Patent ID: 9661384
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: G11B,H04N

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for reconstructing trick play user activity, comprising executing on a processor the steps of: analyzing playback information of a recorded program during a playback session to identify trick play actions occurring during the playback session, the playback information including a first sequence of separate video offset events, the separate video offset events being associated with different points of time during the playback session at spaced intervals; during said analyzing step, for each adjacent pair of video offset events separated by one of the spaced intervals, a change of video offset is compared relative to a change of time to determine a type of trick play action occurring between the adjacent pair of video offset events; reconstructing a sequence of trick play actions occurring during the playback session from the trick play actions identified by said analyzing step; and storing the reconstructed sequence of trick play actions along with at least a subset of playback information unable to be incorporated into trick play actions identified by said analyzing step.