System and method for locating and capturing desired media content from media broadcasts

摘要

A media agent that monitors multiple broadcast transmissions and a method for the same. The media agent establishes connections with broadcast transmissions and then identifies characteristics of the media content contained within the broadcast transmission. The association between the identified characteristic of the media content and the connected broadcast transmission is maintained to allow the information gathered from the broadcast transmission to be used meaningfully.

主权项

1. 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; andconcatenating, by said second computing apparatus, said first recorded portion of said transmission media content with a second recorded portion of said transmission media content.