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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2022
Gracenote, Inc., Emeryville, CA (US);
Suresh Jeyachandran, Alameda, CA (US);
Damon P. Fasching, San Francisco, CA (US);
Hidenori Tanaka, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kaviarasu Vetriselvi, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Samit Raul, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ashley Michelle Adams, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Gracenote, Inc., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
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.