COMMUNICATION SYSTEM INCORPORATING AMBIENT SOUND PATTERN DETECTION AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF

• US 20100114344A1
• Filed: 10/30/2009
• Published: 05/06/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Orange S.A.
• Original Assignee: Orange S.A.
• Inventors: HANNABY, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US12/610,265
• Publication Number:
  US 20100114344A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/94
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0204 Market segmentation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0267 Wireless devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/63 Routing a service request depending on the request content or context

Abstract

A system, method, device and interface for rendering information including the acts of capturing ambient information, determining whether one or more distinguishing patterns is present in the captured ambient information, accessing user profile information, requesting content information when it is determined that the captured one or more distinguishing patterns is present in the captured ambient information, and rendering the requested content information.

Claims

1. A method of rendering information comprising acts of:

capturing ambient information;

determining whether one or more distinguishing patterns is present in the captured ambient information;

requesting content information when it is determined that the one or more distinguishing patterns is present in the captured ambient information; and

rendering the requested content information.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising an act of receiving the requested content information.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising an act of accessing user profile information, wherein the content information is selected in accordance with the captured ambient information and the user profile information.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the captured ambient information comprises audio or visual information.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein captured ambient information is selectively added to the one or more distinguishing patterns.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more distinguishing patterns comprise watermarks which are contained in a header or a footer of at least a portion of the ambient information.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the act of determining whether one or more distinguishing patterns is present in the captured ambient information, comprises searching a list of distinguishing patterns that was transmitted from a base station (BS) to a mobile station (MS).

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising an act of transmitting the requested content information to a mobile station (MS) only when it is determined that the one or more distinguishing patterns are present in the captured ambient information.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising an act of transmitting, from a mobile station (MS) to a base station (BS), a query comprising the captured ambient information including the one or more distinguishing patterns.

26. The method of claim 3, wherein user profile information comprises information related to one or more user identification (ID), user purchase history, time of purchase history, purchase type history, family information, friend information, purchase location.

6. (canceled)

11. A watermarking method comprising acts of:

creating one or more watermarks;

inserting at least one watermark of the one or more watermarks into a header or a footer of audio content so as to form watermarked audio content; and

transmitting the watermarked audio content.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

forming a query using at least one watermark of the one or more watermarks.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising acts of:

obtaining content information in accordance with the query and user profile information; and

rendering the obtained content.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising acts of:

storing the one or more watermarks in a database; and

transmitting, from a base station (BS) to a mobile station (MS), a list comprising the one or more watermarks.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the MS stores the list comprising the one or more watermarks.

16. A computer program stored on a computer readable memory medium, the computer program configured to capture ambient information to be used for rendering content, the computer program comprising:

a program portion configured to;

capture ambient information;

determine whether one or more distinguishing patterns are present in the captured ambient information;

request content information when it is determined that the one or more distinguishing patterns is present in the captured ambient information; and

render the requested content information.

17. The computer program of claim 16, wherein the program portion is configured to receive the requested content information.

18. The computer program of claim 16, wherein the program portion is configured to access user profile information, wherein the content information is selected in accordance with the captured ambient information and the user profile information.

19. The computer program of claim 16, further comprising a program portion configured to capture ambient information comprising audio or visual information.

20. The computer program of claim 16, further comprising a program portion configured to selectively add the one or more distinguishing patterns to the ambient information.

22. The computer program of claim 16, further comprising a program portion configured to place the one or more distinguishing patterns comprising watermarks in a header or a footer of at least a portion of the ambient information.

23. The computer program of claim 16, further comprising a program portion configured to search a list of distinguishing patterns that was transmitted from a base station (BS) to a mobile station (MS) when the program portion determines that one or more distinguishing patterns are present in the captured ambient information.

24. The computer program of claim 16, further comprising a program portion configured to transmit the request to a base station (BS) from a mobile station (MS), only when it is determined that the one or more distinguishing patterns are present in the captured ambient information.

25. The computer program of claim 16, further comprising a program portion configured to transmit, from a mobile station (MS) to a base station (BS), a query comprising the distinguishing information.

27. The computer program of claim 18, wherein user profile information comprises:

information related to one or more user identification (ID), user purchase history, time of purchase history, purchase type history, family information, friend information, purchase location.

21. (canceled)