Patent ID: 9277253
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a server, metadata associated with an advertisement in a transport signal stream from an encoder, the metadata identifying a specified frame of the transport signal stream corresponding to a point in time of the advertisement; responsive to determining, by the server, that the transport signal stream is operating at a first frame rate, responsive to determining, by the server, that the transport signal stream is operating at a second frame rate differing from the first frame rate, receiving, by the server, data from a smart appliance; detecting, by the server, one of the first marker and the second marker in the data; identifying, by the server, one of the first marker and the second marker as the specified frame of the transport signal stream played by the smart appliance; and mapping, by the server, one of the first marker and the second marker to the identified point in time of the advertisement.