Radio station list management

摘要

The present disclosure provides radio station list management in a wireless receiver. Upon detection of a scan event, a plurality of radio broadcast channels is scanned to detect available radio stations. Available radio stations that fail to meet a preference criterion are identified and removed to form a list of preferred radio stations. The scan event may be generated dependent upon a time, a location of the wireless receiver, or a broadcast signal quality. Preference criteria may include station content classification and signal quality.

主权项

1. A method of managing preferred radio stations in a wireless receiver, the method comprising:
in response to detecting a scan event, scanning a plurality of radio broadcast channels to detect available radio stations of the plurality of radio broadcast channels; identifying radio stations of the available radio stations that fail to meet a preference criterion; removing the identified radio stations from the available radio stations to form a list of preferred radio stations that meet the preference criterion; and storing the list of preferred radio stations; where detecting the scan event comprises detecting at least one of the following events: connection of an ear-phone to a playback circuit of the wireless receiver; and detecting signal quality below a set threshold, and where storing the list of preferred radio stations comprises: storing a broadcast channel of each radio station in the list of preferred radio stations; and storing a location of the wireless receiver, the method further comprising: comparing a first list of preferred radio stations stored at a first location with a second list of preferred radio stations stored at a second location; and replacing the first and second lists of preferred radio stations with a third list of preferred radio stations if the first and second lists of preferred radio stations have a predetermined number of entries in common; where the third list of preferred radio stations includes a combination of the first and second lists of preferred radio stations.