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US 2013/0097190 A1Published application
Supplementing synchronization with programming metadata
OwnerAjay Shahinventor
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Abstract
A variety of enhancements are described for synchronizing delivery of content to media that includes a mix of live television, re-broadcast television, recorded television, and pre-recorded multi-media.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- providing a database of synchronization markers for a number of broadcast programs, each one of the synchronization markers non-uniquely identifying a time-based sample of one of the number of broadcast programs;
- providing a programming guide indicating broadcast times for the number of broadcast programs;
- receiving a sequence of current synchronization markers from a device;
- generating a number of candidate matches to a number of time offsets within one or more of the number of broadcast programs based upon the sequence of current synchronization markers;
- and
- filtering one or more of the number of candidate matches with a filter based upon the programming guide.
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A computer program product comprising computer executable code embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium that, when executing on one or more computing devices, performs the steps of:
- providing a database of synchronization markers for a number of broadcast programs, each one of the synchronization markers non-uniquely identifying a time-based sample of one of the number of broadcast programs;
- providing a programming guide indicating broadcast times for the number of broadcast programs;
- receiving a sequence of current synchronization markers from a device;
- generating a number of candidate matches to a number of time offsets within one or more of the number of broadcast programs based upon the sequence of current synchronization markers;
- and
- filtering one or more of the number of candidate matches with a filter based upon the programming guide.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.