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US 2013/0097632 A1Published application
Synchronization to broadcast media
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.
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A method comprising:
- receiving a stream of synchronization markers from a plurality of clients, each one of the synchronization markers characterizing time-based media to which one of the clients is exposed;
- identifying an item of time-based media common to two or more of the plurality of clients, wherein the item of time-based media is a live broadcast;
- monitoring the stream of synchronization markers from the two or more of the plurality of clients to detect a divergence in the stream of synchronization markers for at least one of the two or more clients, wherein a second stream of synchronization markers different from the stream of synchronization markers is received from the at least one of the two or more clients;
- when the second stream of synchronization markers does not correspond to a predetermined item of time based media, flagging the second stream of synchronization markers as relating to new commercial content.
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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:
- receiving a stream of synchronization markers from a plurality of clients, each one of the synchronization markers characterizing time-based media to which one of the clients is exposed;
- identifying an item of time-based media common to two or more of the plurality of clients, wherein the item of time-based media is a live broadcast;
- monitoring the stream of synchronization markers from the two or more of the plurality of clients to detect a divergence in the stream of synchronization markers for at least one of the two or more clients, wherein a second stream of synchronization markers different from the stream of synchronization markers is received from the at least one of the two or more clients;
- when the second stream of synchronization markers does not correspond to a pre-identified commercial, flagging the second stream of synchronization markers as relating to new commercial content.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.