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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2018
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);
Eduardo Jimenez, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ilyssa Widen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rodrigo Meneses, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Mahesh Kumar Vasanthusomashekar, Newark, CA (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
An example may include identifying broadcast content, where the broadcast content includes program content of a program; identifying a scheduled start time of a time slot associated with the broadcast content; determining whether the broadcast content includes overflow content based on whether the broadcast content includes at least one of end credits or a break; and when the broadcast content does include the overflow content: determining an end time of the overflow content of the broadcast content; determining an actual start time of the program content based on the end time of the overflow content; and performing an action to enable a media client to play back the broadcast content, where the action enables the media client to begin play back at the actual start time of the program content.