US 2021/0344983 A1 · METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MONITOR ON-DEMAND MEDIA

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to monitor on-demand media. Example apparatus disclosed herein include a metadata collection controller to collect metadata associated with on-demand media in response to publication of the on-demand media. Disclosed example apparatus also include a download controller to download the on-demand media. Disclosed example apparatus further include a signature generator to generate one or more signatures representative of the on-demand media, and store a profile of the on-demand media in a data storage, the profile including the one or more signatures and the metadata associated with the on-demand media.

Claims21

Dependent claims

An apparatus comprising:

a metadata collection controller to collect metadata associated with on-demand media in response to publication of the on-demand media;
a download controller to download the on-demand media;
a signature generator to:
generate one or more reference signatures representative of the on-demand media;
and
store a profile of the on-demand media in a reference library, the profile including the one or more reference signatures and the metadata associated with the on-demand media;
and
a media matching controller to compare one or more sample signatures to the one or more reference signatures included in the profile of the on-demand media that was stored in the reference library.

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A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions which, when executed, cause at least one processor to at least:

collect metadata associated with on-demand media in response to publication of the on-demand media;
download the on-demand media;
generate one or more reference signatures representative of the on-demand media;
store a profile of the on-demand media in a reference library, the profile including the one or more reference signatures and the metadata associated with the on-demand media;
and
compare one or more sample signatures to the one or more reference signatures included in the profile of the on-demand media that was stored in the reference library.

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An apparatus comprising:

means for collecting metadata to collect metadata associated with on-demand media in response to publication of the on-demand media;
means for controlling audience measurement entity downloads to download the on-demand media;
means for signature generating to:
generate one or more reference signatures representative of the on-demand media;
and
store a profile of the on-demand media in a reference library, the profile including the one or more reference signatures and the metadata associated with the on-demand media;
and
means for matching media to compare one or more sample signatures to the one or more reference signatures included in the profile of the on-demand media that was stored in the reference library.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/863,210Filed 30 Apr 2020

Published

4 Nov 2021

Term ends

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Classification15 codes

H04N 21/2408
Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. monitoring of server load, available bandwidth, upstream requests: monitoring of the upstream path of…
H04N 21/47202
End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content…: for…
G06F 16/483
Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually: using metadata automatically…
H04H 60/29
Arrangements for broadcast applications with a direct linking to broadcast information or broadcast space-time; Broadcast-related systems:…

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