Patent ID: 9736504
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A method for use in connection with a television-broadcasting system configured to perform functions related to television broadcasting, wherein the television-broadcasting system comprising an automation system and a traffic system, the method comprising: accessing, by the automation system, a stored television-broadcasting traffic log created by the traffic system, wherein the traffic log includes multiple ordered log entries; making, by the automation system, a determination that a log-entry B in the traffic log is a next log entry after a log-entry A to correspond to a particular type of video source; after making the determination, proximate a current time that is on or after a start-time A corresponding to the log-entry A and that is before a start-time B corresponding to the log-entry B, determining, by the automation system, a time period as a difference between a current time and the start-time B; and outputting, by the automation system, an indication of the determined time-period.