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Crowd sourced indexing and/or searching of content

US12206926B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJul 11, 2023
Grant dateJan 21, 2025
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Expiry dateJul 11, 2043

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N21/8453
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for a crowd sourced indexing and/or searching of content. An embodiment operates by receiving one or more requests for content from one or more media devices, each request comprising content identifier information that identifies the content, determining whether crowd sourced content index information has been generated for the content, transmitting a response to the one or more media devices of the one or more media devices, in response to the one or more requests, the response comprising content location information and a content indexing request, and receiving content index information for the content identified by the content identifier information from the one or more media devices.

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