SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING MEDIA CONTENT

摘要

A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a process that identifies identified media content sources based on a consumption pattern. The identified media content sources include alternative media content items and second metadata associated with the items. A match is determined between first metadata associated with media content requested for presentation at a media device and the second metadata. Matched alternative media content items are identified based on the match, and media content previously consumed by the media device is determined. A tout message is constructed identifying alternative media content items that do not include the media content previously consumed by the media device. A selectable command is provided within in the tout message associated with the alternative media content items. Other embodiments are disclosed.

主权项

1. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions, which responsive to being executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
retrieving content metadata associated with media content during a presentation of the media content at a media device; identifying a plurality of alternative media content sources to contain alternative media content of interest based on a consumption pattern associated with the media device; comparing the content metadata to alternative content metadata obtained from the plurality of alternative media content sources; in response to the comparing indicating a match between the content metadata and matched alternative content metadata of the alternative content metadata, constructing a tout message associated with an alternative media content source of the plurality of alternative media content sources containing the matched alternative content metadata; providing the tout message to the media device, wherein the tout message does not include media content previously consumed by the media device; constructing a selectable command in the tout message associated with the source of media content; and providing, the selectable command to the media device for display during the presenting of the media content.