Patent ID: 8881216

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for monitoring a media transmission, comprising: obtaining a description of desired media content, said description comprising a characteristic of said desired media content; determining a media transmission to be monitored; connecting to said media transmission; and after obtaining said description and connecting to said media transmission: identifying a characteristic of transmission media content comprised within said connected media transmission through a statistical pattern recognition scheme, without the need for a unique identifier that is embedded in and/or transmitted with said transmission media content; simultaneously recording said transmission media content by a plurality of computing apparatuses; obtaining, by a first computing apparatus of said plurality, a request from a second computing apparatus of said plurality; obtaining, by said second computing apparatus, a first recorded portion of said transmission media content from said first computing apparatus; and concatenating, by said second computing apparatus, said first recorded portion of said transmission media content with a second recorded portion of said transmission media content.