Patent ID: 9693117
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A method to automatically determine whether a media presentation is a linear media presentation or a non-linear media presentation, the method comprising: generating, by executing an instruction with a processor, a reference log including first media identifiers of first media and first times at which the first media was presented as a linear media presentation; generating, by executing an instruction with the processor, a media presentation log for the media presentation of second media, the media presentation log including second media identifiers of the second media and second times at which the second media was presented; comparing, by executing an instruction with the processor, the media presentation log to the reference log to determine a duration associated with matches between ones of the first media identifiers and ones of the second media identifiers, the matches between the ones of the first media identifiers and the ones of the second media identifiers being in a same order in the media presentation log and in the reference log, the duration based on at least one of the first times or the second times; and classifying, by executing an instruction with the processor, the media presentation of the second media as a linear media presentation when the duration satisfies a threshold.