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US 2020/0351316 A1Published application
Systems and methods for sharing media content
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsYifan CHEN, Pramita MITRA, Abhishek SHARMA, Qianyi WANG
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Abstract
An infotainment system includes a transceiver to receive media content from a plurality of sources and communicate with a plurality of user devices and a broadcast device configured to broadcast media content. The infotainment system also includes a controller programmed to query the user devices for at least one media preference factor, and generate a composite public playlist based on an arbitration between different media preference factors received from the user devices.
Claims20
An infotainment system comprising:
- a transceiver to receive media content from a plurality of sources and communicate with a plurality of user devices;
- a broadcast device configured to broadcast media content;
- and
- a controller programmed to
- query the user devices for at least one media preference factor, and
- generate a composite public playlist based on an arbitration between different media preference factors received from the user devices.
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A method of managing media content comprising:
- querying a user media preference from each of a plurality of user devices;
- assigning a composite score to a media type based on a plurality of media preference factors;
- generating a media content playlist based on ranking a composite score associated with each of a plurality of media content types;
- and
- broadcasting a sequence of media content according to the media file playlist.
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A vehicle comprising:
- an infotainment system programmed to communicate with a plurality of user devices, receive media content from a plurality of sources, and broadcast the media content to users in a vicinity;
- and
- a controller programmed to
- query the plurality of user devices for user media preferences,
- generate a ranking of candidate media content types based on the user media preferences,
- generate a public media playlist for broadcast to the users in the vicinity based on the ranking, and
- cause the infotainment system to receive media content according to the media playlist.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.