Mobile device with themed multimedia effects

US8010094B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Ross Cox · Cumming, US
• Randall Coston · Atlanta, US
• Eric Breier · Atlanta, US
• Christine Elizabeth Bielinski · Atlanta, US
• Kimberly Jo Roth-Beaudot · Atlanta, US
• Win S. Gowland · Avondale Estates, US
• Stephen Neal Griffin · Atlanta, US
• Paul Condolora · Atlanta, US
• Molly Anne Chase · Atlanta, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 6, 2006
• Grant date: Aug 30, 2011
• Expiry date: Jun 21, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02D30/70
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for providing mobile devices having themed multimedia effects. One embodiment comprises a method in receiving a plurality of multimedia effects associated with a theme at a mobile device, receiving mobile device information comprising call log information, power source level, and signal strength associated with a wireless connection between the mobile device and a second device, detecting a mobile device event associated with the mobile device, determining a multimedia effect correlated with the mobile device event based at least in part on the mobile device information and the theme, and outputting the multimedia effect.