Systems and methods for identifying video segments for displaying contextually relevant content

摘要

A system and method for the identification of specific video segments in a video program, such as certain TV commercials, is presented. A means is described for an accelerated identification of the video segment of interest in conjunction with a means to communicate said information to a process in a remote television system such that the remote television system can anticipate the future start of said video segment of interest and display contextually related material in close proximity to the start of said video segment.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
maintaining at least one store of relations of clients and channels, including at least:
receiving one or more of at least some cue data, at least some pixel data, or at least one hash value related to at least one client;determining, at least partially based on the received one or more of at least some cue data, at least some pixel data, or at least one hash value, (is) at least one channel associated with the at least one client and (ii) at least one latency associated with at least one network feed and the determined at least one channel; andstoring at least one relation including at least the determined at least one channel, the determined at least one latency, and at least one identifier related to the at least one client; receiving at least one indication of at least one targeted video segment on at least one monitored channel; determining one or more clients associated with the at least one monitored channel at least partially based on one or more stored relations of clients and channels; and preparing one or more client triggers related to the at least one targeted video segment, the prepared one or more client triggers including at least (a) one or more time offsets related to latencies associated with the determined one or more clients and (b) one or more instructions associated with providing contextually-related content at one or more times related to the one or more time offsets.