Location-based network radio production and distribution system

• US 9,973,560 B2
• Filed: 01/06/2015
• Issued: 05/15/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Soundlink, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Soundlink, Inc.
• Inventors: Andrews, Christopher C.
• Primary Examiner(s): SCOTT, RANDY A
• Application Number:
  US14/590,514
• Publication Number:
  US 20150111606A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,225 Days
• Field of Search: 709217, 709219, 709220, 709221, 4554561, 455455, 455427, 455503
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/61 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/639 using playlists
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9566 URL specific, e.g. using aliases, detecting broken or misspelled links
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/165 Management of the audio stream, e.g. setting of volume, audio stream path
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/762 at the source reformatting of additional data in video distribution servers H04N21/2355
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/432 Content retrieval operation from a local storage medium, e.g. hard-disk details of retrieval of video data and associated meta data in video databases G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/472 End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content reservation or setting reminders, for requesting event notification, for manipulating displayed content end-user interfaces for retrieving video data from a database G06F16/739; network services for supporting unicast streaming H04L65/612
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

A location-based radio system including a storage database and a computing device coupled with the storage database. The computing device includes an application that determines a location of a listener computing device that is accessing a radio station and plays audio content associated with one or more locations on the listener computing device if the location of the listener computing device corresponds to the one or more locations associated with the audio content.

Claims

1. A method of providing a location-based radio station, the method comprising:

a. storing one or more entries on a storage database, wherein each of the entries comprises audio content, a location and a time, and further wherein the time of an entry of the entries is independent of when the audio content of the entry was created;

b. determining a location of a listener computing device that is accessing a radio station and a current time that the radio station is being accessed;

c. selecting the audio content of one of the entries based on if the determined location and the determined current time correspond to the location and the time of the one of the entries; and

d. playing the audio content of the one of the entries on the listener computing device;

wherein the selecting and the playing of the audio content is initiated in response to the determining of the location of the listener computing device and the current time.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising creating the radio station and storing the radio station in a database of stations.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising playing generic audio content on the listener computing device if the location of the listener computing device does not correspond to the one or more locations, wherein the generic audio content is not associated with a location.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the association table is stored on the storage database.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the database of stations is located in the storage database.

6. The method of claim 2, further comprising importing new audio content from an audio recording mechanism or a memory to the storage database.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising associating the new audio content with one or more of the locations and recording the associations in the association table.

8. The method of claim 2, wherein creating the radio station comprises selecting content pool settings of the radio station, wherein the content pool settings comprise one or more parameters the values of which the audio content must meet in order to be played by the radio station.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the parameters comprise one or more selected from the group consisting of the file size of the audio content, the creation time of the audio content, the length of the audio content, the source of the audio content, the title of the audio content, the format of the audio content, the subject of the audio content, the locations associated with the content, the author of the content, genre of the content and the rating of the content.

10. The method of claim 2, wherein each of the locations represent an area having a size.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein creating the radio station comprises selecting location data settings of the radio station, wherein the location data settings indicate a range of sizes that the area of one of the locations must fall within in order for the radio station to play the audio content associated with the one of the locations.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the location data settings indicate priorities between locations having different sized areas, wherein audio content associated with locations having prioritized sizes of areas will be played before other audio content associated with locations having lesser prioritized sizes of areas when the listener device is in those locations.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that when executed by a computing device cause the computing device to perform the method comprising:

a. determining a location of a listener computing device that is accessing a radio station associated with audio content and determining a current time that the radio station is being accessed, wherein each of one or more entries of the audio content is associated with a location and a time, and further wherein the time of an entry of the entries is independent of when the audio content of the entry was created; and

b. selecting and playing one of the entries of the audio content on the listener computing device based on if the determined location and the determined current time correspond to the location and the time associated with the one of the entries of the audio content, wherein the selecting and the playing of the one of the entries is initiated in response to the determining of the location of the listener computing device and the current time.

14. The medium of claim 13, wherein the method further comprises storing the audio content on a storage database and associating the audio content with the one or more locations on an association table.

15. The medium of claim 14, wherein the method further comprises creating a radio station and storing the radio station in a database of stations.

