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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2015
Sirius Xm Radio Inc., New York, NY (US);
Richard A. Michalski, Coral Springs, FL (US);
Stuart A. Cox, Boca Raton, FL (US);
Paul D. Marko, Pembroke Pines, FL (US);
Mark Rindsberg, Boca Raton, FL (US);
Greg Nease, Princeton, NJ (US);
Glenn Peffers, Lake Worth, FL (US);
Sirius XM Radio Inc., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided for generating a personalized radio channel playlist by simultaneously buffering multiple received channels from one or more source streams, and then selecting songs or tracks to playback from the buffered channels. Users can specify favorite channels for building their personal playlists, or multiple default playlist channels can be provided by genre or channels related in some other way. Navigation tools permit users to skip ahead and backward in the playback stream. A personalized radio channel playlist can be implemented as (1) content selected from buffered channels based on user preferences for artists, songs and the like, or (2) as a Mix Channel in which content from selected buffered channels is automatically mixed for playback in response to selection of a preset button assigned to the Mix Channel.