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US 2016/0097646 A1Published application
Content presentation based on travel patterns
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsOmar Alonso, Travis Alexander Gingerich
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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsOmar Alonso, Travis Alexander Gingerich
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A user who is traveling through a region may receive information from a device, such as vehicle status (e.g., speed and fuel status); the current environment (e.g., ambient temperature and weather); the user's route (e.g., traffic and accident notification); and/or a content stream (e.g., a radio or podcast). However, such information may be unrelated to the user's focus or motivation for traveling, and may be distracting. The user may request and receive information about the travel topic, but some users may not have available attention and/or the impetus to initiate such requests. Instead, a device may detect a current location and direction of the user; predict the user's destination according to the current location and direction; and retrieve and present to the user one or more content items that are associated with the predicted destination (e.g., breaking news alerts involving an entity or organization located at the user's predicted destination).
A method of presenting content items to a user of a device having a processor, the method comprising:
A device that presents content items to a user, comprising:
A memory storing instructions that, when executed by a processor of a mobile device, cause the mobile device to:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.