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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2013
Alpine Audio Now, Llc, Reston, VA (US);
Marcel Barbulescu, Falls Church, VA (US);
Elan Joel Blutinger, Washington, DC (US);
Eugen Leontie, Arlington, VA (US);
AudioNow IP Holdings, LLC, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for facilitating audio access to radio stations via a call-to-listen application on a device. A server can provide a listing of radio stations via an application on a user device, such as a smartphone, receive a selection of a radio station by a user and obtain a phone number associated with the selection. The server utilizes a phone dialer on the device to dial the phone number and is presented with received audio from a radio station associated with the phone number via the device. In one embodiment, a least expensive transmission mode is determined based on a data plan balance and a voice plan balance, and the audio is presented via the determined least expensive transmission mode. In another embodiment, the phone number dialed is determined by user location.