Device for uninterrupted listening to radio broadcast
OwnerRobert IZRAELIinventor
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Abstract
A device for playing and recording real time broadcast radio includes a storage device, an audio output component, a control unit and an input interface. Data received from a radio receiver are recorded in the storage device. When a pause command is received from the input interface the real-time broadcast is paused, a marker is placed in the current position in memory and the received data continue to be recorded in the storage device.
Claims24
A device for playing and recording real time broadcast radio and for playing back recorded broadcast radio comprising:
- a) a storage device for recording data received from a radio receiver, thereby providing the recorded broadcast radio;
- b) an audio output component for playing said data;
- c) a control unit for operating said storage device and said audio output component;
- and
- d) an input interface for sending instructions to said control unit, wherein said instructions include:
- i) a pause command set of instructions that instruct said control unit to:
- A) stop the playing of the real time broadcast radio;
- and
- B) insert a marker at a current position in the recorded broadcast radio;
- while continuing to record the real time broadcast radio to said storage device.
A method for playing and recording real time broadcast radio and for playing back recorded broadcast radio, the method comprising the steps of:
- a) receiving data from a radio receiver;
- b) starting to record said received data as recorded data;
- c) upon receipt of an interrupt command:
- i) stopping playing of said received data;
- and
- ii) inserting a marker at a current position in said recorded data;
- while continuing said recording of said received data;
- and
- d) upon receipt of a play command starting the playing back of said recorded data from said marker.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.