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Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2022

Filed:

Oct. 21, 2021
Applicant:

Viacom International Inc., New York, NY (US);

Inventors:

Gregg William Riedel, New York, NY (US);

Jonathan Edlin Clegg, New York, NY (US);

Jeff Hess, New York, NY (US);

Justin Keene Dorsa, New York, NY (US);

Assignee:

VIACOM INTERNATIONAL INC., New York, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/8547 (2011.01); H04N 21/2187 (2011.01); H04N 21/45 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/8547 (2013.01); H04N 21/2187 (2013.01); H04N 21/4532 (2013.01);
Abstract

An operations center that performs a method that includes receiving a live content feed of a live event, inserting a time indication in the live content feed to generate a marked feed, the time indication indicative of a receive time that the live content feed is received at the operations center, encoding the marked feed to generate an Internet Protocol (IP) feed, the IP feed being exchanged through the operations center, determining a read time during a skip offset process corresponding to when the time indication is identified in the skip offset process, determining a propagation delay based on the read time and the receive time and generating a broadcast output that transitions, based on the propagation delay, from one of (i) the live event to recorded content or (ii) recorded content to the live event.


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