System and Method for Selecting Input Feeds to a Media Player
AssigneeSwisscom AG
InventorUrs-Viktor Marti
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Abstract
A system and method are provided for enabling a plurality of media feeds, such as internet radio stations, to be played through a standard media player, such as a radio receiving device, using the tuning or input selection controls of the media player to control the selection of which media feed to play. Identification signatures are added to channels and transmitted to the media player by transmitter. A controller captures the feedback of the media player and, if it detects one of the signature signals in the feedback, instructs the media feed selector to select a media feed which corresponds to the detected identification signature. The selected audio feed may then be transmitted to the media player on the corresponding channel for playback.
Claims20
A system, comprising:
- one or more circuits for use in receiving and/or processing media feeds, the one or more circuits being operable to:
- select, based on a received signature signal, a media feed from a plurality of media feeds;
- transmit to a media player, the selected media feed, over a first channel;
- transmit to the media player, one or more signature signals, over one or more other channels;
- and
- determine the received signature signal from a feedback signal, corresponding to an output signal of the media player.
A method comprising:
- selecting, based on a received signature signal, a media feed of a plurality of media feeds;
- transmitting to a media player the selected media feed, over a first channel;
- transmitting to the media player one or more signature signals, over one or more other channels;
- and
- determining the received signature signal from a feedback signal, corresponding to an output signal of the media player.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.