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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2016
Centurylink Intellectual Property Llc, Denver, CO (US);
Gnanasekaran Swaminathan, Monroe, LA (US);
Steven M. Casey, Littleton, CO (US);
Felipe Castro, Erie, CO (US);
CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC, Broomfield, CO (US);
Abstract
Novel tools and techniques might provide for implementing media content tracking functionality, and, in particular embodiments, implementing temporal markers for tracking at least partial playback of media content. In various embodiments, a computing system might receive a request for media content from a user over a network, and might retrieve the media content from a database. A transcoder might insert temporal markers in a transport stream of the media content, which is sent to the user device. The user device might decode the transport stream, might track each temporal marker as the media content is presented to the user, might generate a message by compiling a list of the accessed temporal markers, and might send the message to the computing system. The computing system might receive the message comprising the list of temporal markers, which are indicative of portions of the media content that were actually presented to the user.