored within the mobile device.

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

16. The invention of claim 15, wherein the informational content comprises a picture of the missing child.

17. The invention of claim 12, wherein the informational content of the governmental broadcast comprises information pertaining to an advisory from the national weather service.

18. The invention of claim 12, wherein the informational content of the governmental broadcast comprises information pertaining to homeland security.

19. An invention comprising a method for presenting informational content of different broadcasts, the method comprising the steps of:

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

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

(ii) broadcast-identifying information;

(b) for a broadcast comprising broadcast-identifying information indicating 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

(c) for each broadcast comprising broadcast-identifying information indicating that the received broadcast is other than a governmental broadcast, storing the informational content of the broadcast within the mobile device for presentation to a person using the mobile device, the informational content being stored in association with the broadcast-identifying information for the broadcast.