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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2014
The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, Schaumburg, IL (US);
David Henry Harkness, Wilton, CT (US);
Arun Ramaswamy, Tampa, FL (US);
Jerome Samson, Belleair, FL (US);
Jan Besehanic, Tampa, FL (US);
Venugopal Srinivasan, Palm Harbor, FL (US);
Alexander Pavlovich Topchy, New Port Richey, FL (US);
The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to provide media content are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes receiving an audio signal output by a first media presentation device, the audio signal being associated with first media content, decoding the audio signal to extract a code from the audio signal, the code identifying at least one of the first media content or a broadcaster of the first media content, setting a clock using a timestamp associated with the code, obtaining second media content based on the code and the timestamp, the second media content comprising a plurality of pieces of secondary content for respective ones of a plurality of timestamps, and presenting, at a second media presentation device, a first of the plurality of pieces of secondary media when its respective timestamp substantially corresponds to a time value obtained from the clock.