US Patent Issued to Gracenote on March 4 for "Generation of media station previews using a secondary tuner" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,257, issued on March 4, was assigned to Gracenote Inc. (New York).

"Generation of media station previews using a secondary tuner" was invented by John M. Qin (San Francisco), Suresh Jeyachandran (Alameda, Calif.) and Damon P. Fasching (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, an example method includes (i) while a media playback device of a vehicle is playing back content received on a first channel, generating, by the media playback device, a query fingerprint using second content received on a second channel; (ii) sending, by the media playback device, the query fingerprint to a server that maintains a reference ...