Audio presentation of condensed spatial contextual information

• US 9,032,042 B2
• Filed: 06/27/2011
• Issued: 05/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Cartier, Kenn, Ofek, Eyal, Gerson, Elad, Bar-Zeev, Avi
• Primary Examiner(s): ZHANG, SHIRLEY X
• Application Number:
  US13/169,021
• Publication Number:
  US 20120331093A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,415 Days
• Field of Search: 709/217, 715/751, 715/757, 715/848, 715/850, 715/851, 701/400, 701/418, 701/419
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 17/00 Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific functions information retrieval, database structures or file system structures therefor G06F16/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0259 based on store location
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0261 based on user location
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0269 based on user profile or attribute
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

Aggregated data associated with a geographic area may be obtained. The aggregated data may be dynamically distilled to obtain a presentation set of data based on a dynamically changing geographic location associated with the geographic area. A transmission of a stream of personalized audio data that is based on the presentation set of data may be initiated, via a device processor, to a receiving device associated with a user that is associated with the dynamically changing geographic location.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a presentation management system at least partially embodied via executable instructions stored on a machine readable storage device, the presentation management system including;

at least one device processor configured to execute at least a portion of the executable instructions stored on the machine readable storage device;

a locale determination component that determines a present geographic locale associated with a user;

a crowd source data component that receives a request of the user to contribute a user audio experience for association with a current geographic location and direction of movement associated with the user;

an aggregation component that obtains a set of aggregated data associated with the present geographic locale;

a distilling component that dynamically distills the set of aggregated data to obtain a presentation set of data based on proximity information indicating a relevance of the aggregated data associated with entities within a geographic area associated with the present geographic locale;

a personalization component that generates a personalized set of data based on the presentation set, one or more attributes associated with the user, and a dynamically changing geographic location associated with the user; and

a streaming audio component that initiates, via a device processor, a transmission of a stream of personalized audio data to a receiving device associated with the user based on the personalized set of data.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the crowd source data component obtains crowd source data associated with the present geographic locale, the crowd source data based on information that includes one or more of;

a comment received from a person, a description received from a person, an audio file received from a person, a description obtained from an electronic source, an audio file obtained from an electronic source, or an attribute value obtained from an electronic source,

wherein the aggregation component obtains the set of aggregated data associated with the present geographic locale based at least in part on the crowd source data.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

an orientation determination component that obtains one or more orientation attributes indicating a configurational orientation associated with the user,

wherein the aggregation component obtains the set of aggregated data associated with the present geographic locale based at least in part on the one or more orientation attributes and based on stored audio clips, or via automatic synthesis based on one or more of published descriptions, reviews, social networking sites, or comment tags associated with imagery.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the distilling component dynamically distills the set of aggregated data to obtain the presentation set of data based on the proximity information indicating the relevance of the aggregated data associated with entities within the geographic area associated with the present geographic locale, based on a history of relevance indicators associated with the proximity information.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the personalization component generates the personalized set of data based on the presentation set, the one or more attributes associated with the user, and a direction of movement based on the dynamically changing geographic location associated with the user.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the personalization component generates the personalized set of data based on the presentation set, the one or more attributes associated with the user, and one or more of;

a repetition of tokens, an ordering of tokens, a selection of words, or a determination of words associated with a context of tokens,

based on a ranking function associated with the set of aggregated data,

wherein the tokens represent elements of the aggregated data,

wherein the words are descriptively associated with the aggregated data.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the personalization component generates the personalized set of data based on the presentation set and one or more of;

a social network associated with the user, a context network associated with the user, a social network associated with one or more entities associated with portions of the set of aggregated data, or a context network associated with one or more entities associated with portions of the set of aggregated data.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the streaming audio component initiates the transmission of the stream of personalized audio data to the receiving device associated with the user based on a binaural format of transmission, based on the personalized set of data and the dynamically changing geographic location associated with the user.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the streaming audio component initiates the transmission of the stream of personalized audio data to the receiving device associated with the user based on a transmission format that includes dynamic variation of a sound volume of a first entity portion of the stream of personalized audio data, based on a location of a first entity geographically and proximally relative to the dynamically changing geographic location associated with the user, based on the personalized set of data.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein:

