LOCATION SPECIFIC STREAMING OF CONTENT

• US 20110014929A1
• Filed: 07/20/2009
• Published: 01/20/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Convene LLC
• Original Assignee: Convene LLC
• Inventors: Stone, Thomas William, Kitchens, John William, Moshfeghi, Andrew Akbar, Moshfeghi, Darius Mohammad
• Application Number:
  US12/505,574
• Publication Number:
  US 20110014929A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.3
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals

Abstract

The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that stream pertinent and/or selected content to a mobile device based at least in part on the location of the mobile device. The system can include components that detect the presence of a mobile device within a coverage area dynamically demarcated by an access point, determine the mobile device location in relation to the access point, and thereafter supplies event information to the mobile device based on the mobile device location in relation to the access point.

Claims

1. A method that streams pertinent content to a mobile device, comprising:

detecting the mobile device within a broadcast coverage area demarcated by an access point;

determining the mobile device location with respect to the access point; and

based at least in part on the mobile device location in relation to the access point, supplying content to the mobile device.

2. The method of claim 1, the content includes a conference agenda customized for a user of the mobile device.

3. The method of claim 2, the customized conference agenda includes interactive portions with which the user can interact.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising utilizing the mobile device location to register a user associated with the mobile device to an event serviced by the access point.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising utilizing one or more user preference associated with a user of the mobile device to schedule registration for at least one future event.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising employing the mobile device location to provide information to a user regarding an on-going event.

7. The method of claim 1, the access point positioned centrally within an event arena.

8. The method of claim 1, based at least in part on a distance from the access point to the mobile device, the access point supplies content of greater or lesser detail to the mobile device.

9. An apparatus, comprising:

a memory that retains instructions related to identifying a mobile device within a broadcast coverage range circumscribed by an access point, ascertaining the mobile device position with respect to the access point, and supplying content to the mobile device based at least in part on the mobile device position in relation to the access point; and

a processor, coupled to the memory, configured to execute the instructions retained in the memory

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the memory retains instructions related to employing the mobile device position in relation to the access point to provide event information of various degrees of granularity.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the event information includes information related to users of other mobile devices within the broadcast coverage range circumscribed by the access point.

12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the event information includes updates to event information previously disseminated to the mobile device.

13. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein when the mobile device position is at the periphery of the broadcast coverage range circumscribed by the access point, the event information provided to the mobile device is least granular.

14. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein when the mobile device position is closest to the access point the event information provided to the mobile device is most granular.

15. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the memory retains instructions related to obtaining event information from other access points associated with individual events and summarizing the event information from the other access points to provide a least granular overview of the event information.

16. A wireless communications apparatus, comprising:

a processor configured to;

detect a mobile device within a broadcast coverage area circumscribed by an access point;

determine the mobile device location within the broadcast coverage area; and

supply digital content to the mobile device based on the mobile device location.

17. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 16, wherein the processor is further configured to employ the mobile device location to register a user associated with the mobile device to an event serviced by the access point.

18. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 16, wherein the processor is further configured to utilize a user preference associated with a user of the mobile device to reserve hotel accommodation for an event serviced by the access point.

19. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 16, wherein the processor is further configured to utilize a user preference associated with a user of the mobile device to recommend one or more future event serviced by the access point.

20. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 16, wherein the processor is further configured to obtain event information from other access points associated with individual events and summarize the event information from the other access points to provide a least granular overview of the event information.