Mobile phone and method of updating radio channel settings

• US 7,395,041 B2
• Filed: 12/31/2001
• Issued: 07/01/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: RPX Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Nymark, Niels, Seppala, Olli
• Primary Examiner(s): Urban, Edward
• Assistant Examiner(s): Le, Nhan T.
• Application Number:
  US10/029,972
• Publication Number:
  US 20030125076A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,374 Days
• Field of Search: 455418-420, 455/466, 455/550.1, 455/556.1, 455/179.1, 455/185.1, 455/186.1, 455/412.1, 455/412.2, 370/328, 370/338
• US Class Current: 455/186.1
• CPC Class Codes: H03J 1/0075 where the receiving frequencies of the stations are stored in a permanent memory, e.g. ROM
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3805 with built-in auxiliary receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 40/18 Arrangements characterised by circuits or components specially adapted for receiving
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/91 Mobile communication networks for accessing the Internet H04H60/85
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages

Abstract

A mobile phone is provided with a broadband AM and/or FM radio signal receiver. The mobile phone further has a radio channel memory for storing a plurality of radio channel settings. The mobile telephone further receives messages, such as SMS messages, and a storage for storing a radio channel setting contained in a received message in the radio channel memory. A method of updating radio channel settings of a mobile phone having a broadband AM and/or FM radio receiver is provided. The mobile phone receives messages. The message contains a radio channel setting. The radio channel setting may be stored in the mobile phone.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a receiver configured to receive messages transmitted via a mobile phone network;

a user interface;

a broadband AM and/or FM radio signal receiver configured to determine a plurality of radio channel settings of a broadband AM and/or FM radio station based on at least one of the received messages;

a radio channel memory configured to store the plurality of radio channel settings of a broadband AM and/or FM radio station received in the messages with the receiver;

a storage configured to store a radio channel setting contained in a received message transmitted via the mobile phone network in the radio channel memory; and

a detector configured to detect that a message contains a radio channel setting;

wherein a menu of the user interface is activated when a message containing a radio channel setting is received, the menu displays prompts for either listening to the received radio channel, saving the received radio channel setting, viewing details of the received radio channel setting or discarding the channel setting, and

wherein a further menu of the user interface is activated when selection of the save the radio channel setting prompt is received, the further menu displays a prompt for selecting one of the channel location numbers of the radio channel memory.

2. An apparatus comprising:

a receiver configured to receive messages transmitted via a mobile phone network;

a broadband AM and/or FM radio signal receiver configured to determine a plurality of radio channel settings of a broadband AM and/or FM radio station based on at least one of the received messages;

a radio channel memory configured to store the plurality of radio channel settings of a broadband AM and/or FM radio station received in the messages with the receiver; and

a storage configured to store a radio channel setting contained in a received message transmitted via the mobile phone network in the radio channel memory;

wherein the receiver receives messages containing radio channel frequency and/or name and time and date of a radio program, the apparatus further comprising a control which activates the broadband AM and/or FM radio signal receiver and tunes the radio signal receiver to a received channel when the time and date of the received radio program has been reached.

3. A method comprising:

sending a first message containing a radio channel setting of a broadband AM and/or FM radio station via a mobile phone network to a mobile phone to update mobile phone radio channel settings, wherein the mobile phone comprises a receiver for receiving messages via the mobile phone network and a broadband AM and/or FM radio receiver which receives messages;

assigning radio channel settings to different geographical areas;

determining in which geographical area the mobile phone is located; and

sending a second message to the mobile phone containing at least one radio channel setting assigned to the geographical area in which the mobile phone is located.

4. A method according to claim 3, wherein the second message containing the at least one radio channel setting assigned to the geographical location in which the phone is located, is sent when the mobile phone has moved from one geographical area to another or when the mobile phone logs on to the mobile phone network in the geographical area.