Patent ID: 8745403

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving, at a content handling device, a streaming content subject to a content screening obligation; allowing access to the received streaming content for a duration of an initial access period spanning an initial portion of the received streaming content; allowing access to the received streaming content for a duration of a grace interval; selecting at least one segment of the streaming content during the grace interval; calculating one or more hash value(s) for the selected segment(s); requesting an existing watermark extraction record, the request comprising the calculated hash value(s), the existing watermark extraction record residing on a non-transitory storage medium, the existing watermark extraction record having been produced prior to receiving the content by, at-least in-part, extracting watermarks that are embedded in the content and storing watermark extraction results in the non-transitory storage medium, thereby allowing watermark extraction to be at least partially bypassed when the content is subsequently accessed; and upon a failure to receive the existing extraction record within the grace interval, allowing access to the received streaming content for an extended grace interval if the extended grace interval duration is within a grace interval extension limit.