16. The medium of claim 15, wherein the method further comprises playing generic audio content on the listener computing device if the location of the listener computing device does not correspond to the one or more locations, wherein the generic audio content is not associated with a location.

17. The medium of claim 15, wherein the method further comprises importing new audio content from an audio recording mechanism or a memory to the storage database.

18. The medium of claim 17, wherein the method further comprises associating the new audio content with one or more new locations and recording the associations on the association table.

19. The medium of claim 15, wherein creating the radio station comprises selecting content pool settings of the radio station, wherein the content pool settings comprise one or more parameters the values of which the audio content must meet in order to be played by the radio station.

20. The medium of claim 19, wherein the parameters comprise one or more selected from the group consisting of the file size of the audio content, the creation time of the audio content, the length of the audio content, the source of the audio content, the title of the audio content, the format of the audio content, the subject of the audio content, the locations associated with the content, the author of the content, genre of the content and the rating of the content.

21. The medium of claim 15, wherein each of the locations represent an area having a size.

22. The medium of claim 21, wherein creating the radio station comprises selecting location data settings of the radio station, wherein the location data settings indicate a range of sizes that the area of one of the locations must fall within in order for the radio station to play the audio content associated with the one of the locations.

23. The medium of claim 22, wherein the location data settings indicate priorities between locations having different sized areas, wherein audio content associated with locations having prioritized sizes of areas will be played before other audio content associated with locations having lesser prioritizes sizes of areas when the listener device is in those locations.

24. A computing device for providing a location based radio station comprising:

a. a processor; and

b. an application executed by the processor configured to;

i. determine a location of a listener computing device that is accessing a radio station associated with audio content and determine a current time that the radio station is being accessed, wherein each of one or more entries of the audio content is associated with a location and a time, and further wherein the time of an entry of the entries is independent of when the audio content of the entry was created; and

ii. select and play one of the entries of the audio content on the listener computing device based on if the determined location and the determined current time correspond to the location and the time associated with the one of the entries of the audio content, wherein the selecting and the playing of the one of the entries is initiated in response to the determining of the location of the listener computing device and the current time.

25. The device of claim 24, wherein the processor is configured to store the audio content on a storage database and associate the audio content with the one or more locations on an association table.

26. The device of claim 25, wherein the processor is configured to create a radio station and store the radio station in a database of stations.

27. The device of claim 26, wherein the process is configured to play generic audio content to the listener computing device if the location of the listener computing device does not correspond to the one or more locations, wherein the generic audio content is not associated a location.

28. The device of claim 26, wherein the table of associations is stored on the computing device.

29. The device of claim 26, wherein the database of stations is located on computing device.

30. The device of claim 26, wherein the processor is configured to import new audio content from an audio recording mechanism or a memory to the storage database.

31. The device of claim 30, wherein the processor is configured to associate the new audio content with one or more new locations and record the associations on the association table.

32. The device of claim 26, wherein creating the radio station comprises selecting content pool settings of the radio station, wherein the content pool settings comprise one or more parameters the values of which the audio content must meet in order to be played by the radio station.

33. The device of claim 32, wherein the parameters comprise one or more selected from the group consisting of the file size of the audio content, the creation time of the audio content, the length of the audio content, the source of the audio content, the title of the audio content, the format of the audio content, the subject of the audio content, the locations associated with the content, the author of the content, genre of the content and the rating of the content.

34. The device of claim 26, wherein each of the locations represent an area having a size.

35. The device of claim 34, wherein creating the radio station comprises selecting location data settings of the radio station, wherein the location data settings indicate a range of sizes that the area of one of the locations must fall within in order for the radio station to play the audio content associated with the one of the locations.

36. The device of claim 34, wherein the location data settings indicate priorities between locations having different sized areas, wherein audio content associated with locations having prioritized sizes of areas will be play before other audio content associated with locations having lesser prioritizes sizes of areas when the listener device is in those locations.

37. The device of claim 34, wherein the storage database is integrated with the computing device.

38. The device of claim 34, wherein the audio recording mechanism is integrated with the computing device.

39. The device of claim 34, wherein the listener device is integrated with the computing device.

40. The device of claim 39, wherein the listener device and the computing device are integrated within a mobile device.