Patent ID: 8990853
Filing Date: 2015-03-24
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: an automation system accessing a stored television-broadcasting traffic log, wherein the traffic log includes multiple ordered log entries; the automation system making a first determination that a log-entry A in the traffic log does not correspond to a live-production source; the automation system making a second determination that a log-entry B in the traffic log is the next log entry after the log-entry A to correspond to a live-production source; the automation system making a third determination that the log-entry B includes a start-time B; responsive to making the first, second, and third determinations, proximate a current time that is on or after a start-time A corresponding to the log-entry A and that is before the start-time B, the automation system determining a time period as a difference between the current time and the start-time B; and the automation system providing the determined time-period to an output device for presentation proximate the current time.