Audible Content Delivery System
First Claim
1. A method of delivering content to a device, comprising:
- an identifying step of identifying areas of interest for a user;
a retrieving step of retrieving related content to said areas of interest;
a delivery step of delivering said related content to a first user device; and
a playing step of audibly playing said related content by said first user device.
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Abstract
An audible content delivery system which tracks a user'"'"'s interests and accesses, processes, and delivers relevant content to a user'"'"'s device to be played in an audible format. The present invention includes a central communication unit communicatively interconnected with one or more user devices through a communications network. The central communication unit tracks content (e.g. web content) visited by the user device to identify relevant interests of the user. Using this information, the central communication unit identifies additional relevant content and retrieves the content for delivery to the user device. The content is extracted, cleaned up, and processed prior to delivery in a compressed format to the user device to decrease bandwidth usage. The user device decompresses the delivered content and audibly plays the content for the user.
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20 Claims
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1. A method of delivering content to a device, comprising:
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an identifying step of identifying areas of interest for a user; a retrieving step of retrieving related content to said areas of interest; a delivery step of delivering said related content to a first user device; and a playing step of audibly playing said related content by said first user device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method of delivering content to a user device, comprising:
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a tracking step of tracking online activities of a user on a user device; an identifying step of identifying areas of interest for said user; a retrieving step of retrieving related content to said areas of interest for said user; a processing step of processing said related content by a central communication unit; a compression step of compressing said related content by said central communication unit; a delivery step of delivering said related content to a user device by said central communication unit; a conversion step of converting said related content into an audio file by said user device and a playing step of playing said audio file by said user device. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A non-transitory program storage device readable by a computer, embodying a program of instructions executable by the computer to perform method steps for delivering content to a user device based on a user'"'"'s interests, said method steps comprising:
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a tracking step of tracking online activities of a user on a first user device; an identifying step of identifying areas of interest for said user; a retrieving step of retrieving related content to said areas of interest for said user; a processing step of processing said related content by a central communication unit; a compression step of compressing said related content by said central communication unit; a delivery step of delivering said related content in text data format to a second user device by said central communication unit; a conversion step of converting said related content into an audio file by said second user device; and a playing step of playing said audio file by said second user device. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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