Method to geo-tag streaming music

• US 8,843,316 B2
• Filed: 01/09/2012
• Issued: 09/23/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Martin, Daryl Joseph, O'Neill, Conor Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): CHEUNG, CALVIN K
• Application Number:
  US13/345,867
• Publication Number:
  US 20130179072A1
• Time in Patent Office: 988 Days
• Field of Search: 348/231.3, 701/409, 701/426, 701/437, 701/487
• US Class Current: 701/487
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/71 Wireless systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/88 Stereophonic broadcast systems multiplex system in general H04J
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4524 involving the geographical location of the client retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; systems specially adapted for using geographical information in broadcast systems H04H60/70; protocols in which the network application is adapted for the location of the user terminal in communication control or processing H04L67/52; services making use of the location of users or terminals in wireless networks H04W4/02; locating users or terminals in wireless networks H04W64/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6582 Data stored in the client, e.g. viewing habits, hardware capabilities, credit card number arrangements where receivers interact with the broadcast H04H20/38
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8113 comprising music, e.g. song in MP3 format
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8352 involving content or source identification data, e.g. Unique Material Identifier [UMID]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/185 by embedding added-value information into content, e.g. geo-tagging

Abstract

Songs titles and song artists or other content received on an HD-radio are cross-referenced to one or more geographic locations where they were heard on the radio by identifying a song title or artist in the HD radio data stream and instructing a global positioning system navigation unit to contemporaneously determine its location. The determined location and song title and/or artist are cross-referenced to each other in a list or database. A touch-sensitive display device is configured to display the location or portion of a route where a listened-to song was heard. Song titles and/or artists can be determined by tactile selection of portions of a route displayed on the map.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a radio-frequency receiver configured to receive a first signal containing information in a data stream;

a received data stream analyzer coupled to the radio-frequency receiver and configured to detect information in said data stream;

a global position system (GPS) coupled to the received data stream analyzer, the GPS configured to determine a geographic location of the radio-frequency receiver responsive to receipt by the GPS of a signal from the received data stream analyzer; and

an information correlator coupled to the received data stream analyzer and the GPS, and configured to correlate information in the data stream to a geographic location;

wherein the information correlator is configured to select a prior geographic location of the radio-frequency receiver from a database of geographic locations whereat song titles were received by the radio-frequency receiver.

2. A system comprising:

a receiver configured to receive a first signal containing information in a data stream;

a received data stream analyzer coupled to the receiver and configured to detect information in said data stream;

a global position system (GPS) coupled to the received data stream analyzer, the GPS configured to determine a geographic location of the receiver responsive to receipt by the GPS of a signal from the received data stream analyzer;

an information correlator coupled to the received data stream analyzer and the GPS, and configured to correlate information in the data stream to a geographic location; and

a display device coupled to the information correlator, wherein the information correlator is configured to display a map on the display device and to display on the displayed map, at least one geographic location where a song was received by the receiver.

3. The system of claim 2, further comprising:

a data storage medium coupled to at least one of the radio-frequency receiver and the received data stream analyzer, the data storage medium configured to store data representing information in the data stream.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the data storage medium comprises a received song title list database.

5. The system of claim 2, further comprising:

a data storage medium coupled to the GPS, the data storage medium configured to store data representing a geographic location of the radio-frequency receiver determined by the GPS responsive to the GPS receipt of a signal from the received data stream analyzer.

6. The system of claim 2, wherein:

the information is comprised of a song title and

the information correlator is configured to correlate a prior geographic location of the radio-frequency receiver to a song title in a received song title database.

7. The system of claim 2, wherein the radio-frequency receiver is a hybrid digital radio receiver.

8. A system comprising:

a radio-frequency receiver configured to receive a first signal containing information in a data stream;

a received data stream analyzer coupled to the radio-frequency receiver and configured to detect information in said data stream;

a global position system (GPS) coupled to the received data stream analyzer, the GPS configured to determine a geographic location of the radio-frequency receiver responsive to receipt by the GPS of a signal from the received data stream analyzer; and

an information correlator coupled to the received data stream analyzer and the GPS, and configured to correlate information in the data stream to a geographic location; and

a display device coupled to the information correlator, wherein the information correlator is configured to display a map on the display device and to display on the displayed map, a plurality of legs of a route, over which the radio-frequency receiver travelled and during which a plurality of songs were received by the radio-frequency receiver.

9. A system comprising:

a receiver configured to receive a first signal containing information in a data stream;

a received data stream analyzer coupled to the receiver and configured to detect information in said data stream;

a global position system (GPS) coupled to the received data stream analyzer, the GPS configured to determine a geographic location of the receiver responsive to receipt by the GPS of a signal from the received data stream analyzer;

an information correlator coupled to the received data stream analyzer and the GPS, and configured to correlate information in the data stream to a geographic location; and

a display device having a touch-sensitive screen, the display device being coupled to the information correlator, which is configured to display a map on the display device and to display on the displayed map, a plurality of legs of a route, over which the receiver travelled and during which a plurality of songs were received by the receiver, the touch-sensitive screen being configured to be responsive to a tactile input above a leg of the route displayed on the display device and, output a route leg selection signal to the information correlator, the information correlator thereafter effectuating the display of a title of a song received by the receiver while the receiver was located along the leg selected by the tactile input.