Method for recording information transmitted over a radio frequency

• US 7,072,629 B2
• Filed: 03/07/2001
• Issued: 07/04/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/08/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Dickhoff, Klaus-Dieter, Fricke, Ulrich
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Duc M.
• Application Number:
  US10/221,262
• Publication Number:
  US 20030186661A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,945 Days
• Field of Search: 455/185.1, 455/186.1, 455/161.1, 455/161.2, 455/161.3, 455/175.1, 455/179.1, 455/184.1, 4553431-3435, 455/227, 455/230, 455/231, 455/150.1, 455/154.1, 455/160.1, 455/3.01, 455/3.02, 455/3.04, 455/3.06
• US Class Current: 455/150.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/55 for traffic information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 2201/13 radio data system/radio broadcast data system [RDS/RBDS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/27 Arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information

Abstract

A method for recording information that is transmitted over a radio frequency, especially traffic information, in which, in a monitoring state, the receiving device is supplied with power in a clocked manner. While switched on, the receiving device is tuned to a preestablished radio frequency and the received radio frequency is monitored for the presence of an identifier designating information. In the event an information identifier is detected, the receiver is supplied with power for the duration of the identifier and the information is recorded. In response to switching on the monitoring state, the preestablished radio frequency is determined as the frequency to which a radio frequency refers that transmits no information and that was set before the monitoring state was switched on.

Claims

1. A method for recording information transmitted over a radio frequency, comprising:

supplying power, in a clocked fashion, to an arrangement configured to receive and evaluate a radio frequency;

while the arrangement configured to receive and evaluate is switched on, tuning to a preestablished radio frequency and switching the arrangement configured to receive and evaluate to a monitoring state;

monitoring the radio frequency for the presence of an identifier designating information;

in an event the identifier designating information is detected, supplying the arrangement configured to receive and evaluate, and a recording arrangement, with power for a duration of the identifier, and recording information; and

in response to switching on the monitoring state, determining the preestablished radio frequency as a frequency that transmits no traffic information and that was set before the monitoring state was switched on.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information is traffic information.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

after the monitoring state is switched off, tuning to the frequency that was set before the monitoring state was switched on.