Method and apparatus for obtaining localized electronic feeds in a mobile device

• US 7,610,051 B2
• Filed: 10/27/2005
• Issued: 10/27/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Inventors: Dunko, Gregory A, East, Allen Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Kincaid; Lester
• Assistant Examiner(s): MITCHELL, NATHAN A
• Application Number:
  US11/260,792
• Publication Number:
  US 20070097929A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,461 Days
• Field of Search: 370/338, 455/404.2, 455/412.1, 4554141-4143, 455/456.1, 709/203
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel

Abstract

A wireless communication device is configured to use location information available within the device to tailor the retrieval of electronic feed content. For example, the device may automatically use its current location to retrieve localized news feeds, localized podcasts, localized web pages, etc. In one embodiment, the device retrieves electronic feed content and then filters that content based on the location information to identify locally relevant content that may be displayed or otherwise made available to a user of the device. In another embodiment, the device provides all or part of its location information to a remote content server, and the content server sends localized content based on that information. In at least one embodiment, the device establishes and terminates subscriptions to localized feeds as needed responsive to changes in the device'"'"'s current location. Further, the device may store or otherwise track locations and retrieve localized content for prior locations.

Claims

1. A wireless communication device comprising one or more processing circuits configured to:

store a plurality of previous locations of the wireless communication device;

select one or more of the stored previous locations based on a frequency or duration of the wireless communication device being in a particular location and based on a prior subscription history associated with the particular location; and

retrieve electronic feed content localized to the selected one or more previous locations of the wireless communication device.

2. The wireless communication device of claim 1, wherein the one or more processing circuits are configured to selectively terminate subscriptions established to one or more electronic feeds associated with the localized electronic feed content responsive to the frequency or duration of the wireless communication device being in a particular location.

3. The wireless communication device of claim 1, further configured to store the plurality of previous locations of the wireless communication device within the memory of the wireless communication device.

4. The wireless communication device of claim 1, further configured to select the one or more stored previous locations of the wireless communication device from among one or more first previous locations stored in the memory of the wireless communication device and one or more second previous locations stored within the memory of a remote content server.

5. A wireless communication device comprising one or more processing circuits configured to:

store a plurality of previous locations of the wireless communication device;

select one or more of the stored previous locations based on a frequency or duration of the wireless communication device being in a particular location;

retrieve electronic feed content localized to the selected one or more previous locations of the wireless communication device; and

selectively terminate subscriptions established to one or more electronic feeds associated with the localized electronic feed content responsive to the frequency or duration of the wireless communication device being in a particular location.