Adaptive predictive caching systems and methods

• US 10,536,749 B2
• Filed: 03/29/2019
• Issued: 01/14/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rhapsody International Inc. (MelodyVR Group Plc)
• Original Assignee: Rhapsody International Inc. (MelodyVR Group Plc)
• Inventors: Eccles, Matthew James, Ringer, Brian, Cao, Heng, Murphy, Kenneth W., Wood, Darryl William, Welliver, Gregory
• Primary Examiner(s): Chokshi, Pinkal R
• Application Number:
  US16/369,329
• Publication Number:
  US 20190306574A1
• Time in Patent Office: 291 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3415 Dynamic re-routing, e.g. recalculating the route when the user deviates from calculated route or after detecting real-time traffic data or accidents
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3476 using point of interest [POI] information, e.g. a route passing visible POIs
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3484 Personalized, e.g. from learned user behaviour or user-defined profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/487 using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/686 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title or artist information, time, location or usage information, user ratings
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/687 using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2187 Live feed
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23106 involving caching operations prefetching while addressing of a memory level in which the access to the desired data or data block requires associative addressing means within memory systems or architectures G06F12/0862; caching at an intermediate stage in a data network H04L67/568
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23424 involving splicing one content stream with another content stream, e.g. for inserting or substituting an advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2353 specifically adapted to content descriptors, e.g. coding, compressing or processing of metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2387 Stream processing in response to a playback request from an end-user, e.g. for trick-play
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25841 involving the geographical location of the client retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; arrangements for identifying locations of receiving stations in broadcast systems H04H60/51; location of the user terminal in data switching networks 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 21/26275 for distributing content or additional data in a staggered manner, e.g. repeating movies on different channels in a time-staggered manner in a near video on demand system
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4126 The peripheral being portable, e.g. PDAs or mobile phones
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41422 located in transportation means, e.g. personal vehicle arrangements specially adapted for transportation systems in broadcast systems H04H20/62
• 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 21/458 Scheduling content for creating a personalised stream, e.g. by combining a locally stored advertisement with an incoming stream; Updating operations, e.g. for OS modules ; time-related management operations arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast or during the distribution H04H20/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6181 involving transmission via a mobile phone network arrangements for providing broadcast or conference services to substation in data switching networks in combination with wireless systems H04L12/189; wireless uplink channel access H04W74/004
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8456 by decomposing the content in the time domain, e.g. in time segments

Abstract

Media-presentation-conscious scheduling protocols are disclosed that may associate a geographical location containing a thing with an identifier of the thing and allow later-found media works that pertain to the identifier to be presented at a mobile device before the device reaches a waypoint of the location. Alternatively or additionally, such protocols may respond to a predicted connectivity impairment of a traveling device by obtaining supplemental content to mitigate a predicted capacity shortage. Alternatively or additionally, such protocols may interrupt live stream content, insert on-demand content, and later return to live stream presentation automatically.

Claims

1. A media-presentation-conscious scheduling method comprising:

obtaining by transistor-based circuitry of a mobile device a first itinerary associated with said mobile device, wherein said mobile device comprises a passenger vehicle to which said first itinerary pertains;

obtaining by transistor-based circuitry of said mobile device a first streaming playable content sequence including first and second media works;

obtaining by transistor-based circuitry of said mobile device a modified itinerary associated with said mobile device having undergone a geographical change to a programmed navigational route;

obtaining by transistor-based circuitry of said mobile device a prediction that said modified itinerary will encounter a first connectivity impairment interval conditionally as a result of said geographical change to said programmed navigational route;

triggering a determination of a queued content total duration that is at least partly based on a duration of said first and second media works;

automatically sequencing supplemental content into an onboard presentation queue with said second media work as a conditional response to a predicted download capacity shortage partly based on said geographical change to said programmed navigational route and partly based on a first indication of said first connectivity impairment interval in relation to a queued content total duration, wherein said connectivity impairment interval has a predicted duration signifying how long content arriving to said passenger vehicle via a broadcast radio signal is predicted to be unavailable and greater than one minute;

automatically updating said a playable content sequence of said onboard presentation queue as a conditional response to obtaining a third media work by inserting said third media work before said first media work and so that a complete presentation of said third media work is scheduled to occur before said mobile device reaches a first waypoint of said programmed navigational route, wherein said third media work is preferred over said first media work partly based on a mode of transporting said mobile device and partly based on a digital expression that identifies a physical feature, wherein said geographical change to said programmed navigational route indicates a physical detour via said first waypoint toward said physical feature;

causing a presentation of said preferred third media work before said mobile device reaches said first waypoint; and

presenting at said mobile device said second media work and said supplemental content after said preferred third media work and after said mobile device reaches said first waypoint according to said onboard presentation queue.

