A technique of providing advertisements in a traffic message is provided that obtains (704) traffic data having a traffic condition of a location description on a road network. A location reference code associated with the location description assigned by a traffic message supplier and an advertising reference code associated with the location reference code are assessed (706), (714), followed by a determination (716) as to whether the advertising reference code is present. If so, a traffic message having the location reference code and the advertising reference code is generated (710).

A method includes a step of reading in the radio data signal and a radio data clock signal, a step of integrating a signal that is a function of the radio data signal and/or the radio data clock signal in order to determine an integral value curve, a step of decoding radio data signal information from the integral value curve, using the radio data clock signal and/or a phase position of the radio data signal, a step of ascertaining radio data signal quality information which represents the credibility of the decoded radio data signal information, using the radio data signal and/or the phase position of the radio data signal, and a step of providing the radio data signal information and the radio data signal quality information in order to provide a conditioned radio data signal.

The invention relates to a method for decoding a received RDS signal (R), comprising the following steps: determining an extreme value from among the absolute values of the RDS signal (R) integrals obtained in an elementary range interval (Te), and sliding from a starting point in at least one slide range (Tg); and extracting a binary pattern 0 if the extreme value is a minimum value, and a binary pattern 1 if the extreme value is a maximum value.

A method improves audio acquisition time by nascent signal caching. The receiver system includes the processor which contains the ASRC (Arbitrary Sample Rate Converter), demodulator, channel splitter, channel decoder and middleware & application along with the secondary storage system. The nascent digital broadcast radio signal after the sample rate conversion is cached in a secondary storage and given as input to the demodulator. The demodulator starts the demodulation process over the received signal by utilizing default channel parameters and detects the channel parameters of the received signal. If the default channel parameters are different from the detected channel parameters, the demodulator starts the re-demodulation process with the detected channel parameters over the nascent digital signal cached in the secondary storage, instead of waiting for a subsequently transmitted signal, thereby improving the audio acquisition time.

A broadcast response system provides, e.g., a radio broadcast listener with the ability to obtain media content such as music or speech while listening to the radio. The user can respond to items in the radio broadcast such as advertisements, fund raising drives, or interactive listener polls during the broadcast. Data such as song title and artist, author or publisher and the IP address for the location where the digital version of the content is stored, can be transmitted using, e.g., the RBDS/RDS data stream. A reference number representing song title and artist, author or publisher and the IP address for the location where the digital version of the content is stored can also be employed for ease of implementation. This reference number can reside in a lookup table to be accessed by broadcast response server.

A broadcast response system provides, e.g., a radio broadcast listener with the ability to obtain media content such as music or speech while listening to the radio. The user can respond to items in the radio broadcast such as advertisements, fund raising drives, or interactive listener polls during the broadcast. Data such as song title and artist, author or publisher and the IP address for the location where the digital version of the content is stored, can be transmitted using, e.g., the RBDS/RDS data stream. A reference number representing song title and artist, author or publisher and the IP address for the location where the digital version of the content is stored can also be employed for ease of implementation. This reference number can reside in a lookup table to be accessed by broadcast response server.

Methods and systems are provided for radio data system (RDS) feed data in a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving, by a processor, RDS feed data; processing, by a processor, the RDS feed data to determine a classification of the RDS feed data to be at least one of active programming and advertisement; and storing, by a processor, information extracted from the RDS feed data based on the classification.

The present disclosure relates to a method and system for receiving a broadcast signal. The system includes a broadcast receiver device having two receiving units, two decoding units, a combining unit and a further processing unit. A broadcast signal is received by both receiving units, so that two reception signals are provided. From each reception signal, a raw data stream is extracted and decoded by the decoding units. It is checked if the data stream provided by each decoding unit is complete. If a first data stream is complete, it is processed by the further processing unit. If the first data stream is incomplete and the second data stream is complete, the second data stream is further processed. If both data streams are incomplete, they will be combined to a combined data stream by the combining unit, the combined data stream being further processed, if it is complete.

A broadcast response system provides, e.g., a radio broadcast listener with the ability to obtain media content such as music or speech while listening to the radio. The user can respond to items in the radio broadcast such as advertisements, fund raising drives, or interactive listener polls during the broadcast. Data such as song title and artist, author or publisher and the IP address for the location where the digital version of the content is stored, can be transmitted using, e.g., the RBDS/RDS data stream. A reference number representing song title and artist, author or publisher and the IP address for the location where the digital version of the content is stored can also be employed for ease of implementation. This reference number can reside in a lookup table to be accessed by broadcast response server.

A method improves audio acquisition time by nascent signal caching. The receiver system includes the processor which contains the ASRC (Arbitrary Sample Rate Converter), demodulator, channel splitter, channel decoder and middleware & application along with the secondary storage system. The nascent digital broadcast radio signal after the sample rate conversion is cached in a secondary storage and given as input to the demodulator. The demodulator starts the demodulation process over the received signal by utilizing default channel parameters and detects the channel parameters of the received signal. If the default channel parameters are different from the detected channel parameters, the demodulator starts the re-demodulation process with the detected channel parameters over the nascent digital signal cached in the secondary storage, instead of waiting for a subsequently transmitted signal, thereby improving the audio acquisition time.