Route controlled audio programming
AssigneeNavigation Technologies Corp.
InventorMark Barton
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Abstract
A feature implemented on a navigation system in a vehicle whereby the user of the vehicle selects one or more types of audio programs and associates each type of audio program with a specific location along a predetermined route. As the vehicle is being driven along the route, audio programs of the types selected by the user are obtained and stored in a memory. When the vehicle reaches the location associated with one of the selected types of audio programming, the stored audio program of the selected type is presented to the user.
Claims20
A method implemented by a navigation system installed in a vehicle comprising:
- receiving input from a vehicle user that specifies a type of audio programming to be presented to the vehicle user at a stage of a route to a destination and further wherein said input defines each stage along the route that corresponds to each type of audio programming specified by the vehicle user;
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- storing data in said navigation system that represents said input.
A method implemented by a navigation system installed in a vehicle comprising:
- determining a current location of the vehicle;
- as the vehicle travels along a route to a destination, determining whether the current location of the vehicle matches a position along the route specified by a user of the vehicle as being associated with a specific type of audio programming;
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- if the current location of the vehicle matches the position along the route specified by the user of the vehicle as being associated with the specific type of audio programming, presenting the user of the vehicle with the audio programming of the specific type associated with the position by the user.
A navigation system installed in a vehicle comprising:
- an application that determines a current location of the vehicle;
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- an application that determines whether the current location of the vehicle matches any of a plurality of locations along a predetermined route to which a user of the navigation system has associated a specific type of audio programming as the vehicle travels along a route to a destination and presents the user of the vehicle with the audio programming associated with the position if the current location of the vehicle matches any of the positions along the route associated with a specific type of audio programming.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.