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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. 18, 2017

Filed:

Sep. 05, 2014
Applicant:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);

Inventors:

Si Ying Diana Hu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Suri B. Medapati, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04N 21/845 (2011.01); H04N 21/8352 (2011.01); H04N 21/8405 (2011.01); H04N 21/8549 (2011.01); H04N 5/765 (2006.01); H04N 21/25 (2011.01); H04N 21/258 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/8456 (2013.01); G06F 17/30038 (2013.01); G06F 17/30353 (2013.01); H04N 5/765 (2013.01); H04N 21/252 (2013.01); H04N 21/25891 (2013.01); H04N 21/8352 (2013.01); H04N 21/8405 (2013.01); H04N 21/8549 (2013.01);
Abstract

An exemplary method of identifying a media program clip associated with a trending topic includes receiving a plurality of media content streams representative of a plurality of media programs, detecting, while the media content streams are being received, caption data included in the media content streams and associated with the media programs, identifying, based on the detected caption data, a trending topic associated with the plurality of media programs, and identifying a media program clip associated with the trending topic. Corresponding systems and methods are also described.


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