Patent ID: 9106350
Filing Date: 2015-08-11
Classification: G01S,G06F,H04H,H04L,H04N,H04W

Abstract:
1. Method for automatically locating radio stations, comprising: (a) defining at least one user profile in an user's profile database, and wherein the user's profile comprises, at least, a listening preference by the user; (b) establishing at least one user location point of an user position; and (c) locating a match between the user's preferences set in (a) with the station or stations that have coverage at the user position set in (b); (d) indicating an exact dial of the station or stations located in (c); and (e) calculating a distance remaining to a next coverage area, wherein when the match is not located according with (c) displaying a message and a list of stations with coverage regardless of the defined user profile set in (a), and wherein if a cause of not locating the match is a lack of coverage of any station, displaying a message about lack of coverage; (f) sending data via general packet radio service (GPRS) to the radio and/or television station or otherwise to other GPRS devices; and (g) establishing when the coverage for a current broadcast is lost; and (h) seeking an Uniform Resource Locator (URL) address in the user's profile database of stations when there is no coverage for the current broadcast; and connecting with the URL address until the coverage for the current broadcast is recovered; and (i) wherein if the URL address of the current broadcast is not available all those stations that correspond to the selected user profile are sought, until a match is found, showing the selected stations, and showing to the user and/or selecting one of them by default.