SYSTEM AND MEHOD FOR PROVIDING INTERACTIVE CONTENT

• US 20100251283A1
• Filed: 03/31/2009
• Published: 09/30/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Smith, Allen W.
• Application Number:
  US12/414,955
• Publication Number:
  US 20100251283A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/25
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

A system and method for providing interactive content are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving, in a vehicle via a wireless broadcast, audiovisual content and user-requestable content, rendering the audiovisual content, receiving user input indicative of request for the user-requestable content, and rendering, in response to receiving the user input, the user-requestable content. The user-requestable content can include, but is not limited to, additional audiovisual content, climate control data, and navigation data.

Claims

1. A method of providing interactive content to a user, the method comprising:

receiving, in a vehicle via a wireless broadcast, audiovisual content and user-requestable content;

rendering the audiovisual content;

receiving user input indicative of request for the user-requestable content; and

rendering, in response to receiving the user input, the user-requestable content.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the user-requestable content comprises additional audiovisual content.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein rendering comprises rendering the user-requestable content with a vehicular entertainment system of the vehicle.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the user-requestable content is indicative of a location.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein rendering comprises rendering the user-requestable content with a navigation system of the vehicle.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the user input is received via a vehicular voice command system.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising, prior to rendering the user-requestable content, storing the user-requestable content in a memory device and retrieving the user-requestable content from the memory device.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining whether the vehicle is in a first state, wherein rendering the audiovisual content is based on the determination.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the first state is a park state.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein determining whether the vehicle is in a first state comprises determining the speed of the vehicle.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the audiovisual content comprises audio content and video content, and wherein, if it determined that the vehicle is in the first state, rendering the audiovisual content comprises rendering only the audio content.

20. The method of claim 1, further comprising, rendering, if the vehicle is not in the first state, the video component on a second display.

21. The method of claim 1, wherein the audiovisual component further comprises an audio component, further comprising rendering the audio component over one or more speakers.

22. The method of claim 1, wherein the alternative component comprises at least one of text, an image, or video.

23. The method of claim 1, wherein the first display comprises a display viewable by a driver of the vehicle.

24. The method of claim 1, wherein determining whether the vehicle is in a first state comprising at least one of determining a speed of the vehicle or determining a transmission mode.

12. A system for providing interactive content to a user, the system comprising:

a receiver configured to receive, via a wireless broadcast, audiovisual content and user-requestable content;

an input device configured to receive a user input indicative of request for the user-requestable content; and

a vehicular entertainment system configured to render the audiovisual content and to render, in response to receiving the user input, the user-requestable content.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the vehicular entertainment system comprises at least one of a processor configured to process or a storage configured to store at least one of the audiovisual content or the user-requestable content.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the vehicular entertainment system comprises at least one of a display or a speaker upon which the audiovisual content is rendered.

15. The system of claim 12, wherein the vehicular entertainment system is further configured to receive an indication of a state of a vehicle.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the audiovisual content comprises audio content and video content, and wherein, if it determined that the vehicle is not in a first state, rendering the audiovisual content comprises rendering only the audio content.

17. A system for providing interactive content to a user, the system comprising:

means for receiving audiovisual content and user-requestable content;

means for rendering the audiovisual content;

means for receiving user input indicative of request for the user-requestable content; and

means for rendering, in response to receiving the user input, the user-requestable content.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the means for receiving audiovisual content and user-requestable content comprises at least one of an antenna, a network interface, a computer-readable storage, or a processor;

the means for rendering the audiovisual content comprises at least one of a display, a speaker, or a processor;

the means for receiving user input comprises at least one of a voice command system, an input device of a vehicular entertainment system, a computer-readable storage, or a processor;

or the means for rendering the user-requestable content comprises at least one of a display, a speaker, a climate control system, a navigation system, or a processor.

19. A method of providing audiovisual content to a user, the method comprising:

receiving, in a vehicle via a wireless broadcast, audiovisual content, the audiovisual content comprising a video component and an alternative component associated with the video component;

determining whether the vehicle is in a first state; and

rendering, if the vehicle is in the first state, the video component on a first display and not rendering the alternative component on the first display, or

rendering, if the vehicle is not in the first state, the alternative component on the first display and not rendering the video component on the first display.

25. A computer-readable storage medium having executable instructions encoded thereon, wherein execution of the instructions causes one or more processors to perform method of providing interactive content to a user, the method comprising:

receiving, in a vehicle via a wireless broadcast, audiovisual content and user-requestable content;

rendering the audiovisual content;

receiving user input indicative of request for the user-requestable content; and

rendering, in response to receiving the user input, the user-requestable content.