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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2017

Filed:

Jan. 14, 2014
Applicant:

Sirius Xm Radio Inc., New York, NY (US);

Inventors:

Paul Marko, Pembroke Pines, FL (US);

Stuart A. Cox, Boca Raton, FL (US);

Craig Wadin, Sunrise, FL (US);

Assignee:

Sirius XM Radio Inc., New York, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04H 60/25 (2008.01); H04H 60/46 (2008.01); H04H 60/65 (2008.01); H04H 60/73 (2008.01); H04H 20/26 (2008.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30769 (2013.01); H04H 60/25 (2013.01); H04H 60/46 (2013.01); H04H 60/65 (2013.01); H04H 60/73 (2013.01); H04H 20/26 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods are presented for a broadcast or streamed content receiver to receive a plurality of program channels with defined banks of subset channels, to display the banks on the radio receiver, and to receive dynamic updates of both channels within the banks and the content of each such channel. In exemplary embodiments of the present invention, the channels in a given bank can be determined by commonality as to defined categories, user interest, user preferences, and/or content provider, or seasonal or other relevance. In exemplary embodiments of the present invention, channels in one or more defined banks can be buffered to facilitate smart user scanning within such defined banks, or one or more banks can be used to generate a bank specific 'TuneMix™' channel.


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