Patent ID: 11924523
Assignee: CLEARPLAY, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for filtering streaming media content, the method comprising:
receiving, at a midstream filtering system in communication with and effected independently from a content source, one or more user settings comprising a criteria for filtering a portion of a streaming media content;
receiving, from a content source and at the midstream filtering system, one or more packets of a source data stream, the source data stream comprising one or more of an audio component and a video component of the streaming media content;
determining, at the midstream filtering system, a unique identity of the streaming media content by comparing at least a portion of one or more packets of the streaming media content to a previously identified portion of the streaming media content;
matching, at the midstream filtering system, the determined unique identity of the streaming media content to a filtering action, wherein the filtering action is based at least in part on the criteria of the one or more user settings;
executing, at the midstream filtering system and based on the unique identity of the streaming media content matching the filtering action, the filtering action on the portion of the one or more packets of the source data stream received from the content source; and
communicating to a media-playing system a filtered data stream generated at least in part by performing the filtering action on the one or more packets of the source data stream.