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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2012
Applicant:
Sling Media, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Inventor:
Brian Lucas, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sling Media, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/173 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of determining whether live media content or time-shifted media content is received at a computing device such as a server or media player is presented. Attribute information concerning media content received at a communication device at a specific time is received and compared schedule information. The received media content is determined to be live media content if the media content identity agrees with the schedule information. The received media content is determined to be time-shifted media content if the media content identity does not agree with the schedule information.