Interactive video distribution systems – Commercial or program airing verification system
Reexamination Certificate
2011-05-10
2011-05-10
Salce, Jason P (Department: 2421)
Interactive video distribution systems
Commercial or program airing verification system
C725S009000, C725S011000, C725S014000, C725S015000, C725S016000, C725S017000, C725S018000, C725S019000, C725S020000, C725S051000, C725S112000, C725S115000, C725S136000, C725S032000, C725S034000, C725S035000, C725S036000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07941816
ABSTRACT:
A detection apparatus includes a tuner tuned to the program and a meter coupled to the tuner and arranged to detect content ancillary information from the program tuned by the tuner. The content ancillary information may be a media link, closed captioning information, or the like. The meter may also be arranged to extract a broadcast signature from the program. A comparator compares the broadcast signature to a reference signature selected from a library of reference signatures based upon the content ancillary information. Broadcast signatures from unknown programs may be clustered at least partially on the basis of the content ancillary information.
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Feininger William A.
Harkness David H.
Lu Daozheng
Smithpeters Craig M.
Hanley Flight & Zimmerman LLC
Salce Jason P
The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
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