Intelligent audio and visual media handling
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsLisa Seacat DeLuca, Steven M. Miller
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Abstract
Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for transmitting data. A first device defining a preferred language may be configured to receive a media stream from a second device. The second device may be configured to make public broadcasts in a plurality of languages to the first device and other devices. The second device interrupts the media stream at the first device only during transmission of the public broadcast in the preferred language.
Claims20
A method for transmitting data, comprising:
- transmitting a media stream to a device, wherein a first language is preselected as a preferred language for the device;
- transmitting a message in at least the first language and a second language;
- and
- interrupting the media stream to the device only during transmission of the message in the first language.
A method for transmitting data, comprising:
- transmitting a media stream to a device, wherein the media stream comprises data in a first language;
- transmitting a message in at least the first language and a second language;
- and
- interrupting the media stream to the device only during transmission of the message in the first language.
A computer readable storage medium comprising a program product which, when executed is configured to perform an operation for transmitting data, comprising:
- transmitting a media stream to a device, wherein a first language is preselected as a preferred language for the device;
- transmitting a message in at least the first language and a second language;
- and
- interrupting the media stream to the device only during transmission of the message in the first language.
A system, comprising:
- at least one first device, wherein a first language is preselected as a preferred language of the first device;
- and
- a second device configured to:
- transmit a media stream to the first device;
- transmit a message in at least the first language and a second language;
- and
- interrupt the media stream to the first device only during transmission of the message in the first language.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.