Network media service with track delivery adapted to a user cadence
AssigneeSprint Communications Company L.P.
InventorsJonathan R. Kindred, Geoffrey S. Martin, Danny L. Bowman
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Abstract
A wireless network service delivers audio tracks to a user via a mobile wireless terminal. A server maintains a plurality of audio tracks, wherein each audio track is stored in conjunction with a respective cadence tag. A cadence evaluator identifies a substantially instantaneous user status and selects a cadence tag corresponding to the user status. The server streams a selected audio track having a cadence tag matching the selected cadence tag, and the mobile wireless terminal plays it back to the user. The cadence can be selected to match a desired pace of an athletic workout, a desired heart rate, or the particular geographic surroundings, for example.
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A wireless network service for delivering audio tracks to a user via a mobile wireless terminal, comprising;
- a server for maintaining a plurality of audio tracks, wherein each audio track is stored in conjunction with a respective cadence tag;
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- a cadence evaluator that identifies a substantially instantaneous user status and selects a cadence tag corresponding to the user status, wherein the substantially instantaneous user status comprises a geographic location within a plurality of predetermined zones, and wherein the cadence evaluator includes a mapping for associating each zone with at least one respective cadence tag;
- wherein the server delivers and the mobile wireless terminal reproduces a selected audio track having a cadence tag matching the selected cadence tag.
A network service for delivering audio tracks to a user via a mobile wireless terminal, comprising;
- a server for maintaining a plurality of audio tracks, wherein each audio track is stored in conjunction with a respective cadence tag;
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- a cadence evaluator that identifies a substantially instantaneous user status and selects a cadence tag corresponding to the user status;
- wherein the server delivers and the mobile wireless terminal reproduces a selected audio track having a cadence tag matching the selected cadence tag;
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- wherein the respective cadence tag for each audio track is predetermined based on at least one predetermined geographic landmark.
A method of delivering audio tracks to a user's mobile wireless terminal over a wireless network, comprising the steps of;
- maintaining a plurality of audio tracks for delivery to the mobile wireless terminal via the wireless network,
- pre-defining a respective cadence tag for each audio track to be stored in conjunction therewith;
- identifying a substantially instantaneous user status by calculating a geographic location of the mobile wireless terminal within a plurality of predetermined zones;
- selecting a cadence tag corresponding to the user status by looking up at least one respective cadence tag in a mapping in response to the calculated zone;
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- reproducing a selected audio track on the mobile wireless terminal having a cadence tag matching the selected cadence tag.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.