Patent ID: 7636557
Filing Date: 2009-12-22
Classification: H04H

Abstract:
1. A method for identifying radio stations broadcasting along a travel route, comprising: determining a travel route, inside a centralized processor device, based on specified starting and ending location information; identifying from a plurality of radio stations, from a radio station information database, any radio station along the determined travel route that broadcast radio program formats corresponding to at least one specified radio program format, wherein the identifying includes analyzing predetermined radio station information compiled for the plurality of radio stations; and outputting text-formatted travel directions comprising a plurality of text segments specifying travel segments between said specified starting location and said specified ending location along said travel route, and outputting the identified radio stations, from the radio station information database through a communications network to an end-user device, to accompany the determined travel route as text-formatted travel directions comprising a plurality of text segments, the text segments specifying at least one of the identified radio stations or indicating that none of the radio stations were identified adjacent text segments identifying travel directions, wherein the determining, analyzing and outputting steps are implemented without requiring positioning devices that provide real-time positioning information of a radio receiver, and wherein the travel directions and the accompanying identified radio stations are output to facilitate a traveler's travel from the specified starting point to the ending location prior to said travel.