Apparatus and methods for providing text information identifying audio program selections

Patent RE40836 Issued on July 7, 2009.

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Inventor

Mankovitz, Roy J.

Application

No. 09796684 filed on 03/01/2001

US Classes:

455/66.1Having diverse art device

Examiners

Primary: Sobutka, Philip J

Foreign Patent References

2214739 GB 09/01/1989
64-068028 JP 03/01/1989

International Classes

H04H 40/00
H04H 60/00

Abstract

Apparatus and methods are disclosed for providing text information which identifies audio program selections, such as musical selections, stored on a compact disk (CD). Digital identification numbers encoded on the disk are provided by a compact disk player to a digital processor having a memory storage device. The identification numbers include an album identification number, and the track number selected for play. The memory storage device has stored therein text data identifying a plurality of program selections, organized by album and track identification number. The identification signals provided by the CD player are used to address the proper identifying text data for the selection being played. The identifying text data may be organized for radio broadcast along with the musical selection, and a receiver is used to display the data in text form to identify the musical selection as it is being reproduced.

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