Patent ID: 8937537
Filing Date: 2015-01-20
Classification: B60N,B60Q,G06F,G07C,G10L,G11B,H04H

Abstract:
1. A method of operating an audio system in an automobile, comprising the steps of: identifying a user of the audio system; identifying an audio recording playing on the audio system; sensing an audio setting entered into the audio system by the identified user while the audio recording is being played by the audio system; storing the sensed audio setting in memory in association with the identified user and the identified audio recording; retrieving the audio recording from memory with the sensed audio setting being embedded in the retrieved audio recording as a watermark signal; playing the retrieved audio recording on the audio system with the embedded sensed audio setting being automatically implemented by the audio system during the playing; providing a set of audio recordings; identifying which the audio recordings in the set that the user skips while listening to the set; storing in memory the audio recordings in the set that the user skips while listening to the set; and automatically skipping the audio recordings previously skipped by the user when playing the set of audio recordings.