Patent ID: 11863834
Assignee: ROVI GUIDES, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. A system for dynamically generating content recommendations during playback of a content item, the system comprising:
memory; and
control circuitry configured to:
receive the content item by a local device;
play back the content item by the local device;
identify, during the playback of the content item, a media signature corresponding to a first portion of the content item;
determine whether the media signature matches any media signature of a plurality of stored media signatures in the memory or remotely; and
in response to determining that the media signature matches a stored media signature:
identify a timestamp of the content item associated with the stored media signature that corresponds to the media signature of the first portion of the played back content item; and
generate for display by the local device a progress bar comprising an identifier of the content item associated with the stored media signature, a progress indicator of the progress bar corresponding to the identified timestamp; and

receive a selection of the progress bar; and
in response to receiving the selection of the progress bar, generating for display by the local device the respective content item beginning at the timestamp corresponding to the progress indicator.