System and method for adaptive media playback based on destination

• US 9,390,757 B2
• Filed: 05/04/2015
• Issued: 07/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group), Kia Corp.
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Shahraray, Behzad, Basso, Andrea, Begeja, Lee, Gibbon, David C., Liu, Zhu, Renger, Bernard S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Ly, Anh
• Application Number:
  US14/703,073
• Publication Number:
  US 20150235671A1
• Time in Patent Office: 435 Days
• Field of Search: 386/248
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3697 Output of additional, non-guidance related information, e.g. low fuel level G01C21/3679 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0261 based on user location
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/005 Reproducing at a different information rate from the information rate of recording for television signals H04N5/783
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/783 Adaptations for reproducing at a rate different from the recording rate

Abstract

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer readable-media for adaptive media playback based on destination. The method for adaptive media playback comprises determining one or more destinations, collecting media content that is relevant to or describes the one or more destinations, assembling the media content into a program, and outputting the program. In various embodiments, media content may be advertising, consumer-generated, based on real-time events, based on a schedule, or assembled to fit within an estimated available time. Media content may be assembled using an adaptation engine that selects a plurality of media segments that fit in the estimated available time, orders the plurality of media segments, alters at least one of the plurality of media segments to fit the estimated available time, if necessary, and creates a playlist of selected media content containing the plurality of media segments.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

generating, from media content, a media presentation having a duration in accordance with an estimated time to travel to a destination, wherein the media presentation is altered so that a portion of the media presentation is contextually relevant to an anticipated location along a route to the destination when the portion of the media presentation is played to yield an altered media presentation;

detecting, while playing the altered media presentation, a travel path change;

generating an updated estimated time to travel to the destination based on the travel path change;

modifying the altered media presentation to conform to the updated estimated time; and

inserting an advertisement into the altered media presentation based on a direction of travel.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining a current location associated with a device; and

wherein the estimated time is a time for the device to travel to the destination.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the device is a same device used to play the altered media presentation.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the estimated time is determined based on one of an input, a route, a speed, and a trajectory between a current location and the destination.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the altered media presentation is presented using one of video, Internet content, text, sound files, odor, and Braille.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the media content is retrieved via a wireless network.

7. A system comprising:

a processor; and

a computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored which, when executed by the processor, result in the processor performing operations comprising;

generating, from media content, a media presentation having a duration in accordance with an estimated time to travel to a destination, wherein the media presentation is altered so that a portion of the media presentation is contextually relevant to an anticipated location along a route to the destination when the portion of the media presentation is played to yield an altered media presentation;

detecting, while playing the altered media presentation, a travel path change;

generating an updated estimated time to travel to the destination based on the travel path change;

modifying the altered media presentation to conform to the updated estimated time while playing the media presentation; and

inserting an advertisement into the altered media presentation based on a direction of travel.

8. The system of claim 7, the computer-readable storage medium having additional instructions stored which, when executed by the processor, result in the processor performing operations comprising:

determining a current location associated with a device; and

wherein the estimated time is a time for the device to travel to the destination.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the device is a same device used to play the altered media presentation.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein the estimated time is determined based on one of an input, a route, a speed, and a trajectory between a current location and the destination.

11. The system of claim 7, wherein the altered media presentation is presented using one of video, Internet content, text, sound files, odor, and Braille.

12. The system of claim 7, wherein the media content is retrieved via a wireless network.

13. A computer-readable storage device having instructions stored which, when executed by a computing device, result in the computing device performing operations comprising:

generating, from media content, a media presentation having a duration in accordance with an estimated time to travel to a destination, wherein the media presentation is altered so that a portion of the media presentation is contextually relevant to an anticipated location along a route to the destination when the portion of the media presentation is played to yield an altered media presentation;

detecting, while playing the altered media presentation, a travel path change;

generating an updated estimated time to travel to the destination based on the travel path change;

modifying the altered media presentation to conform to the updated estimated time while playing the media presentation; and

inserting an advertisement into the altered media presentation based on a direction of travel.

14. The computer-readable storage device of claim 13, having additional instructions stored which, when executed by the computing device, result in the computing device performing operations comprising:

determining a current location associated with a device; and

wherein the estimated time is a time for the device to travel to the destination.

15. The computer-readable storage device of claim 14, wherein the device is a same device used to play the altered media presentation.

16. The computer-readable storage device of claim 13, wherein the estimated time is determined based on one of an input, a route, a speed, and a trajectory between a current location and the destination.

17. The computer-readable storage device of claim 13, wherein the altered media presentation is presented using one of video, Internet content, text, sound files, odor, and Braille.

18. The computer-readable storage device of claim 13, wherein the media content is retrieved via a wireless network.