Method for recording information, in particular audio signals, received via radio, in particular broadcast radio

• US 20040032805A1
• Filed: 06/02/2003
• Published: 02/19/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Zimmer, Darren, Schade-Buensow, Volker
• Granted Patent: US 7,561,495 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 369/47.33
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/27 Arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41422 located in transportation means, e.g. personal vehicle arrangements specially adapted for transportation systems in broadcast systems H04H20/62
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4331 Caching operations, e.g. of an advertisement for later insertion during playback
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/472 End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content reservation or setting reminders, for requesting event notification, for manipulating displayed content end-user interfaces for retrieving video data from a database G06F16/739; network services for supporting unicast streaming H04L65/612
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8113 comprising music, e.g. song in MP3 format

Abstract

A method for storing information, in particular audio signals, received via radio, in particular broadcast radio, the received information being written to a first memory, where the information stored in the first memory is overwritten by newly received information, preferably no later than when the memory capacity of the first memory is exceeded by the sum of the information stored in the first memory, and where in response to a record command all or part of the information present in the first memory is transferred into a second memory. As a result, even when playback of information which is of interest to the user has already begun, the latter can nevertheless record the entire information unit, for example the whole piece of music, part of which has already been played back, in its entirety right from the beginning.

Claims

1. A method for recording information comprising:

storing received information in a first memory;

overwriting the information stored in the first memory with newly received information; and

transferring at least a part of the information stored in the first memory into a second memory in response to a record command.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information includes audio signals received via broadcast radio.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information is overwritten no later than when a memory capacity of the first memory is exceeded by a sum of the information stored in the first memory.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising storing, in the second memory, information subsequent to the stored information of a same information unit.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the same information unit is a same piece of music received via radio.

6. The method according to claim 4, wherein the subsequent information is stored in the second memory at memory locations following the stored information.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first memory includes a buffer memory of a playback device for recording media in a disk format.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the playback device is for at least one of a CD and a DVD.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein the playback device is integrated into a radio receiver.