METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR KEYWORD-BASED MEDIA ITEM TRANSMISSION

• US 20080162454A1
• Filed: 01/03/2007
• Published: 07/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/03/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Motorola Mobility, Inc. (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Lundell, Louis J., Cheng, Yan Ming
• Application Number:
  US11/619,465
• Publication Number:
  US 20080162454A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/5
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/313 Selection or weighting of terms for indexing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/41 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/437 Administration of user profiles, e.g. generation, initialisation, adaptation, distribution

Abstract

A system includes a first communications device [105] to participate in a conversation with at least a second communication device [110]. An intelligent communication agent [120] monitors the conversation for at least one keyword. In response to detecting the at least one keyword, the intelligent communication agent performs a search for multimedia content corresponding to the at least one keyword and retrieves the multimedia content. A logic engine [135] determines relevant content of the multimedia content based on at least one of a conversation profile and at least one user profile for at least one of a user of the first communication device and at least a second user of the at least a second communication device. A transmission element [130] transmits the relevant content to at least one of the first communication device, the at least a second communication device, and a predetermined multimedia device [145].

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a first communication device to participate in a conversation with at least a second communication device;

an intelligent communication agent to monitor the conversation for at least one keyword, wherein in response to detecting the at least one keyword, the intelligent communication agent performs a search for multimedia content corresponding to the at least one keyword and retrieves the multimedia content;

a logic engine to determine relevant content of the multimedia content based on at least one of a conversation profile and at least one user profile for at least one of a user of the first communication device and at least a second user of the at least a second communication device; and

a transmission element to transmit the relevant content to at least one of the first communication device, the at least a second communication device, and a predetermined multimedia device.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein in the intelligent communication agent comprises a keyword detection element to detect the at least one keyword based on a detection of at least one of repeated sound bites and stressed sound bites.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the intelligent communication agent comprises a search element to search at least one of a database and the Internet.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the intelligent communication agent is adapted to utilize a lookup table to determine an identity of the at least one multimedia item corresponding to the at least one keyword.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the first communication device is in communication with the at least a second communication device via at least one of a hard-wired connection, a network, and the Internet.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one user profile is determined based on at least one of previous conversations for the user and manual entries by the user.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the conversation profile is determined based on an analysis of the conversation.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the conversation comprises at least one of audio and text.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one multimedia item comprises at least one of a document, text content, audio content, and video content.

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising a memory to store the conversation, wherein the intelligent communication device monitors the conversation after the conversation has ended and has been stored in the memory.

11. A method, comprising:

communicating, by a first communication device, with at least a second communication device;

monitoring the communicating for at least one keyword;

performing a search for multimedia content corresponding to the at least one keyword;

retrieving the multimedia content;

determining relevant content of the multimedia content based at least one of a conversation profile and at least one user profile for at least one of a user of the first communication device and at least a second user of the at least a second communication device; and

transmitting the relevant content to at least one of the first communication device, the at least a second communication device, and a predetermined multimedia device.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising detecting the at least one keyword based on a detection of at least one of repeated sound bites and stressed sound bites.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising searching at least one of a database and the Internet.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising utilizing a lookup table to determine an identity of the at least one file corresponding to the predetermine keywords.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the communication is via at least one of a hard-wired connection, a network, and the Internet.

16. The method of claim 11, further comprising determining the at least one user profile based on at least one of previous conversations for the user and manual entries by the user.

17. A system, comprising:

an input device to receive, from at least one user, at least one manually entered keyword;

an intelligent communication agent to perform a search for multimedia content corresponding to the at least one keyword and retrieve the multimedia content;

a logic engine to determine relevant content of the multimedia content based on at least one user profile for the at least one user; and

a transmission element to transmit the relevant content to a predetermined multimedia device.

18. The system of claim 17, further comprising a memory to store a lookup table mapping the at least one keyword with the at least one multimedia item.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein the at least one multimedia item comprises at least one of a document, text content, audio content, and video content.

20. The system of claim 17, wherein the intelligent communication agent comprises a search element to search at least one of a database and the Internet.