Gracenote, Inc.

Roku, Inc.

Comcast IP Holdings I, LLC

Diva Systems Corporation

Sedna Patent Services, LLC

Cox Communications, Inc.

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Activevideo Networks, Inc.

Charter Communications Operating, LLC

Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC

Sedna Patent Serivces, LLC

Donald F Gordon

Sadik Bayrakeri

Edward Anthony Ludvig

Jeremy S Edmonds

John P Comito

Eugene Gershtein

Christopher Goode

Nathan W Osborn

Markus Kurt Cremer

Peter Dunker

Joseph R Wild

Mark D Conover

Harold P Yocom

Roger Van Der Laan

Philip A Thomas

Danny Chin

Yong Ho Son

Michael Toy

Brooks Cole

Jack Van Der Star

Stanley Knight

Thomas Paquin

Mike Roper

Brian Feinberg

Ted Ludvig

Alfred C Li

Daniel Illowsky

Tobie J LaRocca

Lena Pavlovskaia

Airan Landau

Phillip A Thomas

Mike R Colligan

Tobie La Rocca

Andreas Lennartsson

Christopher W B Goode

Hsuehmin Li

Charles Lawrence

Ellen Rose Fratzke

Edmonds S Jeremy

Robert T Cala

Arleen F Delos Reyes

Charlie Lawrence

Greg Brown

Christoper Goode

Geoff Cleary

Glenn M Cloud

Stanley P Knight

Jack Vander Star

Gregory E Brown

Christopher Wb Goode

Lena Y Pavlovskaia

A media system replaces content in a first sequence of media content. The media system presents the first sequence of media content to an end-user and generates a fingerprint of the sequence of media content. The fingerprint is for comparison with a plurality of reference fingerprints so as to identify the first sequence of media content and determine a reference position within the first sequence of media content. The media system sends a request for a replacement sequence of content to a content replacement system, and receives replacement media content selected based on the identified first sequence of media content. The media system presents the replacement media content to the end-user instead of the first sequence of media content. Presenting the replacement media content begins at a position in the first sequence of media content that is determined based on the reference position.

Method and system for remotely controlling consumer electronic devices

A media system, receives a received sequence of media content, for presentation at the media system and generates a comparison fingerprint of the received sequence of media content. The comparison fingerprint is for comparison with a plurality of reference fingerprints so as to identify the received sequence of media content. The media system sends a request for identification of additional content to a server system. The request is based at least in part on the comparison fingerprint. The media system receives a response to the request, including information enabling additional content to be selected for display at the media system based at least in part on the identification of the received sequence of media content, and presents a displayed sequence of media content that includes at least a portion of the received sequence of media content and at least a portion of the additional content.

Method and system for presenting additional content at a media system

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for porting locally processed media data with low latency to a remote client device via various wireless links are provided. In one example embodiment, a transceiver module may include a local network interface and a controller that may receive a client control signal from a client device over a wireless local area network via the local network interface, transmit a media control signal based on the client control signal to a media device, receive media data based on the media control signal from the media device, and transmit to the client device over the wireless local area network via the local network interface client data based on the media data and a low-latency compression technique. The receipt of the media data and transmission of the client data may be accomplished with substantially no detectable latency. Additional embodiments are also provided.

Porting locally processed media data with low latency to a remote client device via various wireless links

Methods and systems to authorize devices and/or perform other actions based on identifying content distributors are described. In some example embodiments, the methods and systems access video content playing at a client device, calculate fingerprints of a portion of the video content, identify a distributor of the video content based on the fingerprints, and perform an action in response to the identification of the distributor of the video content, such as actions to authorize the client device or other associated devices (e.g., second screens) to receive content from the distributor, actions to present sponsored content to the client device or associated devices, and so on.

Authorizing devices based on identifying content distributor

Method and system for remotely controlling consumer electronic device

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Donald F Gordon