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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2021

Filed:

Aug. 24, 2020
Applicant:

Gracenote, Inc., Emeryville, CA (US);

Inventors:

Vadim Brenner, San Francisco, CA (US);

Markus K. Cremer, Orinda, CA (US);

Assignee:

GRACENOTE, INC., Emeryville, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/683 (2019.01); G11B 27/11 (2006.01); G11B 27/036 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/683 (2019.01); G11B 27/036 (2013.01); G11B 27/11 (2013.01);
Abstract

Example methods and systems for inserting information into playing content are described. In some example embodiments, the methods and systems may identify at a playback device, content by comparing a fingerprint of the real-time content to reference fingerprints, each of the reference fingerprints corresponding to different media, identify, at the playback device, a break in the real-time content playing via the playback device based on the identification of the real-time content, select an information segment to present during the break based on information captured by a location determination component, and insert the information segment into the real-time content playing via the playback device upon an occurrence of the break.


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