US 11,863,817 B2
Use of steganographically-encoded time information as basis to control implementation of dynamic content modification
Benjamin J. Ropke, Rochelle, NY (US); