Patent ID: 11870547
Assignee: SIRIUS XM RADIO INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A system for enhanced playback of content, the system comprising:
a broadcast device; and
a computing device configured to:
receive, from the broadcast device, a plurality of program channels from at least one content stream;
designate one or more of the plurality of program channels as designated channels;
store at least a currently received program and one or more older programs associated with each of the designated channels in a buffer; and
in response to receiving a command to initiate a scan function, scanning at least a subset of the plurality of program channels by:
playing a portion of an oldest program in each of the designated channels from a playback point that corresponds to a start of the oldest program; and
successively playing a portion of a next oldest program in each of the designated channels until at least a portion of the currently received program in each of the designated channels is played.