Patent ID: 9703932
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by an identification computing device and from a client computing device, a request for a content identification operation to identify content being received by the client computing device, the request comprising a fingerprint generated from the content to be identified; searching, by the identification computing device, a fingerprint database for a reference fingerprint matching the received fingerprint to identify the content being received by the client computing device; where a matching reference fingerprint is found, transmitting, by the identification computing device and to the client computing device, a response to the request, the response comprising information identifying a verification computing device to which the client computing device is assigned based on at least a portion of the fingerprint received with the request, the verification computing device is one of a plurality of verification computing devices and is other than the identification computing device, the verification computing device is to be used to perform a content verification operation, subsequent to the content identification operation performed by the identification computing device and in response to receipt by the verification computing device of a second fingerprint from the client computing device that generates the second fingerprint, to determine whether or not the client computing device continues to receive the content identified by the identification computing device in the content identification operation.