US 12,457,051 B2
Radio head unit with dynamically updated tunable channel listing
Suresh Jeyachandran, Alameda, CA (US); Damon P. Fasching, San Francisco, CA (US); Hidenori Tanaka, San Francisco, CA (US); Kaviarasu Vetriselvi, Walnut Creek, CA (US); Samit Raul, San Francisco, CA (US); and Ashley Michelle Adams, Walnut Creek, CA (US)
Assigned to Gracenote, Inc., New York, NY (US)
Filed by Gracenote, Inc., Emeryville, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 19, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/969,407.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/270,832, filed on Oct. 22, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0126270 A1, Apr. 27, 2023
Int. Cl. H04H 60/73 (2008.01); H04H 40/18 (2008.01); H04H 60/41 (2008.01)
CPC H04H 60/73 (2013.01) [H04H 40/18 (2013.01); H04H 60/41 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
encountering, by a media playback device of a vehicle, a trigger to update a list of currently tunable radio stations;
based on encountering the trigger to update the list of currently tunable radio stations, updating, by the media playback device, the list of currently tunable radio stations using a location of the vehicle and radio station contour data stored in a local database of the media playback device; and
displaying, by the media playback device, a station list using the list of currently tunable radio stations, wherein the list of currently tunable radio stations identifies one or more radio stations that are: receivable at the location of the vehicle without interference from other radio stations broadcasting on a same frequency as a frequency on which the one or more radio stations broadcast, receivable at the location of the vehicle with a signal strength that satisfies a threshold condition, or both.