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摘要

A video service provider system may include one or more devices. The one or more device may receive thumbnails of programs that are currently airing on a group of television channels and match the received thumbnails with metadata. The metadata may include information relating to at least one of the television channels or the programs. The one or more devices may further provide, to a remote device, a set of thumbnails, of the captured thumbnails, and the metadata matching the set of thumbnails. The remote device may make the set of thumbnails and the metadata available to a user.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
obtaining, by an aggregation server device of a video service provider system, thumbnails representative of corresponding programs presented via a group of television channels associated with the video service provider system; matching, by the aggregation server device of the video service provider system, the thumbnails with metadata including information relating to the corresponding programs; sending, by the aggregation server device, a set of thumbnails and the matching metadata to a plurality of distribution server devices of the video service provider system at different rates based on a time of day; and providing, by the plurality of distribution server devices of the video service provider system and to a remote device, the set of the thumbnails and the matching metadata for display.