Patent ID: 9602891
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04N

Claim:
1. A method for acquiring information related to a primary content, comprising: accessing a primary content at a receiver device; extracting one or more watermark messages that are embedded in the primary content to obtain a server code and an interval code, the one or more watermark messages extracted using a watermark detector that it implemented at least partially in electronic circuits; initiating a query to a metadata server based on information extracted from the one or more watermark messages; receiving service recovery information at the receiver device, the service recovery information comprising information that identifies one or more timed events, each timed event identifying an operation to be performed at a corresponding instant in time as the primary content is being presented by the receiver device; and initiating one or more operations identified by the one or more timed events at the corresponding instant(s) in time.