ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,698, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to INSCAPE DATA INC. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Detection of common media segments" was invented by Zeev Neumeier (Berkeley, Calif.) and Michael Collette (San Rafael, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are systems, methods, and computer-program products for identifying a media content stream when the media content stream is playing an unscheduled media segment. A computing device may receive a plurality of media content streams, where at least two of the plurality of media content streams concurrently includes a same unscheduled media segment. The computing device may determine that the medi...