Patent ID: 8359382
Filing Date: 2013-01-22
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A processor-implemented method of providing personalized integrated audio, comprising: maintaining, by a computer, a profile for a user, wherein the profile comprises user specified preferences for music and a user-defined schedule of when insertion of audio messages from user selected subscribed information services are permitted into an audio stream; creating, by the computer, the audio stream to transmit to an audio play device associated with the user and inserting the music from a source into the audio stream; interrupting, by the computer, the insertion of the music into the audio stream; inserting, by the computer, a first audio message into the audio stream, wherein the first audio message is selected by the computer from the user selected subscribed information services of the profile based on at least one of a time and a place of the audio play device, wherein the user selected subscribed information services comprise one or more of news, sports, business, weather, stocks, and traffic information, and wherein the first audio message is inserted into the audio stream at a location based on the user-defined schedule in the profile; inserting, by the computer, a second audio message into the audio stream, wherein the second audio message comprises information converted from a text format of a message addressed to a communication system of the audio play device to an audio format; and after the completion of one of the first audio message and the second audio message, resuming, by the computer, insertion of the music into the audio stream.