Patent ID: 7817621
Filing Date: 2010-10-19
Classification: H04H,H04L

Abstract:
1. A vehicular radio, comprising: a housing configured to be mounted inside a motor vehicle; one or more components coupled to the housing and configured for wireless Internet communication; one or more electronic components coupled to the housing for rendering a received audio data stream as electronic output; one or more memory buttons disposed on the housing and associated one-to-one by a stored map with individual Universal Resource Locators (URLs) correspondingly associated with Internet radio broadcast data streams such that a single operation of any one memory button asserts the associated URL, causing the radio to receive the corresponding Internet radio broadcast data stream; and at least one input, operation of which communicatively connects the radio to a directory server on the Internet to download one or more URLs of audio data from, and stored on, the directory server, the one or more downloaded URLs providing links to one or more broadcast servers that are separate from the directory server, wherein the radio is configured to associate each downloaded URL one-to-one with an individual one of the one or more memory buttons.