SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR SCANNING BROADCASTS

• US 20140380393A1
• Filed: 09/09/2014
• Published: 12/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: StratosAudio, Inc.
• Original Assignee: StratosAudio, Inc.
• Inventors: Christensen, Kelly M., Hansen, John Phillip, Mock, Thomas Daniel
• Granted Patent: US 9,294,806 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/115
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8023 the game being played by multiple players at a common site, e.g. in an arena, theatre, shopping mall using a large public display
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/10 Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Measuring tape travel
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/14 for monitoring programmes
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/22 Arrangements for broadcast of identical information via plural broadcast systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/24 Arrangements for distribution of identical information via broadcast system and non-broadcast system
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 2201/40 characterised in that additional data relating to the broadcast data are available via a different channel than the broadcast channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/37 for identifying segments of broadcast information, e.g. scenes or extracting programme ID
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/64 for providing detail information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/26603 for automatically generating descriptors from content, e.g. when it is not made available by its provider, using content analysis techniques
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2665 Gathering content from different sources, e.g. Internet and satellite
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/278 Content descriptor database or directory service for end-user access details of content or meta data based information retrieval of video data in video databases G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/433 Content storage operation, e.g. storage operation in response to a pause request, caching operations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4343 Extraction or processing of packetized elementary streams [PES]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4345 Extraction or processing of SI, e.g. extracting service information from an MPEG stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8113 comprising music, e.g. song in MP3 format
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8456 by decomposing the content in the time domain, e.g. in time segments
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/16 Analogue secrecy systems; Analogue subscription systems

Abstract

The various embodiments disclosed herein provide methods, systems, and devices for capturing broadcast streams, analyzing the broadcast streams to obtain information about the media content transmitted in the broadcast streams, obtaining additional information about the media content if available, and assigning a unique event identifier specific to the instance of broadcast of the broadcast stream and/or media segment transmitted in the broadcast stream. In other embodiments, the unique event identifier is broadcasted to broadcast receiving devices. With the unique event identifier, broadcast receiving devices can access the obtained information associated with the media content.

Claims

1. (canceled)

2. A method for uniquely identifying a media segment through broadcast scanning, the method comprising:

acquiring, using a stream scanner module, third party encoded data associated with an electronic transmission of a media segment, the associated third party encoded data obtained from a data stream corollary to receipt of the electronic transmission of the media segment;

extracting the associated third party encoded data obtained from the data stream corollary to the receipt of the transmission of the media segment;

analyzing, using a stream analysis module of a computer system comprising a computer processor and an electronic storage medium, the associated third party encoded data to initiate identification of the media segment;

generating data that enables a unique identification of a specific instance of acquisition of the associated third party encoded data;

storing in a database the data that enables the unique identification of the specific instance of acquisition of the associated third party encoded data and at least part of the analyses of the associated third party encoded data, to initiate identification of the media segment;

transmitting the data that enables unique identification of the specific instance of acquisition of the associated third party encoded data to a plurality of user devices accessing the media segment; and

obtaining from at least one of the plurality of user devices an interaction with the media segment and at least the data that enables unique identification of the specific instance of acquisition of the associated third party encoded data.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the acquiring of the third party encoded data associated with the electronic transmission of the media segment occurs using a public broadcast.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the data that enables unique identification of the specific instance of acquisition of the associated third party encoded data is database indexed to data that enables the unique identification of a specific instance of transmission of the media segment.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein at least the data that enables unique identification of the specific instance of acquisition of the associated third party encoded data and at least part of the analyses are associated in the database.

6. A broadcast scanning method for uniquely identifying a media segment associated with an electronic transmission of the media segment through acquisition of third party encoded data, the method comprising:

obtaining, using a stream scanner module, a data stream associated with the electronic transmission of the media segment;

determining, using at least one processor, data that identifies a source of the data stream obtained through analysis of said data stream;

extracting at least third party encoded data obtained from the data stream;

analyzing, using a stream analysis module, the third party encoded data extracted from the data stream, whereby the analysis generates analysis data that includes at least an identifying data that initiates identification of the media segment;

correlating the data that identifies the source of the data stream, additional data associated with the transmission of the media segment and at least part of the analysis data;

generating a unique identification of a specific instance of extraction of the third party encoded data associated with the electronic transmission of the media segment;

identifying using at least one processor the media segment based on the correlation; and

storing in a database the data that identifies the source of the data stream, the unique identification of the specific instance of extraction of third party encoded data associated with the electronic transmission of the media segment and the identification of the media segment based at least in part on the correlation.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the obtaining of the data stream associated with the electronic transmission of the media segment is done over a public broadcast.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the data stream is multiplexed with the electronic transmission of the media segment.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the data stream contains program associated data.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the data stream contains program service data.

11. The method of claim 6, wherein relevant metadata associated with the electronic transmission of the media segment is obtained and analyzed.

12. The method of claim 6, wherein the electronic transmission of the media segment associated with the data stream is obtained and analyzed.

13. The method of claim 6, wherein the data stream is independent of the electronic transmission of the media segment.

14. The method of claim 6, wherein the unique identification of the specific instance of the extraction of the third party encoded data associated with the electronic transmission of the media segment is database indexed to data that enables the unique identification of a specific instance of transmission of the media segment.

15. A broadcast scanning method for associating data that enables a unique identification of a specific instance of acquisition of encoded third party data with a reception of a specific instance of a media segment in an electronic transmission, the method comprising:

receiving, using a broadcast scanning module, the specific instance of the media segment in the electronic transmission;

determining, using at least one processor, data that identifies a source of the electronic transmission;

acquiring encoded third party data associated with the reception of the specific instance of the media segment in the electronic transmission;

generating data that enables the unique identification of the specific instance of acquisition of the encoded third party data;

accessing a database system to determine an identification of the media segment using at least the encoded third party data; and

storing the identification of the media segment determined at least in part using the encoded third party data, in association with the data that enables unique identification of the specific instance of acquisition of the encoded third party data and the data that identifies the source of the electronic transmission.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the encoded third party data comprises at least a content identifier.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the database system includes third party database entries stored in association with the extracted associated third party encoded data.