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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. 04, 2017

Filed:

Jan. 13, 2016
Applicant:

This Technology, Llc., Philadelphia, PA (US);

Inventors:

John Raymond Mick, Jr., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Jeffrey Sherwin, Scarsdale, NY (US);

Bryan David Santangelo, Tulsa, OK (US);

Assignee:

This Technology, Inc., Philadelphia, PA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/10 (2006.01); H04N 21/24 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/2343 (2011.01); H04N 21/84 (2011.01); H04N 21/845 (2011.01); H04N 21/234 (2011.01); H04N 21/235 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/8352 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/2407 (2013.01); H04N 21/235 (2013.01); H04N 21/2343 (2013.01); H04N 21/2353 (2013.01); H04N 21/23424 (2013.01); H04N 21/44204 (2013.01); H04N 21/812 (2013.01); H04N 21/8352 (2013.01); H04N 21/84 (2013.01); H04N 21/8455 (2013.01); H04N 21/8456 (2013.01);
Abstract

A server receives metadata associated with an advertisement in a transport signal stream from an encoder, the metadata identifying a specified frame of the transport signal stream corresponding to a point in time of the advertisement. The server instructs an encoder, by a server, to insert a marker into the specified frame of the transport signal stream, the marker identifying the point in time of the advertisement. The server receives data from a smart appliance. The server detects the marker in the data. The server identifies the marker as the specified frame of the transport signal stream played by the smart appliance. The server maps the marker to the identified point in time of the advertisement.


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