Method and System for Remotely Controlling Consumer Electronic Devices

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon program instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a client device, cause the client device to perform operations in connection with a sequence of media content that includes a first portion followed by a second portion, the operations comprising:

• presenting the first portion of the sequence of media content;
• performing a content replacement operation, wherein performing the content replacement operation comprises presenting replacement media content instead of the second portion of the sequence of media content;
• while performing the content replacement operation:
• (i) monitoring advancement of the second portion of the sequence of media content by comparing fingerprint data representing the second portion of the sequence of media content with reference fingerprint data representing expected media content, and
• (ii) based on the monitoring by the client device, that the second portion of the sequence of media content was interrupted by interrupting media content;
• and
• responsive to determining that the second portion of the sequence of media content was interrupted by interrupting media content, switching from presenting the replacement media content to presenting the interrupting media content instead.

A client device comprising one or more processors and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon program instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the client device to perform operations in connection with a sequence of media content that includes a first portion followed by a second portion, the operations comprising:

• presenting the first portion of the sequence of media content;
• performing a content replacement operation, wherein performing the content replacement operation comprises presenting replacement media content instead of the second portion of the sequence of media content;
• while performing the content replacement operation:
• (i) monitoring advancement of the second portion of the sequence of media content by comparing fingerprint data representing the second portion of the sequence of media content with reference fingerprint data representing expected media content, and
• (ii) based on the monitoring, determining that the second portion of the sequence of media content was interrupted by interrupting media content;
• and
• responsive to determining that the second portion of the sequence of media content was interrupted by interrupting media content, switching from presenting the replacement media content to presenting the interrupting media content instead.