Patent ID: 7054601

Claim:
A method of storing and selecting a radio station in a radio having a plurality of tuner presets and a plurality of memory locations assigned to each of the plurality of tuner presets, comprising: storing a plurality of radio stations under a tuner preset, wherein each of the plurality of radio stations is stored as a record in one of the plurality of memory locations assigned to the tuner present, the record comprising: (i) a radio station frequency; and (ii) a geographic position of the radio at a time that the record is stored; and in response to subsequent selection of the tuner preset, selecting the radio station from the plurality of radio stations stored under the tuner preset, comprising: identifying the record having the geographic position that is closest to a geographic position of the radio at a time that the tuner preset is selected; and tuning the radio to the radio station frequency of the identified record, wherein the record further comprises an access count corresponding to the radio station stored in the record, storing includes initializing the access count at zero, and selecting the radio station includes incrementing the access count by one.