Patent ID: 8934845
Filing Date: 2015-01-13
Classification: H04H

Abstract:
1. A method of managing preferred radio stations in a wireless receiver, the method comprising: in response to detecting a scan event, scanning a plurality of radio broadcast channels to detect available radio stations of the plurality of radio broadcast channels; identifying radio stations of the available radio stations that fail to meet a preference criterion; removing the identified radio stations from the available radio stations to form a list of preferred radio stations that meet the preference criterion; and storing the list of preferred radio stations; where detecting the scan event comprises detecting at least one of the following events: connection of an ear-phone to a playback circuit of the wireless receiver; and detecting signal quality below a set threshold, and where storing the list of preferred radio stations comprises: storing a broadcast channel of each radio station in the list of preferred radio stations; and storing a location of the wireless receiver, the method further comprising: comparing a first list of preferred radio stations stored at a first location with a second list of preferred radio stations stored at a second location; and replacing the first and second lists of preferred radio stations with a third list of preferred radio stations if the first and second lists of preferred radio stations have a predetermined number of entries in common; where the third list of preferred radio stations includes a combination of the first and second lists of preferred radio stations.