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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:
May. 23, 2017

Filed:

May. 22, 2015
Applicant:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Steven Keith Hines, San Francisco, CA (US);

Timbo Drayson, London, GB;

Assignee:

GOOGLE INC., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04N 21/439 (2011.01); H04N 21/4402 (2011.01); H04N 21/4722 (2011.01); H04N 21/6543 (2011.01); H04N 21/658 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/8405 (2011.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04N 7/088 (2006.01); H04N 21/478 (2011.01); H04N 21/4782 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4394 (2013.01); G06F 17/30796 (2013.01); H04N 7/0882 (2013.01); H04N 21/440236 (2013.01); H04N 21/478 (2013.01); H04N 21/4722 (2013.01); H04N 21/4782 (2013.01); H04N 21/6543 (2013.01); H04N 21/6582 (2013.01); H04N 21/8106 (2013.01); H04N 21/8133 (2013.01); H04N 21/8405 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for using an audio stream to identify metadata associated with a currently playing television program are disclosed. A video stream including audio description data is received. A set of information is determined from the audio description data. A request including the set of information is sent to a server remotely located from the client for additional processing. A set of instructions is received from the server. The set of instructions is determined based on the additional processing of the set of information. One or more applications are executed in accordance with the set of instructions in response to receiving the set of instructions.


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