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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2006
Yossi Tsfaty, Rishon Letzion, IL;
Itay Sherman, Ra'anana, IL;
Yossi Tsfaty, Rishon Letzion, IL;
Itay Sherman, Ra'anana, IL;
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A novel and useful mechanism for automatically establishing a radio link between a communications device and a commercially available FM radio receiver, thereby eliminating the need to manually configure both the target FM radio receiver and the FM transmitter to a suitable FM station. The mechanism scans the RF spectrum periodically for candidate frequencies over which to transmit the desired audio signal to the target radio. Once a suitable frequency is detected, the mechanism waits for an incoming call in the case of a cellular phone or immediately establishes a link such as in the case of a multimedia player. When a connection is to be established, a Radio Data System compatible bitstream is transmitted to configure the target radio to jump to an 'alternate frequency' when reception conditions are poor enough. To ensure that the target radio receiver jumps to the desired station, the FM transmitter sends a CW signal to jam or block the station the target radio is currently tuned to. This causes the target radio to jump to the alternate frequency.