Patent ID: 11924480
Assignee: ROKU, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, having stored thereon program instructions that, upon execution by a processor, cause performance of a set of operations comprising:
identifying an upcoming content-replacement opportunity within a linear sequence of content segments transmitted on a channel, wherein the upcoming content-replacement opportunity comprises an opportunity to output a replacement content segment in place of a modifiable content segment that is part of the linear sequence of content segments;
responsive to identifying the upcoming content-replacement opportunity on the channel, identifying a group of multiple content-presentation devices tuned to the channel, wherein a content-presentation device is identified to be in the identified group based on a match detected between reference fingerprint data representing content being transmitted on the channel by a content distribution system to the content-presentation device and query fingerprint data received from the content-presentation device, wherein the reference fingerprint data is generated by the content distribution system for the content on an identified channel that is transmitted to the content-presentation device, the reference fingerprint data is transmitted with a first metadata from the content distribution system to the server computing system and the query fingerprint data is generated by the content-presentation device on an unidentified channel after receiving the content from the content distribution system, and the query fingerprint data is transmitted with a second metadata different from the first metadata from the content-presentation device to the server computing system;
using, at least in part, an amount of content-presentation devices in the identified group as a basis to determine an amount of system resources to request for use in performing actions that facilitate at least a portion of the content-presentation devices in the identified group performing respective content-replacement operations; and
requesting the determined amount of system resources for use in performing the actions that facilitate at least a portion of the content-presentation devices in the identified group performing respective content-replacement operations.