System and method for managing and associating dynamic containers of a content providing device

• US 20050188078A1
• Filed: 02/23/2004
• Published: 08/25/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Binzel, Charles P., Kotzin, Michael D., Bruner, John D.
• Application Number:
  US10/784,596
• Publication Number:
  US 20050188078A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/62 Establishing a time schedule for servicing the requests
• 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 21/4331 Caching operations, e.g. of an advertisement for later insertion during playback
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4424 Monitoring of the internal components or processes of the client device, e.g. CPU or memory load, processing speed, timer, counter or percentage of the hard disk space used error monitoring in general G06F11/30; arrangements for monitoring conditions of receiving stations in broadcast systems H04H60/32; diagnosis, testing or measuring for television receivers H04N17/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4432 Powering on the client, e.g. bootstrap loading using setup parameters being stored locally or received from the server resetting in general G06F1/14; program loading or initiating in general G06F9/445; bootstrapping in general G06F9/4401; secure boots of computer platforms G06F21/57
• 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 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8543 using a description language, e.g. Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group [MHEG], eXtensible Markup Language [XML] information retrieval of semistructured data, the underlying structure being taken into account, e.g. mark-up language structure data G06F16/80
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 by receiver means only
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data

Abstract

A wireless communication device (104) and method for managing dynamic containers (314) is described. The device (104) comprises a processor (204), a display (216), and at least one of a timing circuit (211) and a location circuit (228). The timing circuit (211) detects a current time of the device, and the location circuit (228) detects a current location of the device. The processor (204) selects a particular channel (308) among a plurality of channels associated with a dynamic container (314) of the device (104) based on the current time and/or the current location of the device. The display (216) provides a unit of content of the particular channel (308) via the dynamic container (314) if an update time of the particular channel corresponds to the current time of the device (104) and/or an associated location of the particular channel corresponds to the current location of the device.

Claims

1. A method of a wireless communication device for managing dynamic containers comprising:

detecting a current time of the device;

selecting a particular channel among a plurality of channels associated with a dynamic container of the device based on the current time of the device; and

displaying a unit of content of the particular channel via the dynamic container if an update time of the particular channel corresponds to the current time of the device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the update time corresponds to a time period when content of the particular channel is recurringly updated.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining the update time by monitoring user interaction with the at least one channel during a predetermined time period.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining the update time by receiving the update time from a user of the device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein further comprising obtaining the unit of content of the particular channel before the update time of the particular channel.

6. A method of a wireless communication device for managing dynamic containers comprising:

detecting a current location of the device;

selecting a particular channel among a plurality of channels associated with a dynamic container of the device based on the current location of the device; and

displaying a unit of content of the particular channel via the dynamic container if an associated location of the particular channel corresponds to the current location of the device.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the associated location corresponds to a location of a source associated with the particular channel.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising determining the associated location by receiving the associated location from a source associated with the particular location.

9. The method of claim 6, further comprising obtaining the unit of content of the particular channel after the particular channel is selected.

10. A wireless communication device for managing dynamic containers comprising:

a timing circuit configured to detect a current time of the device;

a processor, coupled to the timing circuit, configured to select a particular channel, among a plurality of channels, associated with a dynamic container of the device based on the current time of the device; and

a display, coupled to the processor, configured to provide a unit of content of the particular channel via the dynamic container if an update time of the particular channel corresponds to the current time of the device.

11. The wireless communication device of claim 10, wherein the update time corresponds to a time period when content of the particular channel is recurringly updated.

12. The wireless communication device of claim 10, further comprising a transceiver, coupled to the processor, wherein the processor determines the update time by monitoring user interaction with the at least one channel via the transceiver during a predetermined time period.

13. The wireless communication device of claim 10, further comprising a user interface coupled to the processor, wherein the processor determines the update time by receiving the update time from the user interface.

14. The wireless communication device of claim 10, wherein further comprising a transceiver, coupled to the processor, configured to obtain the unit of content of the particular channel before the update time of the particular channel.

15. A wireless communication device for managing dynamic containers comprising:

a location circuit configured to detect a current location of the device;

a processor, coupled to the location circuit, configured to select a particular channel, among a plurality of channels, associated with a dynamic container of the device based on the current location of the device; and

a display, coupled to the processor, configured to provide a unit of content of the particular channel via the dynamic container if an associated location of the particular channel corresponds to the current location of the device.

16. The wireless communication device of claim 15, wherein the associated location corresponds to a location of a source associated with the particular channel.

17. The wireless communication device of claim 15, further comprising a transceiver, coupled to the processor, configured to receive the associated location from a source associated with the particular location.

18. The wireless communication device of claim 15, further comprising a transceiver, coupled to the processor, configured to obtain the unit of content of the particular channel after the particular channel is selected.

19. A wireless communication system for managing dynamic containers of a remote device comprising:

a processor configured to determine an update time of a particular channel, among a plurality of channels, associated with a dynamic container of the remote device, wherein the update time corresponds to a time period when content of the particular channel is recurringly updated; and

a transceiver, coupled to the processor, configured to provide a unit of content of the particular channel to the remote device before the update time of the particular channel.

20. A wireless communication system for managing dynamic containers of a remote device comprising:

a processor configured to determine an associated location of a particular channel, among a plurality of channels, associated with a dynamic container of the remote device, wherein the associated location corresponds to a location of a source associated with the particular channel; and

a transceiver, coupled to the processor, configured to provide a unit of content of the particular channel to the remote device after the particular channel is determined by the processor.