Insertion of tags in a multimedia content stream to a location defined by a sequence of hash values of the content

摘要

A method for processing in-band data comprises receiving a multimedia content stream at a first multimedia device, wherein the multimedia content stream contains in-band data, processing the in-band data by the multimedia device, wherein processing the in-band data comprises computing a hash value sequence associated with a location in the multimedia content stream, determining that the hash value sequence matches a particular pattern associated with one or more events, and inserting one or more in-band tags at the location in the multimedia content stream. The invention also comprises a computer readable storage medium and an apparatus.