Patent ID: 9609397
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: G11B,H04N

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for synchronizing supplemental content to a multimedia file, the method comprising: obtaining by a processor the multimedia file, wherein the multimedia file includes therein a soundtrack; obtaining by the processor the supplemental content, wherein the supplemental content includes therein at least one audio fingerprint and wherein the audio fingerprint included in the supplemental content is associated with a time start point; identifying by the processor, in the supplemental content, the audio fingerprint; identifying by the processor, in the supplemental content, the time start point associated with the identified audio fingerprint; determining by the processor whether, at a time period in the multimedia file beginning at a time corresponding to the identified time start point in the supplemental content, an audio fingerprint of the sound track of the multimedia file matches the identified audio fingerprint of the supplemental content; responsive to determining that at the time period in the multimedia file beginning at the time corresponding to the identified time start point in the supplemental content the audio fingerprint of the sound track of the multimedia file does not match the identified audio fingerprint of the supplemental content: responsive to determining that the sound track of the multimedia file contains an audio fingerprint that matches the identified audio fingerprint of the supplemental content: