Communication based on geographical region

• US 9,888,359 B2
• Filed: 08/04/2017
• Issued: 02/06/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Robert Alan Swirsky
• Original Assignee: Chatterbeak, Inc.
• Inventors: Swirsky, Robert Alan, Spreen, Roger B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Behnamian, Shahriar
• Application Number:
  US15/669,709
• Publication Number:
  US 20170332202A1
• Time in Patent Office: 186 Days
• Field of Search: 4554561, 4554562, 4554563, 4554564, 455456, 4554566, 455457
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/165 Management of the audio stream, e.g. setting of volume, audio stream path
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup

Abstract

In some embodiments, a server establishes communication with user devices; the server receives location data identifying a location of each user device; the server determines a geographical region based on the location of each user device, each geographical region being different for user devices not at the same location; the server receives an audio stream from the first of the user devices; the server determines which of the other user devices are within the geographical region of the first user device; and the server transmits the audio stream to the other user devices that are within the geographical region of the first user device. In some embodiments, the server creates altered audio streams based on the distances between user devices. In some embodiments, the server changes the number of the other user devices that are within the geographical region of the first user device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

establishing, by a server, communication with user devices, the user devices including a first user device and a second user device;

for each user device, receiving, by the server, location data identifying a location of that user device;

receiving, by the server, a first audio stream from the first user device;

determining, by the server, a distance between the first user device and the second user device based on the location data for the first user device and the location data for the second user device;

creating, by the server, an altered audio stream from the first audio stream by mixing the first audio stream with noise based on the distance between the first user device and the second user device; and

transmitting, by the server, the altered audio stream to the second user device.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

creating, by the server, the altered audio stream by mixing the first audio stream with a hiss sound.