Media content delivery system and method

Abstract

One or more wireless networks operate to provide wireless connectivity to a network server that runs an application that operates to deliver content to a mobile communication device that is either moving around a building interior or moving around in the open air. The mobile communication device has functionality that determines is rate of motion and functionality that allows it to determine its geographic location. The rate of motion and the geographic location can be sent to the application running on the network server and used to determine what type of content is appropriate to deliver to the mobile communication device.

I claim: 
     
         1 . A method of identifying an instance of media content to send to a mobile communication device to play at a location not having wireless network service, comprising:
 storing at a network computer device a plurality of instances of media content, each one of which is associated with an object that is proximate to one of a plurality of known locations;   receiving, over the wireless network from the mobile communication device, information indicative of a current location of the mobile communication device, and anticipating, based upon a current location and a recent pattern of mobile communication device movement, that the mobile communication device is moving to an area that does not have wireless network service,   identifying at least one of the stored plurality of the media content instances that is associated with an object that is proximate to one of the known locations that is within the area not having wireless network service, and sending the at least one identified instance of media content to the mobile communication device prior to it moving to the area not served by the wireless network; and   the mobile communication device playing the at least one identified instance of media content sent to it when the mobile communication device determines that it is proximate to the object at the one known location that is within the area not having wireless network service.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising the mobile communication device receiving the at least one identified instance of media content sent by the network computer device and playing the received at least one identified instance of media content when the mobile communication device determines that it is proximate to the location not having network connectivity. 
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the at least one identified instance of media content received at the communication device can comprise any one or more of an audio content type, a video content type, a textual content type, and a still image content type. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein a quality level of the at least one identified instance of media content received at the first mobile communication device is determined based on the current or past history of the rate of speed of the first mobile communications device. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the type of the at least one identified instance of media content received at the first mobile communication device is determined based upon the current of past history of the rate of speed of the first mobile communication device.