Synthetic radio channel utilizing mobile telephone networks and VOIP

• US 8,515,479 B1
• Filed: 11/15/2012
• Issued: 08/20/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: OnAir3G Holdings Ltd.
• Original Assignee: OnAir3G Holdings Ltd.
• Inventors: Vasilevsky, Andrey
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Hai V
• Application Number:
  US13/677,447
• Time in Patent Office: 278 Days
• Field of Search: 455/19
• US Class Current: 455/519
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1053 IP private branch exchange [PBX] functionality entities or arrangements circuit switched PBXs H04M3/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/2094 Proximity
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/185 wireless packet-switched
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2242/14 with services dependent on location where the service is an information service H04M2242/15; services independent of location H04M3/42229
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42008 Systems for anonymous communication between parties, e.g. by use of disposal contact identifiers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4878 Advertisement messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/56 Arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities video conference systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/568 audio processing specific to telephonic conferencing, e.g. spatial distribution, mixing of participants echo suppression in two-way loud-speaking telephone systems H04M9/02; sound field processing per se H04S7/30
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds

Abstract

A system for generating a synthetic radio channel, including a server in communication with a plurality of communications devices that provide their geolocation information to the server; the server receiving user voice data; the server associating each communication device with a group of communication devices within a geographic proximity radius to each one; the server generating a synthetic customized voice channel for each communication device comprising a stream of chunks of voice data generated from the voice data provided by the communication devices of the group of mobile communication devices; and the server dynamically adjusting the geographic proximity radius and which communication devices associated with the group based on movement of the communication device, a number of communication devices in the group and/or movement of other communication devices in the group.

Claims

1. A system for generating a synthetic radio channel, comprising:

a server receiving geolocation information and user voice data from a plurality of mobile communication devices;

the server associating each mobile communication device with a group of mobile communication devices within a geographic proximity radius from the each mobile communication device;

the server generating a synthetic customized voice channel for each mobile communication device, the voice channel delivering a stream of chunks of voice data generated from the voice data provided by at least some of the mobile communication devices of the group,

each chunk being at least several seconds long; and

the server dynamically adjusting (a) the geographic proximity radius for each mobile communication device, and (b) which mobile communication devices are associated with the group based on (i) movement of mobile communication devices that belong to the group, and (ii) a number of mobile communication devices in the group.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the server dynamically adjusts a length of at least some chunks based on (1) the movement of each mobile communication device, (2) a number of mobile communication devices in the group or (3) a number of users in the group who are talking at any given time.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the server provides advertising to at least some mobile communication devices based on geographic location of the mobile communication devices.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the server provides advertising to at least some mobile communication devices based on a historic pattern of movement of the at least some mobile communication devices.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the group is defined, at least in part, based on any of (a) social network association of users of the mobile communication devices, (b) telephone contact information from the user'"'"'s mobile communication device, and (c) email contact information from the user'"'"'s mobile communication device or his email client.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the server provides advertising to at least some mobile communication devices based on profiles of their users that are maintained on the server.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein at least some mobile communications devices are operating in a demo mode that does not permit their users to generate the voice data for channels for other mobile communications devices.

8. The system of claim 1, further comprising a database of chunks of voice data.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the database includes private voice messages intended only for specified mobile communications devices.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the server generates synthetic voice channels that can only be received by specific subscribers.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the geographic proximity radius of at least some of the mobile communication devices is determined based on proximity to a mobile base station.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein at least some of the mobile communications devices can send, through the server, private messages to any device connected to a mobile network.

13. A method for generating a synthetic radio channel, comprising:

receiving geolocation information and voice data from a plurality of communication devices;

associating each communication device with a group of communication devices within a geographic proximity radius to each communication device;

generating a synthetic customized voice channel for each communication device, the voice channel delivering a stream of chunks of voice data generated from the voice data provided by the communication devices of the group of communication devices,

wherein each chunk is at least several seconds long; and

dynamically adjusting (a) the geographic proximity radius for each communication device, and (b) which communication devices are associated with the group based on (i) movement of the communication devices that belong to the group, and (ii) a number of communication devices in the group.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising dynamically adjusting a length of at least some chunks based on (1) the movement of at least some of the communication devices or (2) a number of communication devices in the group.

15. The method of claim 13, further comprising providing advertising to at least some communication devices based on the geolocation information.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the group is defined, at least in part, based on any of (a) social network association of users of the mobile communication devices, (b) telephone contact information from the user'"'"'s mobile communication device, and (c) email contact information from the user'"'"'s mobile communication device or his email client.

17. The method of claim 13, further comprising providing advertising to at least some communication devices based on profiles of their users that are maintained on the server.

18. The method of claim 13, further comprising generating synthetic voice channels that can only be received by specific subscribers.

19. The method of claim 13, further comprising altering the chunks to (a) disguise a voice of a subscriber, (b) remove speech defects, (c) shorten a duration of the voice data chunks, or (d) to moderate the voice data chunks to remove specified material.

20. A computer program product embodied in a non-transitory storage medium containing computer code for performing the steps of claim 13.