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

Claim 9:
10. A system for enhanced playback of content, the system comprising:
a broadcast device; and
a computing device configured to:
receive, from a 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 an oldest program and a next oldest program, associated with each of the designated channels, in a buffer;
receive a user input to initiate a scan function; and
in response to the user input, scanning at least a subset of the designated channels by successively playing a selected amount of content for each designated channel in the subset,
wherein the successively playing the selected amount of the content includes playing a portion of an oldest program in each of the designated channels and playing a portion of a next oldest program in each of the designated channels until at least a portion of a newest buffered program in each of the designated channels is played.