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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2024
Directv, Llc, El Segundo, CA (US);
Connie Cuiyuan He, San Gabriel, CA (US);
Tristan Neima Arian, Houston, TX (US);
Navyata Sree Awasthi, Austin, TX (US);
Rainier Sumalde Mendoza, Duarte, CA (US);
DIRECTV, LLC, El Segundo, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed. An example apparatus to identify advertisement misalignment, the apparatus comprising: interface circuitry; machine-readable instructions; and programmable circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine-readable instructions to: identify a timestamp using a manifest file of a video stream, the timestamp corresponding to a start of a dynamic advertisement insertion (DAI); form a list of consecutive video segments, the list including at least a content segment that ends at the timestamp and a DAI segment that begins at the timestamp; determine that a transition from the content segment to the DAI segment fails to satisfy a quality threshold; and flag the timestamp as a misalignment.