Patent ID: 8972598
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for facilitating in-vehicle services for user-provided devices, wherein an individual user-provided device is provided and brought on by a user during transit on a vehicle, the method being implemented on an in-vehicle computer system that includes one or more physical processors executing one or more computer program instructions which, when executed, perform the method, the method comprising: facilitating, by the in-vehicle computer system, one or more communication sessions between the in-vehicle computer system and one or more user-provided devices; storing, by the in-vehicle computer system, content items available to the one or more user-provided devices, at least some of the content items having a content duration; receiving, at the in-vehicle computer system, a search request from a user-provided device of the one or more user-provided devices, the search request comprising one or more keywords; determining, by the in-vehicle computer system, based on an estimated time of arrival to a destination, a time remaining in transit for a user of the user-provided device; determining, by the in-vehicle computer system, based on the one or more keywords, one or more recommended content items having a content duration less than the time remaining; providing, by the in-vehicle computer system, a list of the one or more recommended content items to the user-provided device via the one or more communication sessions; receiving, at the in-vehicle computer system, a selection of at least one recommended content item of the one or more recommended content items from the user-provided device; and providing, by the in-vehicle computer system via the one or more communication sessions, access to the selected content item to the user-provided device.