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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 26, 1997
Latha Ravi, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Douglas Scott Arrowsmith, Milford, MI (US);
Peter Llewellyn, Southfield, MI (US);
Thomson Consumer Electronics Sales, GmbH, Hannover, DE;
Abstract
An autoset or auto-store function for a radio receiver selects stations for storing in association with respective presets according to the stored station format of the normal presets which have been manually set by the radio user for their home area. When activating the autoset feature when traveling out-of-town, the invention ensures consistent station formats at the presets according to the scheme adopted by the user. For any presets that have no station content code stored for them or for which no matching broadcast can be found during the autoset scan, a fill is conducted to associate listenable broadcasts with these remaining presets.