Gracenote, Inc.

Damon P Fasching

Suresh Jeyachandran

John M Qin

Mark W Sherman

Pat D Fearn

Dong-In Lee

Samit Raul

Kathyrene Villariba

John Colton

Ashley Michelle Adams

Hidenori Tanaka

Kaviarasu Vetriselvi

In one aspect, an example method includes (i) encountering, by a media playback device of a vehicle, a trigger to update a list of currently tunable radio stations; (ii) based on encountering the trigger to update the list of currently tunable radio stations, updating, by the media playback device, the list of currently tunable radio stations using a location of the vehicle and radio station contour data stored in a local database of the media playback device; and (iii) displaying, by the media playback device, a station list using the list of currently tunable radio stations.

Radio head unit with dynamically updated tunable channel listing

A method for controlling presentation of metadata regarding media. A system could generate query fingerprints representing media content being presented, the media content having been identified as being a first media-content item. The system could further detect a threshold mismatch comprising at least one of the query fingerprints not matching any of first reference fingerprints known to represent the first media-content item. In response, the system could engage in new media identification, establishing that the media content is a second media-content item, and could obtain both second reference fingerprints known to represent the second media-content item and metadata regarding the second media-content item. Further, the system could validate the new identification as a condition precedent to presenting the obtained metadata, the validating including comparing with the obtained second digital reference fingerprints the at least one digital query fingerprint that did not match any of the first digital reference fingerprints.

Use of mismatched query fingerprint as basis to validate media identification

In one aspect, an example method includes (i) while a media playback device of a vehicle is playing back content received on a first channel, sending, by the media playback device to a server, a preview request, the preview request identifying a second channel that is different from the first channel; (ii) receiving, by the media playback device from the server, a response to the preview request, the response including identifying information corresponding to content being provided on the second channel; and (iii) while the media playback device is playing back the content received on the first channel, providing, by the media playback device for display, at least a portion of the identifying information corresponding to content being provided on the second channel.

Generation of media station previews using a reference database

In one aspect, an example method includes (i) while a media playback device of a vehicle is playing back content received on a first channel, generating, by the media playback device, a query fingerprint using second content received on a second channel; (ii) sending, by the media playback device, the query fingerprint to a server that maintains a reference database containing a plurality of reference fingerprints; (iii) receiving, by the media playback device from the server, identifying information corresponding to a reference fingerprint of the plurality of reference fingerprints that matches the query fingerprint; and (iv) while the media playback device is playing back the first content received on the first channel, providing, by the media playback device for display, at least a portion of the identifying information.

Generation of media station previews using a secondary tuner

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Damon P Fasching