Active Requesting of Information for Pseudo-Live Performance

摘要

Mass amounts of information, such as entire libraries of songs or movies, for example, may be stored locally near end-users, and this information may be accessed and reproduced in response to commands received from a transmitting station via a network. When a radio or television station desires to transmit a song or movie, for example, the radio or television station can, rather than transmitting the entire song or movie, merely transmit a command for reproducing the song or movie. An end-user's performance reproduction device, such as an enhanced radio or a television set, then accesses and reproduces the locally stored song or movie. Since the radio or television station need not transmit the entire performance, network traffic can be significantly reduced. The performance reproduction device may actively request information from the radio or television station when fresh or additional information is needed.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
determining a present location based on a positioning system; determining a local station matching a user preference using a local station master table and the present location; generating, via a processor, a request based on the user preference; communicating the request to the local station; receiving a local media portion from the local station in response to the request; identifying a segment of stored media which is replaceable by the local media portion, wherein the stored media is associated with a home station located in a home location different than the present location; replacing the segment of the stored media with the local media portion, to yield modified stored media; and presenting the modified stored media to a user associated with the user preference.