Personalized Audio Stream Interruption Logic
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing audio play devices lack personalized audio streaming solutions that allow users to seamlessly integrate music with time-sensitive information and messages, such as news, weather, and traffic updates, without disrupting the music experience.
Innovation Solution
A processor-implemented method and system that create personalized audio streams by inserting music into an audio stream, interrupting it with selected audio messages based on user preferences, location, and time, and resuming music playback after message completion, converting text messages and emails to audio format for immediate or scheduled playback.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If audio messages are inserted into the music stream, then information delivery is improved, but music continuity is disrupted
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-identifies interruption points in the music stream before inserting audio messages. By analyzing the music structure in advance and selecting appropriate break points (such as between tracks or during natural pauses), the system prepares the insertion locations beforehand, minimizing disruption to the overall music listening experience while ensuring timely delivery of audio messages
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements periodic music playback with scheduled interruptions for audio messages. Music plays in periods, with message insertions occurring at predetermined intervals or at specific trigger points (such as track transitions). This periodic structure allows users to receive information regularly while maintaining a rhythmic, predictable listening pattern that reduces perceived disruption
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple services are integrated into audio stream, then service functionality is improved, but stream complexity is increased
Solution Approach 1:
The audio stream is segmented into distinct components: music segments and message segments. Each segment type is handled separately with dedicated processing rules. Music segments maintain their original structure and playback characteristics, while message segments are inserted as discrete units at defined interruption points. This segmentation allows multiple services (music playback, message delivery, text-to-audio conversion) to be integrated without creating a monolithic complex stream structure
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary processing layer that manages the integration of multiple services. This intermediary component receives inputs from various sources (music streams, message queues, text-to-audio converters) and orchestrates their combination into the final audio stream. The intermediary handles timing, synchronization, and format conversion, simplifying the overall system architecture by centralizing the integration logic rather than requiring direct complex interactions between all service components
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AI summary
A processor-implemented method of providing personalized integrated audio comprises maintaining, by a computer, a profile for a user, creating 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 the insertion of the music into the audio stream, inserting a first audio message into the audio stream, and resuming insertion of the music into the audio stream after the completion of the first audio message. 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, and 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 or a place of the audio play device.