Providing content based on location

• US 9,584,607 B2
• Filed: 06/27/2014
• Issued: 02/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Boggs, James Oliver, Griggs, Ryan Christopher
• Primary Examiner(s): TITCOMB, WILLIAM D
• Application Number:
  US14/317,886
• Publication Number:
  US 20150381746A1
• Time in Patent Office: 977 Days
• Field of Search: 715/738
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/60 Network streaming of media packets
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/764 at the destination reformatting of additional data in video clients H04N21/4355
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/63 Routing a service request depending on the request content or context

Abstract

Among other things, we describe a method that includes receiving a content stream that defines elements of media content, determining that an element of content of the content stream is associated with a first location, determining that an electronic device is at a second location proximate to the first location, and in response, making the element of content available on the electronic device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a content stream, the content stream defining elements of media content;

determining that an element of content of the content stream is associated with a first location and a first time range, wherein the first time range represents a time at which an event is scheduled to occur and the first location corresponds to a location at which the event is scheduled to occur;

identifying a location of an electronic device and a time at which the electronic device is at the identified location;

determining that the identified location of the electronic device is proximate to the first location and the identified time is within the first time range; and

in response to determining that the identified location of the electronic device is proximate to the first location and the identified time is within the first time range, making the element of content available on the electronic device.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein making the element of content available on the electronic device comprises displaying, in a user interface on the electronic device, a user interface element indicating that the element of content is available.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein determining that an element of content of the content stream is associated with a first location comprises extracting data describing the first location from an entry of the content stream associated with the element of content.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein determining that the identified location of the electronic device is proximate to the first location comprises

determining that the identified location of the electronic device is within a predetermined distance of the first location.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the content stream comprises an RSS feed and the elements of media content comprise episodes of a podcast each described by entries of the RSS feed.

6. A method comprising:

receiving a content stream, the content stream defining elements of media content;

determining that an element of content of the content stream is associated with a first location and a first time range, wherein the first time range represents a time at which an event is scheduled to occur and the first location corresponds to a location at which the event is scheduled to occur;

identifying a location of an electronic device and a time at which the electronic device is at the identified location;

determining one or both of;

i) that the identified location of the electronic device is not proximate to the first location, and ii) that the identified time is not within the first time range; and

in response to determining one or both of i) and ii), making the element of content unavailable on the electronic device.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein making the element of content unavailable on the electronic device comprises displaying, in a user interface on the electronic device, a user interface element indicating that the element of content is not available to a user of the user interface.

8. A computer program product stored on a storage device and configured to cause an electronic device to perform operations comprising:

receiving a content stream, the content stream defining elements of media content;

determining that an element of content of the content stream is associated with a first location and a first time range, wherein the first time range represents a time at which an event is scheduled to occur and the first location corresponds to a location at which the event is scheduled to occur;

identifying a location of an electronic device and a time at which the electronic device is at the identified location;

determining that the identified location of the electronic device is proximate to the first location and the identified time is within the first time range; and

in response to determining that the identified location of the electronic device is proximate to the first location and the identified time is within the first time range, making the element of content available on the electronic device.

9. The computer program product of claim 8 wherein making the element of content available on the electronic device comprises displaying, in a user interface on the electronic device, a user interface element indicating that the element of content is available.

10. The computer program product of claim 8 wherein determining that an element of content of the content stream is associated with a first location comprises extracting data describing the first location from an entry of the content stream associated with the element of content.

11. The computer program product of claim 8 wherein determining that the identified location of the electronic device is proximate to the first location comprises

determining that the identified location of the electronic device is within a predetermined distance of the first location.

12. The computer program product of claim 8 wherein the content stream comprises an RSS feed and the elements of media content comprise episodes of a podcast each described by entries of the RSS feed.

13. An electronic device comprising:

a first location system configured to determine a current location of the electronic device;

one or more processors configured for operations comprising;

receiving a content stream, the content stream defining elements of media content;

determining that an element of content of the content stream is associated with a first location and a first time range, wherein the first time range represents a time at which an event is scheduled to occur and the first location corresponds to a location at which the event is scheduled to occur;

identifying the current location of the electronic device and a time at which the electronic device is at the identified current location;

determining that the identified current location of the electronic device is proximate to the first location and the identified time is within the first time range; and

in response to determining that the identified current location of the electronic device is proximate to the first location and the identified time is within the first time range, making the element of content available on the electronic device.

14. The electronic device of claim 13 wherein making the element of content available on the electronic device comprises displaying, in a user interface on the electronic device, a user interface element indicating that the element of content is available.

15. The electronic device of claim 13 wherein determining that an element of content of the content stream is associated with a first location comprises extracting data describing the first location from an entry of the content stream associated with the element of content.

16. The electronic device of claim 13 wherein determining that the identified current location of the electronic device is proximate to the first location comprises

determining that the identified current location of the electronic device is within a predetermined distance of the first location.

17. The electronic device of claim 13 wherein the content stream comprises an RSS feed and the elements of media content comprise episodes of a podcast each described by entries of the RSS feed.