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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2021
Iheartmedia Management Services, Inc., San Antonio, TX (US);
Jeff Littlejohn, Mason, OH (US);
Bobbi Denise Schuster, San Antonio, TX (US);
Keyin Hsu, San Antonio, TX (US);
Jennifer L. Smith, San Antonio, TX (US);
iHeartMedia Management Services, Inc., San Antonio, TX (US);
Abstract
A server receives, from a broadcast station, a message including a station identifier and a list of media-works scheduled for broadcast. The media-works are identified by identifying attributes. The server attempts a first-level match between identifying attributes associated with a first media-work and unique identifiers included in a database. The unique identifiers link content attributes of different media-works to different unique identifiers. The first-level match includes comparing the identifying attributes to the unique identifiers to determine whether an identifying attribute matches any of the unique identifiers stored in the database. If not, a second-level match compares the identifying attributes to content attributes of different media-works to identify content attributes that match the identifying attributes. If the second-level match identifies matching content attributes that link the media-work to a unique identifiers in the database, enhanced content is selected based on that unique identifier, and is delivered to the broadcast station.