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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2000
Geoffrey Zweig, Greenwich, CT (US);
Chalapathy Neti, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
IBM Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A trainable radio scanner, including a station monitoring circuit to scan a plurality of radio frequencies and extract audio samples of a predetermined duration from each one of the plurality of radio frequencies having a signal strength above a reception threshold; a memory storing audio classification data and the plurality of audio samples; and an audio analyzer to analyze each one of the plurality of audio samples using the audio classification data and classifies each audio sample into a musical style category; a style discriminator to control a radio station scanning operation of the radio receiver to tune only to preferred radio stations having a radio frequency at which the corresponding audio sample is classified in at least one preferred musical style category.