2. The media-presentation-conscious scheduling method of claim 1, wherein said obtaining said modified itinerary associated with said mobile device having undergone said geographical change to said programmed navigational route comprises:

modifying a prior itinerary as a conditional response to user input received via said mobile device in regard to said geographical change to said navigational route.

3. The media-presentation-conscious scheduling method of claim 1, further comprising:

obtaining an association between a map region corresponding to a geographical location containing said physical feature and said digital expression that identifies said physical feature in response to said physical feature having been named in a search performed via said mobile device.

4. A media-presentation-conscious scheduling method comprising:

obtaining by transistor-based circuitry of a mobile device a first itinerary associated with said mobile device, wherein said mobile device comprises a passenger vehicle to which said first itinerary pertains;

obtaining by transistor-based circuitry of said mobile device a first playable streaming content sequence including first and second media works;

obtaining by transistor-based circuitry of said mobile device a modified itinerary associated with said mobile device having undergone a geographical change to a programmed navigational route;

obtaining by transistor-based circuitry of said mobile device a prediction that said modified itinerary will encounter a first connectivity impairment interval conditionally as a result of said geographical change to said programmed navigational route;

triggering a determination of a queued content total duration that is at least partly based on a duration of said first and second media works;

automatically obtaining supplemental content in an onboard presentation queue with said second media work as a conditional response to a predicted download capacity shortage partly based on said geographical change to said programmed navigational route and partly based on a first indication of said first connectivity impairment interval in relation to a queued content total duration, wherein said connectivity impairment interval has a predicted duration signifying how long content arriving to said passenger vehicle via a radio signal is predicted to be unavailable and greater than one minute;

automatically updating a playable content sequence of said onboard presentation queue as a conditional response to obtaining a third media work by inserting said third media work before said first media work and so that a presentation of said third media work is scheduled to occur before said mobile device reaches a first waypoint of said programmed navigational route, wherein said third media work is preferred over said first media work partly based on a mode of transporting said mobile device and partly based on a digital expression that identifies a physical feature, wherein said geographical change to said programmed navigational route indicates a physical detour via said first waypoint toward said physical feature; and

causing a presentation at said mobile device of at least said second media work, said preferred third media work, and said supplemental content according to said onboard presentation queue.

5. The media-presentation-conscious scheduling method of claim 4, wherein said automatically obtaining said supplemental content in said onboard presentation queue with said second media work as said conditional response to said predicted download capacity shortage partly based on said geographical change to said programmed navigational route and partly based on said first indication of said first connectivity impairment interval in relation to said queued content total duration comprises:

indicating a duration within an order of magnitude of an hour during which no wireless broadcast radio data can be received by said mobile device as a component of said first connectivity impairment interval.

6. The media-presentation-conscious scheduling method of claim 4, wherein said automatically obtaining said supplemental content in said onboard presentation queue with said second media work as said conditional response to said predicted download capacity shortage partly based on said geographical change to said programmed navigational route and partly based on said first indication of said first connectivity impairment interval in relation to said queued content total duration comprises:

indicating a duration within an order of magnitude of a minute during which no wireless streaming data can be received by said mobile device as a component of said first connectivity impairment interval.

7. The media-presentation-conscious scheduling method of claim 4, wherein said connectivity impairment interval has a predicted duration greater than five minutes, wherein a decision to obtain said supplemental content in said onboard presentation queue results from a specific indication that said first connectivity impairment interval is long enough to cause said onboard presentation queue to empty before a predicted end of said first connectivity impairment interval.

8. The media-presentation-conscious scheduling method of claim 4, wherein said connectivity impairment interval is estimated based on how long said mobile device is predicted to receive only content arriving to said mobile device as a frequency modulated radio signal.

9. The media-presentation-conscious scheduling method of claim 4, wherein said connectivity impairment interval is estimated based on how long said mobile device is predicted to be able to receive only content received via a wireless communication signal transmitted from a cellular communication tower.

10. The media-presentation-conscious scheduling method of claim 4, wherein said obtaining said modified itinerary associated with said mobile device having undergone said geographical change to said programmed navigational route comprises:

modifying a prior itinerary as a conditional response to user input received at said mobile device in regard to said geographical change to said programmed navigational route wherein said implicit indication comprises a creation or modification of a calendar event via an app resident in said mobile device.

