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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2009
Brian Lucas, San Francisco, CA (US);
Brian Lucas, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sling Media, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of determining whether live media content or time-shifted media content is received at a communication device is presented. In the method, attribute information concerning media content received at a communication device at a specific time is received. Also received is schedule information including an identity of media content carried at the specific time over a channel identified in the attribute information. The media content identity from the attribute information is compared with the media content identity from the schedule information. The received media content is determined to be live media content if the media content identity from the attribute information agrees with the media content identity from the schedule information. The received media content is determined to be time-shifted media content if the media content identity from the attribute information does not agree with the media content identity from the schedule information.