Method and system for TV everywhere authentication based on automatic content recognition

A system, comprising:

• an automatic content recognition (ACR)-enabled connected TV device, wherein:
• said ACR-enabled connected TV device comprises an ACR module that communicates with an ACR system that is external to said ACR-enabled connected TV device, and said ACR system assigns same interactive event identifiers to different sets of video fingerprints that are generated from same video content by different video fingerprint technologies from multiple vendors based on timing of assignment of the interactive event identifiers to multiple sequences of the video fingerprints that are generated from the same video content;
• said ACR module providing fingerprints to said ACR system for matching;
• said ACR module receiving information and/or content from said ACR system based on said matching;
• and
• said device is operable to:
• identify by said ACR module, utilizing said information received from said ACR system, a network to which said ACR-enabled connected TV device is being tuned, wherein said received information identifies one or more locations to take fingerprints of content being displayed on said ACR-enabled connected TV device;
• and
• perform by said ACR module, an authentication for presenting content through a TV everywhere (TVE) service associated with said identified network based on information identified by said ACR system.

A system, comprising:

• an automatic content recognition (ACR) system comprising:
• a fingerprint matching system;
• a plurality real-time fingerprint servers;
• wherein:
• the finger print matching system is communicatively coupled to the plurality of real-time fingerprint servers;
• and
• said ACR system assigns same interactive event identifiers to different sets of video fingerprints that are generated from same video content by different video fingerprint technologies from multiple vendors based on timing of assignment of the interactive event identifiers to multiple sequences of the video fingerprints that are generated from the same video content;
• and
• an ACR-enabled connected TV device comprising an ACR module, wherein said ACR-enabled connected TV device is communicatively coupled to said ACR system;
• wherein:
• said ACR module provides fingerprints to said ACR system for matching;
• said ACR module receives information and/or content from the ACR system based on said matching;
• and
• said ACR module identifies, utilizing said information received from said ACR system, a network to which said ACR-enabled connected TV device is being tuned, wherein said received information identifies one or more locations to take fingerprints of content being displayed on said ACR-enabled connected TV device;
• and
• said ACR module performs an authentication for presenting content through a TV everywhere (TVE) service associated with said identified network based on information identified by said ACR system.