STREAMING MEDIA PERSONALIZED PROGRAM SCHEDULER

摘要

An apparatus for scheduling and playing selected streaming media broadcast programs to a user according to a user selected program schedule. A program database (46) contains program and schedule information of all programs broadcast in streaming media format. A user has search capabilities to search the program database (46) for programs of interest. A processor (40) controls user input selections of station and programs as well as program start and end times and stores the selected information in a user schedule database (48) unique to each user. Upon accessing the processor (40) through an Internet connection (26, 42), the processor links (40) any currently broadcast program from the user's schedule to the user, through Internet connections for output through the user's computer driven audio system (34).