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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2015
The Directv Group, Inc., El Segundo, CA (US);
Hans M. Hagberg, Redondo Beach, CA (US);
Vladislav Kolegayev, Los Angles, CA (US);
The DIRECTV Group, Inc., El Segundo, CA (US);
Abstract
A content distribution system generates first metadata for an audio stream, generates second metadata indicative of audio content to be included in the audio stream within a predetermined period in the future relative to present time, generates an output stream including the audio stream, the first metadata, and the second metadata, and broadcasts the output stream to user devices. A user device receives the output stream, determines the audio content to be included within the predetermined period in the future based on the second metadata, determines when target pieces of audio content are scheduled to be included in the output stream during the predetermined period in the future, tunes to the output stream when the target pieces of audio are included in the output stream, and stores the target pieces of audio in memory of the user device.