Patent ID: 8645984

Claim:
System for determining the authenticity of a channel received in a smart TV format via an Internet port of a smart TV, which comprises: a) a first streamer for receiving via said Internet port a channel A as transmitted in a smart TV format, and forwarding a respective video stream of this smart TV format transmission to a synchronizer; b) a second streamer for receiving via a traditional port a broadcast of a same channel A as transmitted by a provider in a traditional TV transmission format, and forwarding a respective video stream of this channel to said synchronizer; c) said synchronizer for receiving said smart TV format video stream and said traditional TV format video stream, synchronizing between the two streams, and outputting the two synchronized smart TV format and traditional TV format streams respectively to a correlator; and d) said correlator for receiving said two synchronized streams, correlating between corresponding frames of the stream, and when a similarity above a predefined threshold is determined, declaring channel A as received via the Internet port as authentic; otherwise, if a similarity below a predefined threshold is determined, declaring by the correlator that channel A as received via the Internet port as non-authentic.