Methods and apparatus to detect content skipping by a consumer of a recorded program
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1. A method of detecting portions of a recorded program that were not played back in real time comprising:
- storing a plurality of recording times of sections of the recorded program in association with playback times of the recorded program; and
comparing playback intervals between sequential pairs of the playback times with corresponding recording intervals between sequential pairs of the recording times to determine if any portion of the recorded program was not played back in real time.
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus to detect content skipping by a consumer of a recorded program are disclosed. In a disclosed method, a plurality of recording times of sections of a recorded program are stored in association with playback times of the recorded program. Playback intervals between sequential pairs of the playback times are compared with corresponding recording intervals between sequential pairs of the recording times to determine if any portion of the recorded program was not played back in real time.
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1. A method of detecting portions of a recorded program that were not played back in real time comprising:
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storing a plurality of recording times of sections of the recorded program in association with playback times of the recorded program; and comparing playback intervals between sequential pairs of the playback times with corresponding recording intervals between sequential pairs of the recording times to determine if any portion of the recorded program was not played back in real time. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. An article of manufacture storing machine readable instructions which, when executed, cause a machine to:
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store a plurality of recording times of sections of a recorded program in association with playback times of the recorded program; and compare playback intervals between sequential pairs of the playback times with corresponding recording intervals between sequential pairs of the recording times to determine if any portion of the recorded program was not played back in real time. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46)
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47. An apparatus to detect portions of a recorded program that were not played back in real time comprising:
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a time stamper to record a plurality of recording times in association with a recorded program; a memory to store the recorded program; a presentation time retriever to retrieve the recording time of a section of the recorded program being played back and to store the retrieved recording time in association with a playback time;
an interval detector to identify recording intervals between sequential ones of the plurality of recording times; anda difference detector to determine if a difference exists between a recording interval and a playback interval, wherein the difference detector compares playback intervals between sequential pairs of playback times with corresponding recording intervals between sequential pairs of recording times to determine if any portion of the recorded program was not played back in real time. - View Dependent Claims (48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69)
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70. A method of identifying a portion of a recorded program that was not played in real time comprising:
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computing a first difference between a first recording time and a second recording time; and comparing the first difference to a second difference between a first playback time and a second playback time to determine if a portion of the recorded program associated with the first difference was played in real time. - View Dependent Claims (71, 72, 73, 74)
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75. An apparatus to detect portions of a recorded program that were not played in real time comprising:
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an interval detector to compute a recording interval between a first recording time and a second recording time; and a difference detector to compare a playback interval and the recording interval to determine if the recording interval is indicative of real time playback of a corresponding portion of the recorded program. - View Dependent Claims (76, 77, 78)
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79. An apparatus to identify a portion of a recorded program that was not played in real time comprising:
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at least one processor; a memory coupled to the at least one processor and storing machine readable instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to; compute a first difference between a first recording time and a second recording time; and compare the first difference to a second difference between a first playback time and a second playback time to determine if a portion of the recorded program associated with the first difference was played in real time.
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