the dynamic variation of the sound volume of the first entity portion of the stream of personalized audio data includes variation based on listener perception of the sound volume, based on the location of the first entity geographically and proximally relative to the dynamically changing geographic location associated with the user, based on the personalized set of data.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the streaming audio component initiates the transmission of the stream of personalized audio data to the receiving device associated with the user based on a transmission format that includes dynamic variation of a directional sound attribute of a second entity portion of the stream of personalized audio data, based on a location of a second entity geographically and directionally relative to the dynamically changing geographic location associated with the user, based on the personalized set of data.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein:

the dynamic variation of the directional sound attribute of the second entity portion of the stream of personalized audio data includes variation based on listener perception of sound emanating from the second entity geographically and directionally relative to the dynamically changing geographic location associated with the user.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the aggregation component obtains the set of aggregated data associated with the present geographic locale, at least a portion of the set of aggregated data including aggregated data in a format other than an audio data format,

the distilling component dynamically distills the at least a portion of the set of aggregated data, from the format other than an audio data format, to an audio data format,

the locale determination component determines the present geographic locale associated with the user, based on locale information received from the user, other than locale information associated with a current physical location of the user, and

the personalization component generates the personalized set of data based on the presentation set, one or more attributes associated with the user, and one or more of;

a dynamically changing geographic location associated with locale information received from the user, based on a virtual movement of the user through the present geographic locale, or

a dynamically changing geographic location associated with an actual movement of the user through the present geographic locale.

14. A method comprising:

obtaining aggregated data associated with a geographic area;

dynamically distilling the aggregated data to obtain a presentation set of data based on a dynamically changing geographic location associated with the geographic area;

initiating, via a device processor, a transmission of a stream of personalized audio data that is based on the presentation set of data to a receiving device associated with a user that is associated with the dynamically changing geographic location, using a binaural format of the personalized data that is configured to provide perceptions to the user of sounds emanating from various directions relative to the user, or from various locations relative to the user;

receiving a request to share a user audio experience with one or more other listeners; and

initiating a transmission of the shared user audio experience to the one or more other listeners.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein:

the aggregated data is based at least in part on crowd source data that is associated with a geographic locale associated with the dynamically changing geographic location, the crowd source data based on information obtained based on one or more of;

a comment received from a person, a description received from a person, an audio file received from a person, a description obtained from an electronic source, an audio file obtained from an electronic source, or an attribute value obtained from an electronic source.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein:

dynamically distilling the set of aggregated data includes dynamically distilling the set of aggregated data to obtain the presentation set of data based on proximity information indicating a relevance of the aggregated data associated with entities within the geographic area.

17. A computer program product tangibly embodied on a machine readable storage device and including executable code that is configured to cause at least one data processing apparatus to:

receive, via a device processor, a user request for a streaming transmission of personalized audio data that is based on a personalized set of data associated with a user associated with a receiving device and aggregated data associated with a geographic area;

send a device request that includes at least one device identification, a user identification associated with the user, an indicator of a dynamically changing location associated with the user, and request information indicating the user request for the streaming transmission;

initiate an output of the streaming transmission of the personalized audio data including a presentation set of data that is based on dynamically distilled aggregated data associated with a geographic locale that is associated with the dynamically changing location associated with the user; and

initiate transmission of a user audio experience for association with the current geographic location and direction of movement associated with the user.

18. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein the executable code is configured to cause the at least one data processing apparatus to:

initiate the output of the streaming transmission of the personalized audio data based on a binaural format of streaming transmission.

19. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein the executable code is configured to cause the at least one data processing apparatus to:

receive a user request to share a user audio experience with one or more other listeners; and

initiate transmission of the user request to share the user audio experience with the one or more other listeners.

20. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein the executable code is configured to cause the at least one data processing apparatus to:

receive a user request to contribute the user audio experience for association with the current geographic location and direction of movement associated with the user; and

initiate transmission of the user request to contribute the user audio experience for association with the current geographic location and direction of movement associated with the user.