11. The media-presentation-conscious scheduling method of claim 4, wherein said predicted download capacity shortage is partly based on a motor vehicle bearing said mobile device being a travel mode of a particular segment of said first itinerary and partly based on a behavioral prediction pertaining to a user of said mobile device.

12. The media-presentation-conscious scheduling method of claim 4, wherein said mobile device is aboard a motor vehicle to which said first itinerary also pertains and wherein said obtaining said modified itinerary associated with said mobile device having undergone said geographical change to said programmed navigational route comprises:

obtaining said geographical change to said programmed navigational route in a real-time response to a natural language expression describing a physical feature having been added to a calendar event recorded in said mobile device, wherein said geographical change to said programmed navigational route indicates a detour toward said physical feature.

13. The media-presentation-conscious scheduling method of claim 4, wherein said connectivity impairment interval is estimated based on how long said mobile device is expected to be unable to receive any content downloaded via a broadcast radio signal.

14. The media-presentation-conscious scheduling method of claim 4, wherein said predicted download capacity shortage is determined at least partly based on a predicted duration exceeding a threshold that is greater than ten minutes and wherein said connectivity impairment interval is estimated based on how long said mobile device is expected to be unable to receive any content downloaded via a frequency modulated radio signal.

15. A media-presentation-conscious scheduling method comprising:

obtaining by transistor-based circuitry of a mobile device a first itinerary associated with said mobile device, wherein said mobile device comprises a passenger vehicle to which said first itinerary pertains;

obtaining a first playable content sequence including first and second media works;

obtaining a modified itinerary associated with said mobile device having undergone a geographical change to a programmed navigational route;

obtaining a prediction that said modified itinerary will encounter a first connectivity impairment interval conditionally as a result of said geographical change to said programmed navigational route;

triggering a determination of a queued content total duration that is at least partly based on a duration of said first and second media works;

automatically obtaining supplemental content in an onboard presentation queue with said second media work as a conditional response to a predicted download capacity shortage partly based on said geographical change to said programmed navigational route and partly based on a first indication of said first connectivity impairment interval in relation to a queued content total duration, wherein said first indication of said first connectivity impairment interval signifies how long content arriving to said passenger vehicle via a wireless signal is predicted to be unavailable and greater than one minute;

automatically updating a playable content sequence of said onboard presentation queue as a conditional response to obtaining a third media work by inserting said third media work before said first media work and so that a complete presentation of said third media work is scheduled to occur before said mobile device reaches a first waypoint of said programmed navigational route, wherein said third media work is preferred over said first media work partly based on a mode of transporting said mobile device and partly based on a digital expression that identifies a physical feature, and wherein said geographical change to said programmed navigational route indicates a physical detour via said first waypoint toward said physical feature;

causing a presentation of said third media work before said mobile device reaches said first waypoint of said programmed navigational route; and

causing a presentation at said mobile device of at least said second media work and said supplemental content after said third media work according to said onboard presentation queue.

16. The media-presentation-conscious scheduling method of claim 15, wherein said mobile device is aboard a motor vehicle to which said first itinerary also pertains and wherein said obtaining said modified itinerary associated with said mobile device having undergone said geographical change to said programmed navigational route comprises:

obtaining said geographical change to said programmed navigational route as a real-time response to said digital expression that identifies said physical feature having been added to a calendar event recorded in said mobile device, whereain said digital expression that identifies said physical feature comprises a natural language expression.

17. The media-presentation-conscious scheduling method of claim 15, wherein said first connectivity impairment interval is estimated based on how long said mobile device is predicted to be able to receive only content received via a wireless communication signal transmitted from a communication satellite.

18. The media-presentation-conscious scheduling method of claim 15, wherein sequencing said supplemental content into said onboard presentation queue with said second media work as an automatic and conditional response to a predicted download capacity shortage comprises:

obtaining an indication partly based on queue capacity and partly based on download capacity that said mobile device is predicted to encounter a download capacity shortage; and

downloading low definition playable data in lieu of corresponding high definition playable data until said download capacity shortage is abated.

19. The media-presentation-conscious scheduling method of claim 15, wherein said obtaining said modified itinerary associated with said mobile device having undergone said geographical change to said programmed navigational route comprises:

modifying a prior itinerary as a conditional response to an implicit indication in regard to said geographical change to said programmed navigational route wherein said implicit indication comprises one or more Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates of said mobile device indicating a suggested detour having been taken as said physical detour via said first waypoint toward said physical feature.

20. The media-presentation-conscious scheduling method of claim 15, wherein said connectivity impairment interval corresponds to an interval of time during which no broadcast signal is predicted to be available to said mobile device.