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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2015

Filed:

Jun. 25, 2012
Applicants:

Hilliard Bruce Siegel, Seattle, WA (US);

Kenneth P. Fishkin, Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Hilliard Bruce Siegel, Seattle, WA (US);

Kenneth P. Fishkin, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

IMBD.com, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/16 (2011.01); H04N 21/4784 (2011.01); H04N 21/482 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4784 (2013.01); H04N 21/4826 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed are various embodiments relating to the identification of events that occur within a media item. A media item and a request are encoded for rendering for display, wherein the request relates to an occurrence of an event in the media item. The media item and the request are transmitted to a plurality of clients. A plurality of replies are received in response to the request, wherein each of the replies comprises a timestamp indicating a time relative to the media item. The existence of an event in the media item is determined based at least in part on a clustering of at least a subset of the replies.


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