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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2014
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);
Zhiying Jin, Lexington, MA (US);
Sarma Pydipally, Watertown, MA (US);
Haosheng Guo, Nashua, NH (US);
Haiyan Zhou, Winchester, MA (US);
Fang Zhu, Woburn, MA (US);
Jianxiu Hao, Acton, MA (US);
VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A video service provider system may include one or more devices. The one or more device may receive thumbnails of programs that are currently airing on a group of television channels and match the received thumbnails with metadata. The metadata may include information relating to at least one of the television channels or the programs. The one or more devices may further provide, to a remote device, a set of thumbnails, of the captured thumbnails, and the metadata matching the set of thumbnails. The remote device may make the set of thumbnails and the metadata available to a user.