Method and system for identifying sources of location relevant content to a user of a mobile radio terminal

• US 7,574,170 B2
• Filed: 06/13/2006
• Issued: 08/11/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications USA Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Jendbro, Magnus
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran; CongVan
• Application Number:
  US11/423,888
• Publication Number:
  US 20070263069A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,155 Days
• Field of Search: 455/3.01, 455/3.06, 455/404.2, 455/414.1, 455/456.1, 455/456.3, 455/457
• US Class Current: 455/3.06
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation

Abstract

A method of identifying sources of location relevant content to a user of mobile radio terminal. The method includes determining a location of the mobile radio terminal; determining content sources for which audiovisual content having relevancy to the identified location may be transmitted to the mobile radio terminal for playback; and identifying the determined content sources to the user.

Claims

1. A method of identifying broadcast services associated with location relevant content to a user of mobile radio terminal, comprising:

determining a present location of the mobile radio terminal;

determining broadcast service sources from which audiovisual content having relevancy to the determined location may be transmitted to the mobile radio terminal for playback; and

pushing the identities of the determined broadcast service sources to the mobile radio terminal automatically after the determination, wherein each identified broadcast service is associated with at least one of a podcast, a mobile television channel or a mobile radio channel such that the pushed identities collectively identify plural sources of broadcast services for audiovisual content having relevancy to the determined location in a user interactive presentation; and

wherein the determining of broadcast service sources is made by a server and the pushing the identities of the determined broadcast service sources includes transmitting identities of the determined sources to the mobile radio terminal in a feed format.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining the location and the determining of broadcast service sources are carried out in response to travel of the mobile radio terminal to a present location from a different location.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the feed format is an RSS push.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying the interactive presentation to the user.

5. The method of claim 1, upon user selection of one of the determined sources, further comprising transmitting content corresponding to the selected source to the mobile radio terminal for playback.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile radio terminal is a mobile telephone.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining of broadcast service sources includes searching sources of content that are available to the mobile radio terminal under a user subscription with an operator of a communications network servicing the mobile radio terminal and that are available in the location.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the interactive presentation is one of a menu or selectable links.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising filtering the determined broadcast service sources based on content category, the content category selected from news, sports, weather, music, traffic, travel, events, shopping, dining and combinations thereof.

10. A server configured to identify broadcast services associated with location relevant content to a user of mobile radio terminal, the server comprising a memory to store executable logic and a processor to execute the logic, wherein executing the logic:

determines a present location of the mobile radio terminal;

determine broadcast service sources from which audiovisual content having relevancy to the determined location may be transmitted to the mobile radio terminal for playback; and

push the identities of the determined broadcast service sources to the mobile radio terminal automatically after the determination, wherein each identified broadcast service is associated with at least one of a podcast, a mobile television channel or a mobile radio channel such that the pushed identities collectively identify plural sources of broadcast services for audiovisual content having relevancy to the determined location in a user interactive presentation; and

wherein the identities of the determined broadcast service sources are pushed in an RSS feed format.

11. The server of claim 10, wherein the logic to determine the location and the logic to determine the broadcast service sources are executed in response to travel of the mobile radio terminal to a present location from a different location.

12. The server of claim 10, wherein to determine the broadcast service sources, the executable logic searches sources of content that are available to the mobile radio terminal under a user subscription with an operator of a communications network servicing the mobile radio terminal and that are available in the location.

13. The server of claim 10, wherein the interactive presentation is one of a menu or selectable links.

14. The server of claim 10, wherein the executable logic filters the determined broadcast service sources based on content category, the content category selected from news, sports, weather, music, traffic, travel, events, shopping, dining and combinations thereof.

15. A method of identifying broadcast services associated with location relevant content to a user of mobile radio terminal, comprising:

determining a present location of the mobile radio terminal;

determining broadcast service sources from which audiovisual content having relevancy to the determined location may be transmitted to the mobile radio terminal for playback; and

pushing the identities of the determined broadcast service sources to the mobile radio terminal automatically after the determination, wherein each identified broadcast service is associated with at least one of a podcast, a mobile television channel or a mobile radio channel such that the pushed identities collectively identify plural sources of broadcast services for audiovisual content having relevancy to the determined location in a user interactive presentation; and

wherein the determining of broadcast service sources includes searching sources of content that are available to the mobile radio terminal under a user subscription with an operator of a communications network servicing the mobile radio terminal and that are available in the location.

16. A server configured to identify broadcast services associated with location relevant content to a user of mobile radio terminal, the server comprising a memory to store executable logic and a processor to execute the logic, wherein executing the logic:

determines a present location of the mobile radio terminal;

determine broadcast service sources from which audiovisual content having relevancy to the determined location may be transmitted to the mobile radio terminal for playback; and

push the identities of the determined broadcast service sources to the mobile radio terminal automatically after the determination, wherein each identified broadcast service is associated with at least one of a podcast, a mobile television channel or a mobile radio channel such that the pushed identities collectively identify plural sources of broadcast services for audiovisual content having relevancy to the determined location in a user interactive presentation; and

wherein to determine the broadcast service sources, the executable logic searches sources of content that are available to the mobile radio terminal under a user subscription with an operator of a communications network servicing the mobile radio terminal and that are available in the location.