Method, Devices, and System for Delayed Usage of Identified Content

• US 20120036437A1
• Filed: 08/04/2010
• Published: 02/09/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/04/2010
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Alberth, William P. Jr., Hede, William
• Application Number:
  US12/850,514
• Publication Number:
  US 20120036437A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/727
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72448 with means for adapting the functionality of the device according to specific conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72451 according to schedules, e.g. using calendar applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10

Abstract

A method (300) and portable electronic device (100) can be configured to delay the presentation of content (103) until a user (102) is available. The portable electronic device (100) can received, from a user interface (204), a user indication identifying content (103) to be used at a later time. One or more modules (208) or processors (201) within the device can then monitor one or more device parameters to determine an evaluative user availability state. When the evaluative user availability state is determined, the modules (208) and processors (201) can be configured to present the content (103) on the user interface (204). The content (103) can be presented audibly, visibly, or both.

Claims

1. A method in a portable electronic device of delaying presentation of content, comprising:

receiving from a user interface a user indication identifying content to be used at a later time;

monitoring with one or more processors one or more device parameters to determine an evaluative user availability state; and

where the evaluative user availability state is determined, presenting the content on the user interface.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more device parameters comprise one or more of device settings, device application settings, device location, proximity information relating to known devices, device environmental information received from interface components of the portable electronic device, and combinations thereof.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the monitoring comprises comparing the one or more device parameters with a predetermined device condition stored in a memory, wherein at least one of the one or more device parameters comprises voice input from a user, wherein the predetermined device condition comprises at least an absence of voice input.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

continuing to monitor for the voice input after the presenting the content commences; and

pausing the presenting the content when the voice input is detected.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the monitoring comprises comparing the one or more device parameters with a predetermined device condition stored in a memory, wherein at least one of the one or more device parameters comprises a change in device location, wherein the predetermined device condition comprises the change exceeding a predetermined threshold.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the at least another of the one or more device parameters comprises an event stored in a calendaring application.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

storing a content indicator in a queue in a memory upon receiving the user indication;

evaluating a travel time to a destination based upon the event and the change in device location; and

selecting an indicator from the queue when a content length of the content is capable of presentation during the travel time.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing a content indicator in a queue in a memory upon receiving the user indication; and

removing the content indicator from the queue after the presenting the content on the user interface.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising retrieving a content update prior to the presenting the content on the user interface.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising selecting an indicator from the queue based upon the one or more device parameters.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the presenting the content comprises one or more of delivering the content visually on the user interface or delivering the content audibly through the user interface.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising presenting a notification on the user interface that the content will be presented upon the one or more device parameters correspond to the evaluative user availability state, wherein the presenting the content occurs only upon receipt of an affirmative user indication in response to the presenting the notification.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the content includes an advertisement, wherein the presenting the content comprises presenting the advertisement partway through the content.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the presenting the content comprises delivering the content to a device other than the portable electronic device.

15. A portable electronic device, comprising:

a user interface;

one or more processors operable with the user interface;

a content identification manager configured to receive a user indication of content to be presented at a future time and to store an identifier corresponding to the content in a queue in a memory;

one or more device monitors, wherein the one or more processors are configured to monitor device parameters with the one or more device monitors; and

a user availability detector configured to evaluate monitored device parameters to detect a user availability event;

wherein the one or more processors are configured to present the content on the user interface when the user availability detector detects the user availability event.

16. The portable electronic device of claim 15, wherein the one or more device monitors comprise one or more of a camera, a microphone, a location detector, a calendaring application, an accelerometer, a touch input, user preferences stored in the memory, and combinations thereof.

17. The portable electronic device of claim 15, wherein the user availability detector is configured for selective deactivation by a user.

18. The portable electronic device of claim 15, wherein the content comprises one or more of an electronic mail communication, a text message communication, a multimedia message communication, a website, or a news feed.

19. The portable electronic device of claim 15, further comprising a text to speech module, wherein the one or more processors are configured to present the content by causing the text to speech module to read the content.

20. The portable electronic device of claim 15, further comprising a queue selector configured to select a stored identifier for presentation based upon the device parameters.