Patent ID: 9602852
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A method of metering media streams, comprising: receiving, at a gateway device coupling a connected media device to a media delivery system, a request for a media webpage from the connected media device; transmitting, by the gateway device, the request to the media delivery system; receiving, by the gateway device, the media webpage from the media delivery system; extracting, by the gateway device, identification data from the media webpage; storing, by the gateway device, the identification data as current page data; transmitting, by the gateway device, the media webpage to the connected media device; transmitting, by the gateway device, the current page data to an analytics server; receiving, at the analytics server, the current page data; determining, by the analytics server, that the current page data does not match an entry in a reference library; and creating, by the analytics server responsive to the determination that the current page data does not match an entry in the reference library, a recipe for future extraction of identification data from a same or similar media webpage based on the current data.