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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2023
Gracenote, Inc., Emeryville, CA (US);
John M. Qin, San Francisco, CA (US);
Suresh Jeyachandran, Alameda, CA (US);
Damon P. Fasching, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gracenote, Inc., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
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.