Methods and apparatus to monitor advertising on media access clients
AssigneeDirectv, LLC
InventorsSurendiran Dhayala Rajan, Suroor Wizarath Ali, Sai Ramya Krishna Singuluri, Mark Anthony Diaz Rocha
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Abstract
Disclosed examples include accessing a first media asset log and a second media asset log, the intermediate client device to communicate with a plurality of media access clients and to communicate with a remote service; parsing the first media asset log based on a determination that the first media asset log corresponds to a client-side advertisement insertion type; and transmitting the second media asset log to the remote service without parsing the second media asset log at the intermediate client device based on a determination that the second media asset log corresponds to a server-side advertisement insertion type.
Claims19
An apparatus comprising:
- memory;
- machine-readable instructions in the memory;
- and
- programmable circuitry to be programmed by the machine-readable instructions to at least:
- access a media asset identifier in a first command from a remote service;
- generate a second command based on a media access client type identified in the first command, the second command to include the media asset identifier;
- cause transmission of the second command to a first media access client of the media access client type;
- access a first media asset log generated by the first media access client, the first media asset log based on the first media access client accessing media corresponding to the media asset identifier;
- parse the first media asset log based on a determination that the first media asset log corresponds to a client-side advertisement insertion type;
- after performing a verification process on the first media asset log, causing transmission of the first media asset log to the remote service;
- access a second media asset log from a second media access client;
- and
- based on a determination that the second media asset log corresponds to a server-side advertisement insertion type, cause transmission of the second media asset log to the remote service without parsing the second media asset log before the transmission of the second media asset log.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions to cause programmable circuitry at an intermediate client device to at least:
- access a first media asset log and a second media asset log, the intermediate client device to communicate with a plurality of media access clients and to communicate with a remote service;
- parse the first media asset log based on a determination that the first media asset log corresponds to a client-side advertisement insertion type;
- and
- cause transmission of the second media asset log to the remote service without parsing the second media asset log at the intermediate client device based on a determination that the second media asset log corresponds to a server-side advertisement insertion type.
A method comprising:
- receiving a first media asset log at an intermediate client device, the intermediate client device in communication with a plurality of media access clients and in communication with a remote service;
- receiving a second media asset log at the intermediate client device;
- determining, by programmable circuitry programmed by at least one instruction, whether the first media asset log corresponds to a server-side advertisement insertion type or a client-side advertisement insertion type;
- determining, by the programmable circuitry, whether the second media asset log corresponds to the server-side advertisement insertion type or the client-side advertisement insertion type;
- parsing, by the programmable circuitry, the first media asset log at the intermediate client device based on a determination that the first media asset log corresponds to the client-side advertisement insertion type;
- and
- causing, by the programmable circuitry, transmission of the second media asset log to the remote service without parsing the second media asset log at the intermediate client device based on a determination that the second media asset log corresponds to the server-side advertisement insertion type.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.