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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2019
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ingrid McAulay Trollope, Richmond, GB;
Ant Oztaskent, Sutton Surrey, GB;
Yaroslav Volovich, Cambridge, GB;
GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method at a computing system includes receiving from a first device a request from a user indirectly referencing a media content item and content information including one or more portions of audio and/or video components of media playing in proximity to the first device in response to the user request, the media having originated from a third party content provider independent of the server system; and in response to receiving the user request and the content information from the first device: matching the content information received from the first device to a portion of content stored in the server system; and identifying the media content item based on the matching.