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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2014
Filed:
May. 02, 2013
This Technology, Inc., Denver, CO (US);
John Raymond Mick, Jr., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jeffrey Sherwin, Scarsdale, NY (US);
Bryan David Santangelo, Tulsa, OK (US);
This Technology, Inc., Denver, CO (US);
Abstract
A method and system for reporting a percentage of an advertisement playable by a smart appliance is disclosed. A server receives metadata associated with an advertisement in a transport signal stream from an encoder. The server determines a length of the advertisement and a frame rate of the transport signal stream based on the received metadata. The server divides the advertisement into at least one segment based on the length and the frame rate. The server instructs the encoder to insert at least one marker into at least one frame of the advertisement corresponding to the at least one segment of the transport signal stream to create at least one marked segment.