Patent ID: 9628207
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: H04H,H04R

Claim:
1. A system, comprising: a computer processor communicatively coupled to an audio system in a vehicle, the audio system rendering a first instance of a content item, the content item received from a content provider, as a source of content, over a network; and logic executable by the computer processor, the logic configured to cause the processor to perform: determining alternative sources of content that are communicatively available to the vehicle, including monitoring short range wireless signals for a presence of a wireless device in the vehicle; determining a signal quality trigger event; anticipating a time of an interruption in a signal from the content provider based on the signal quality trigger event; determining a location in the first instance of the content item when the time of the interruption will occur; searching the alternative sources of content for the content item to identify a second instance of the content item and a plurality of alternative content items; and upon arrival of the time of the interruption in the signal from the content provider with respect to the instance of the content item: