User configurable radio
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsRichard Williams, Paul D. Bartoli
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Abstract
Playlists comprising media objects can be modified by adding personalized supplemental media objects that can provide a customized entertainment experience. As an example, an application can overlay a playlist on a consumer's device and can call a user-configurable rules engine that can select a supplemental media object (e.g., a pre-recorded and/or dynamically synthesized media file) that is to be played with the media objects. In one example, the supplemental media object can be associated with a user-selected voice personality and can be streamed from a network storage device via a communication network coupled to the consumer device.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- receiving, by network equipment comprising a processor, playlist data comprising indications of media objects;
- based on user profile data corresponding to a user identity associated with the playlist data, determining, by the network equipment, supplemental objects that are to be played between the media objects, wherein the determining comprises determining respective playback insertion frequencies of the supplemental objects;
- and
- sending, by the network equipment, the supplemental objects from the network equipment to user equipment associated with the user profile data.
A system, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
- accessing playlist data representative of media objects, wherein the playlist data is associated with a subscriber;
- analyzing the playlist data and profile data associated with the subscriber to determine supplemental information and a duration associated with the supplemental information,
- wherein the supplemental information comprises media files for playback by a subscriber device associated with the subscriber during transitions between the media objects;
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- communicating media objects of the media objects and the supplemental information to the subscriber device.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
- receiving playlist data comprising identifiers of media objects;
- based on user profile data associated with the playlist data, determining a supplemental object and a supplemental object frequency;
- and
- inserting the supplemental object between the media objects according to the supplemental object frequency.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.