Method for automatically locating radio stations

• US 9,106,350 B2
• Filed: 11/18/2010
• Issued: 08/11/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Crambo, S.A., Nilo Garcia Manchado
• Original Assignee: Crambo, S.A., Nilo Garcia Manchado
• Inventors: Garcia Manchado, Nilo
• Primary Examiner(s): MEHRA, INDER P
• Application Number:
  US13/510,860
• Publication Number:
  US 20120315926A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,727 Days
• Field of Search: 455/161.2, 455/161.3, 455/179.1, 455/186.1, 455/161.1, 455/184.1, 455/410, 455/426.1, 455/456.3, 455/446, 455/552.1
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 2205/01 specially adapted for specific applications
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/02 using radio waves using satellite radio beacon systems for determining position G01S19/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/435 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/93 which locates resources of other pieces of information, e.g. URL [Uniform Resource Locator]
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/42 for identifying broadcast areas
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/46 for recognising users' preferences
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/51 of receiving stations
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25883 being end-user demographical data, e.g. age, family status or address arrangements for identifying locations of users in broadcast systems H04H60/52
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25891 being end-user preferences retrieval of video data in a video database based on user preferences G06F16/739; arrangements for recognizing users' preferences H04H60/46; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42202 environmental sensors, e.g. for detecting temperature, luminosity, pressure, earthquakes
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management

Abstract

Method and device for automatically locating radio stations, of the type which comprises at least a first database of radio and/or television stations (1, 21, 31), which includes the geographical location points or position of the station (13, 221), dial (14, 222) and/or on-demand broadcasting URL address (321), as well as a second database of user profiles (2, 22, 32) which also comprises at least one user profile configured according to the listening preferences of said user by means of a series of fields (11, 211, 311).

Claims

1. Method for automatically locating radio stations, comprising:

(a) defining at least one user profile in an user'"'"'s profile database, and wherein the user'"'"'s profile comprises, at least, a listening preference by the user;

(b) establishing at least one user location point of an user position; and

(c) locating a match between the user'"'"'s preferences set in (a) with the station or stations that have coverage at the user position set in (b);

(d) indicating an exact dial of the station or stations located in (c); and

(e) calculating a distance remaining to a next coverage area, wherein when the match is not located according with (c) displaying a message and a list of stations with coverage regardless of the defined user profile set in (a), and wherein if a cause of not locating the match is a lack of coverage of any station, displaying a message about lack of coverage;

(f) sending data via general packet radio service (GPRS) to the radio and/or television station or otherwise to other GPRS devices; and

(g) establishing when the coverage for a current broadcast is lost; and

(h) seeking an Uniform Resource Locator (URL) address in the user'"'"'s profile database of stations when there is no coverage for the current broadcast; and

connecting with the URL address until the coverage for the current broadcast is recovered; and

(i) wherein if the URL address of the current broadcast is not available all those stations that correspond to the selected user profile are sought, until a match is found, showing the selected stations, and showing to the user and/or selecting one of them by default.

2. The method according to claim 1 further comprising a recording stage of a second favorite broadcast, in such a way that it can subsequently be broadcasted at the user'"'"'s will.

3. The method according to claim 1 further comprising a routine reproduction stage of radio and/or television broadcast depending on the route selected by the user.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising automatically running the dial which match the user'"'"'s preferences with the station according with (d).

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein in the event that there is no match between profile and stations, a no-appropriate-profile message will be displayed.

6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising downloading of remote podcast, which is stored in memory, being reproduced in the case that:

there are no matches between profiles and stations or if a favorite URL is not available.

7. Device for automatically locating radio stations comprising:

a) a database of stations which includes the geographical location points and on demand broadcasting URL address as well as the dial; and

a database of user profiles which also comprises at least one user profile configured according to the listening preferences of the user by means of a plurality of fields;

wherein it comprises means for executing the method of claim 1.

8. A mobile phone comprising the device of the claim 7.