Method and system for re-uniting metadata with media-stream content at a media client, to facilitate action by the media client

A computing system comprising:

• a capture server configured to:
• receive, through a first channel, a copy of a channel feed carrying a media stream, wherein the channel feed is also broadcasted through a second channel for delivery of the media stream to a media client, and the channel feed further includes metadata in-band with the media stream and correlated with a frame of the media stream;
• generate reference fingerprint data representing the frame of the media stream;
• and
• extract the metadata from the channel feed;
• and
• an automatic content recognition (ACR) service including a server application configured to transmit out-of-band through the first channel to the media client the generated reference fingerprint data in correlation with the extracted metadata, wherein the correlation of the extracted metadata with the reference fingerprint data representing the frame of the media stream is useable by the media client as a basis to re-correlate the metadata with the frame of the media stream, so as to enable the media client to carry out an action based on the correlation of the metadata with the frame of the media stream,
• in response to a determination that the media client does not receive the metadata with the channel feed through the second channel for delivery of the media stream.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying program instructions executable by one or more processors to carry out operations in a communication system the operations including:

• receiving, by a computing system through a first channel, a copy of a channel feed carrying a media stream, wherein the channel feed is also broadcasted through a second channel for delivery of the media stream to a media client, and the channel feed further includes metadata in-band with the media stream and correlated with a frame of the media stream;
• determining, that the metadata is removed from the channel feed when the media stream reaches the media client through the second channel and the media client receives the media stream without the metadata;
• extracting the metadata from the channel feed;
• and
• transmitting in an out-of-band message through the first channel to the media client, the extracted metadata in correlation with reference fingerprint data representing the frame of the media stream, wherein the correlation of the extracted metadata with the reference fingerprint data representing the frame of the media stream is useable by the media client as a basis to re-correlate the metadata with the frame of the media stream, so as to enable the media client to carry out an action based on the correlation of the metadata with the frame of the media stream.