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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2019
Iheartmedia Management Services, Inc., San Antonio, TX (US);
Dyon Anniballi, Wayne, PA (US);
Philippe Generali, Scarsdale, NY (US);
iHeartMedia Management Services, Inc., San Antonio, TX (US);
Abstract
First fingerprint data is accumulated in a first fingerprint buffer of a channel identification server in parallel with accumulation of second fingerprint data in a second fingerprint buffer of the channel identification server. The first and second fingerprint data include multiple fingerprints representing broadcast content broadcast by corresponding broadcast sources during contiguous time periods, and accumulating the fingerprints includes appending newly received first fingerprints to previously received first fingerprints to generate continuous fingerprints. The channel identification server also receives an unmatched fingerprint representing broadcast content received from an unknown broadcast source by the end-user device. The unmatched fingerprint into probes, which are scrubbed against both first and second continuous fingerprints in an attempt to determine a match between the unmatched fingerprint and either the first or second continuous fingerprint. The unknown broadcast source is identified based on that determination.