METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING SOURCES OF LOCATION RELEVANT CONTENT TO A USER OF A MOBILE RADIO TERMINAL

• US 20070263069A1
• Filed: 06/13/2006
• Published: 11/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Jendbro, Magnus
• Granted Patent: US 7,574,170 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/14.20
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation

Abstract

A method of identifying sources of location relevant content to a user of mobile radio terminal. The method includes determining a location of the mobile radio terminal; determining content sources for which audiovisual content having relevancy to the identified location may be transmitted to the mobile radio terminal for playback; and identifying the determined content sources to the user.

Claims

1. A method of identifying sources of location relevant content to a user of mobile radio terminal, comprising:

determining a present or planned location of the mobile radio terminal;

determining content sources from which audiovisual content having relevancy to the determined location may be transmitted to the mobile radio terminal for playback; and

pushing the identities of the determined content sources to the user automatically after the determination.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining the location and the determining of content sources are carried out in response to travel of the mobile radio terminal to a present location from a different location.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the sources include at least one of a podcast, a mobile television channel or a mobile radio channel.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining of content sources is made by a server and the pushing the identities of the determined content sources includes transmitting identities of the determined sources to the mobile radio terminal in a feed format.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the feed format is an RSS push.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying the identities of the determined sources to the user.

7. The method of claim 1, upon user selection of one of the determined sources, further comprising transmitting content corresponding to the selected source to the mobile radio terminal for playback.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile radio terminal is a mobile telephone.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining of content sources includes searching sources of content that are available to the mobile radio terminal under a user subscription with an operator of a communications network servicing the mobile radio terminal and that are available in the location.

10. A program stored on a machine usable medium for identifying sources of location relevant content to a user of mobile radio terminal, the program comprising executable logic to:

determine a present or planned location of the mobile radio terminal;

determine content sources from which audiovisual content having relevancy to the determined location may be transmitted to the mobile radio terminal for playback; and

pushing the identities of the determined content sources to the user automatically after the determination.

11. The program of claim 10, wherein the logic to determine the location and the logic to determine the content sources are executed in response to travel of the mobile radio terminal to a present location from a different location.

12. The program of claim 10, wherein the sources include at least one of a podcast, a mobile television channel or a mobile radio channel.

13. The program of claim 10, wherein the logic to determine the content sources is executed by a server and the logic to push the identities of the determined content sources includes logic to transmit identities of the determined sources to the mobile radio terminal in a feed format.

14. The program of claim 13, wherein the feed format is an RSS push.

15. The program of claim 10, wherein upon user selection of one of the determined sources, further logic of the program transmits content corresponding to the selected source to the mobile radio terminal for playback.

16. The program of claim 10, wherein the mobile radio terminal is a mobile telephone.

17. The program of claim 10, wherein the logic to determine the content sources includes logic to search sources of content that are available to the mobile radio terminal under a user subscription with an operator of a communications network servicing the mobile radio terminal and that are available in the location.

18. A server configured to identify sources of location relevant content to a user of mobile radio terminal, the server executing logic to:

determine a present or planned location of the mobile radio terminal;

determine content sources from which audiovisual content having relevancy to the determined location may be transmitted to the mobile radio terminal for playback; and

push the identities of the determined content sources to the mobile radio terminal automatically after the determination.

19. The server of claim 18, wherein the logic to determine the location and the logic to determine the content sources are executed in response to travel of the mobile radio terminal to a present location from a different location.

20. The server of claim 18, wherein the identities of the determined content sources are pushed in an RSS feed format.