Patent ID: 9743135
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. An apparatus to detect portions of a recorded program that were not played back in real time, the apparatus comprising: a time stamper to record a plurality of recording times associated with a recorded program, respective ones of the recording times indicating times of day at which respective sections of the recorded program were recorded; memory to store the recorded program; a presentation time retriever to, when triggered: a detector to compare the first one of the recording times and the second one of the recording times to calculate a recording interval, and a non-real time content identifier to identify a portion of the recorded program that was not played back in real time based on a detected difference between the recording interval and a playback interval, at least one of the time stamper, the memory, the presentation time retriever, the detector, or the non-real time content identifier including hardware.