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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2020
Hulu, Llc, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Mckay Salisbury, Culver City, CA (US);
Peter Moore, Encino, CA (US);
Karthik Prasanna, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Xiaoming Sun, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Tong Yang, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Srivardhan Jalan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Arkin Yetis, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
HULU, LLC, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Abstract
In some embodiments, a method receives a message that identifies an asset being viewed on a video service at a timestamp. The message is associated with a profile identifier and a plurality of messages are received for the profile identifier while using the video service. The method determines a channel identifier for a channel in which the asset is offered during the timestamp and determines whether a channel change occurred based on the channel identifier and a prior channel identifier determined from a prior message in the plurality of messages. When the channel change has occurred, the method stores the channel identifier and timestamp for the profile identifier in a data structure, wherein a list of channels is generated by querying the data structure to determine a set of channel identifiers and timestamps for the profile identifier.