Patent ID: 7746895
Filing Date: 2010-06-29
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. In a system including a device that receives a plurality of data streams from one or more data stream sources, a method comprising: receiving the plurality of data streams broadcast over a satellite radio network at the device, the data streams comprising content data segments comprising: audio data; and metadata identifying one or more characteristics of the audio data; performing at least a portion of a first audio data of one of the data streams at the device, the performing comprising converting the audio data into sound perceptible by a user; and discovering, at the device, a content data segment of a second one of the data streams that is not being performed, wherein the discovering comprises filtering, with a filter, the second one of the data streams currently received at the device, wherein the filter is created automatically based at least in part on a history of the device and on a list received from a second device, the list including the history of the second device, a play list of the second device, user preferences of the second device and ads that have been viewed by the second device; wherein the filtering comprises: