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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2011
Sean Curtis, Rockville Center, NY (US);
Frank Conway, Hoboken, NJ (US);
David Charles Lankford, New York, NY (US);
Deepak Jhalani, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Ryan Case, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Sean Curtis, Rockville Center, NY (US);
Frank Conway, Hoboken, NJ (US);
David Charles Lankford, New York, NY (US);
Deepak Jhalani, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Ryan Case, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Sling Media, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for identifying instances of media programming available within a media distribution system. An exemplary method involves searching a listing of media programming available from a first content source using search criteria indicative of a desired media program to identify an instance of the desired media program available from the first content source, obtaining a target program identifier associated with the desired media program from that instance, identifying another instance of the desired media program in a second listing of media programming available from another content source using the target program identifier, and providing a combined search result that indicates availability of the desired media program from the content sources.