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- Patent Title: Systems and methods for implementing dynamic banks of subchannels for broadcast or streamed content services featured favorites
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Application No.: US14155296Application Date: 2014-01-14
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Publication No.: US09600573B2Publication Date: 2017-03-21
- Inventor: Paul Marko , Stuart A. Cox , Craig Wadin
- Applicant: Sirius XM Radio Inc.
- Applicant Address: US NY New York
- Assignee: Sirius XM Radio Inc.
- Current Assignee: Sirius XM Radio Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US NY New York
- Agency: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
- Main IPC: G06F17/00
- IPC: G06F17/00 ; G06F17/30 ; H04H60/25 ; H04H60/46 ; H04H60/65 ; H04H60/73 ; H04H20/26

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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