Content player method and server with user profile
AssigneeMotorola, Inc.
InventorsSteven D. Leeke, Gregory B. Mackintosh, Edward Stojakovic
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Abstract
A method of operation of a server (102) interacting with users (104, 106) to provide personalized content to each of the users. Personalized content is sent to a first user by communicating first audio or other content associated with a broadcast to a first user location. Second content is selected and a first signal is communicated to the first user location dependent on the user profile. The second content can include second audio content selected in dependence upon the first user profile, in which case playback of the second audio content is synchronized with respect to playback of the first audio content.
Claims20
A method of operation for a server that interacts with a plurality of client apparatuses to provide personalized content to each client apparatus, the method comprising the steps of:
- communicating a first media content and control data associated with the first media content from the server to a particular client apparatus of the plurality of client apparatuses, wherein the control data indicates at least one insertion point of the first media content;
- retrieving a user profile associated with the particular client apparatus;
- selecting a second media content based on the user profile;
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- communicating the second media content and a control signal associated with the second media content from the server to the particular client apparatus, wherein the control signal instructs the particular client apparatus to insert the second media content at the at least one insertion point of the first media content.
A method of operation for a server that interacts with a plurality of client apparatuses to provide personalized content to each client apparatus, the method comprising the steps of:
- communicating a first media content and control data associated with the first media content from the server to a particular client apparatus of the plurality of client apparatuses, wherein the control data indicates a schedule of insertion times;
- retrieving a user profile associated with the particular client apparatus;
- selecting a second media content based on the user profile;
- and
- communicating the second media content from the server to the particular client apparatus, wherein the particular client apparatus maintains a time clock to determine when to insert the second media content into the first media content based on the control data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.