Dynamic selection and scheduling of radio frequency communications

• US 7,660,557 B2
• Filed: 05/16/2005
• Issued: 02/09/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/23/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Steelberg, Ryan, Steelberg, Chad
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen; Tu X
• Application Number:
  US11/130,655
• Publication Number:
  US 20060020965A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,730 Days
• Field of Search: 705/14, 455/3.06, 455/7, 455/3.05, 455/3.01, 455/69
• US Class Current: 455/3.06
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0875 Itemisation or classification of parts, supplies or services, e.g. bill of materials
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/06 Arrangements for scheduling broadcast services or broadcast-related services
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2221 being a cable television head-end CATV in broadcast systems H04H20/78
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/24 Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. monitoring of server load, available bandwidth, upstream requests monitoring of server performance or load G06F11/34; arrangements for observation, testing or troubleshooting for broadcast or for distribution combined with broadcast H04H20/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17309 Transmission or handling of upstream communications

Abstract

A manager for playing of broadcast specific information is disclosed. The manager for playing of broadcast specific information includes a managing node that is at least partially resident at a radio broadcast point, wherein the managing node includes a plurality of inputs for receipt of the broadcast specific information from at least two sources, wherein the hub records the broadcast specific information entering at least two of the plurality of inputs for eventual broadcast from the radio broadcast point, and at least one broadcast non-specific information input associated with the managing node, wherein at least one of a format, play time, and play type of the broadcast specific information are varied in accordance with the broadcast non-specific information, and wherein the varied broadcast specific information is broadcast from the radio broadcast point.

Claims

1. A manager for playing of broadcast specific information, comprising:

a managing node that is at least partially resident at a radio broadcast point, wherein the managing node includes a plurality of inputs for receipt of the broadcast specific information from at least two sources, wherein the managing node records the broadcast specific information entering at least two of the plurality of inputs for eventual broadcast from the radio broadcast point; and

at least one broadcast non-specific information input associated with the managing node, wherein at least one of a format, play time, and play type of the broadcast specific information are varied in accordance with the broadcast non-specific information, and wherein the varied broadcast specific information is broadcast from the radio broadcast point to a remote device configured to broadcast the varied broadcast specific information,

wherein, the managing node is configured to perform operations including;

receiving feedback describing information that was broadcast by the remote device, and

comparing the information that was broadcast by the remote device with the varied broadcast specific information to identify differences between the information that was broadcast and the varied broadcast specific information.

2. The manager of claim 1, wherein the varied broadcast specific information broadcasts are logged.

3. The manager of claim 1, wherein the plurality of inputs for receipt of the broadcast specific information includes at least one networked computer input.

4. The manager of claim 1, wherein the at least one broadcast non-specific information input includes at least one networked computer input.

5. The manager of claim 1, wherein the broadcast specific information, once recorded, is locally available.

6. The manager of claim 1, wherein the broadcast specific information, once recorded, is remotely available.

7. The manager of claim 1, wherein the broadcast specific information, once recorded, is available to create an audio campaign.

8. The manager of claim 1, wherein the broadcast specific information, once recorded, is available to create a visual campaign.

9. The manager of claim 1, wherein the broadcast specific information is editable in accordance with the broadcast non-specific information.