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Kiran K Patibandla

Syed Mohasin Zaki

Narendra B Babu

Vinod Krishnan Surianarayanan

SriKamal Boyina

Saleem S Mohammed

Vijay Senthil Angayarkanni

Jacques Franklin

An approach is provided for injecting program markers in live media steams is presented. A first marker is injected into a live media stream to designate a start of a live program. A second marker is injected a into the live media stream to designate an end of the live program. The live stream with the injected markers is transcoded the for transmission to a set-top box.

Method and apparatus for injecting program markers in live media streams

An exemplary method includes an adaptive media content presentation system detecting an interaction of a user with a media content program, generating a playing pattern associated with the media content program based on the detected interaction of the user with the media content program, and applying the playing pattern to at least one of a presentation of the media content program and a presentation of an additional media content program. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.

Adaptive media content presentation methods and systems

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Tamil Nadu, India

Kiran K Patibandla