Radio station list management

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8934845-B2
Application number	US-201213476233-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 21, 2012
Priority date	May 21, 2012
Publication date	Jan 13, 2015
Grant date	Jan 13, 2015

Abstract

The present disclosure provides radio station list management in a wireless receiver. Upon detection of a scan event, a plurality of radio broadcast channels is scanned to detect available radio stations. Available radio stations that fail to meet a preference criterion are identified and removed to form a list of preferred radio stations. The scan event may be generated dependent upon a time, a location of the wireless receiver, or a broadcast signal quality. Preference criteria may include station content classification and signal quality.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of managing preferred radio stations in a wireless receiver, the method comprising:
in response to detecting a scan event, scanning a plurality of radio broadcast channels to detect available radio stations of the plurality of radio broadcast channels;
identifying radio stations of the available radio stations that fail to meet a preference criterion;
removing the identified radio stations from the available radio stations to form a list of pref…

Assignees

• Weng Jianfeng
• Blackberry Ltd

Inventors

• Weng Jianfeng

Classifications

• H04H60/47 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04H60/65

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04H60/33

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04H40/45

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04H2201/13

  Electricity · mapped topic