Location-based audio service
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsW. Alex Vorbau, Anupriya Ankolekar, Michael J. Brzozowski
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention provide a location-based audio service. According to one embodiment, a request for a desired audio stream having an inactive segment is received from a user operating a mobile device. Furthermore, geographic data may be monitored while the audio stream is being rendered on the mobile device. The location-based audio service is configured to determine relevant location-based information based on the geographic data, and then transmit the relevant information to the mobile device during the inactive segment of the desired audio stream.
Claims20
A method for providing information to a user operating a mobile device, the method comprising:
- receiving a request for services from the user via the mobile device, wherein the services include a desired audio stream having at least one inactive segment;
- transmitting the desired audio stream to the mobile device in response to receiving the request;
- monitoring geographic data from the mobile device while the audio stream is being rendered on the mobile device;
- determining relevant location-based information based on the geographic data from the mobile device;
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- transmitting the relevant location-based information to the mobile device for playback during the at least one inactive segment.
A method for providing information to a user operating a mobile device, the method comprising:
- receiving a request for services from the user via the obi le device, wherein the services include at least one desired audio stream;
- transmitting the desired audio stream to the mobile device in response to said request;
- monitoring geographic data from the mobile device while the audio stream is being rendered on the mobile device;
- determining relevant location-based information based on the geographic data from the mobile device;
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- sending, during playback of the desired audio stream, an audible notification to the user alerting the user to an availability of the relevant location-based information.
A method for providing information to a user operating a mobile device, the method comprising:
- receiving a request for services from the user via the mobile device, wherein the request for services includes travel information;
- determining a stream of relevant content based on the travel information received from the user;
- and
- transmitting the stream of relevant content to the mobile device for playback.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.