Patent ID: 8850590

Claim:
A method for identifying a communication network receiver, the method comprising: receiving at the communication network receiver, over a network, a transport stream, the transport stream comprising a first data stream and a second data stream, the first data stream including a sequence of frames having a first watermark, and the second data stream including the sequence of frames having a second watermark; identifying a location of the communication network receiver; generating an identifier for the communication network receiver by outputting, to a display or a recorder, a modified sequence of frames selected from the first data stream and the second data stream that is based on: the first watermark; the second watermark; and the location; and wherein generating the identifier comprises, before the outputting, generating the modified sequence of frames by selecting frames from the transport stream by splicing between a first packet identifier (“PID”) and a second PID, the first and second PIDs corresponding to the first and second data streams, respectively.