Advertisement analysis and error correlation

摘要

A method includes receiving, from an advertisement monitor device, notification of a video stream that includes an advertisement insertion event. The advertisement insertion event includes a scheduled transition between the video program and at least one targeted advertisement associated with a corresponding target group of set top boxes. The method includes preparing resources to receive the video stream. A notification is sent to the advertisement monitor device to begin transmitting the video stream. The video stream, a unique identifier (ID) associated with the video stream and associated metadata for the video stream is received. The method includes analyzing the video stream to identify at least one issue in association with the advertisement insertion event, and generating a report that includes the identified at least one error, the unique ID, and the associated metadata for the video stream.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving, from an advertisement monitoring device, notification of a video stream that includes at least one advertisement insertion event, wherein each advertisement insertion event includes a scheduled transition between a video program and at least one targeted advertisement associated with a corresponding target group of set top boxes and the advertisement monitoring device is to monitor the video stream for each advertisement insertion event; preparing resources to receive and record the video stream, wherein the resources are different than the corresponding target group of set top boxes; sending notification to the advertisement monitoring device to begin transmitting the video stream; recording, at the resources, the video stream; storing the recorded video stream with a unique identifier (ID) for the recorded video stream and associated metadata for the recorded video stream; analyzing the recorded video stream to identify at least one error in association with a particular advertisement insertion event; correlating the at least one error with at least one recorded advertisement insertion event; and generating a report that includes the identified at least one error, the unique ID, and the associated metadata for the recorded video stream.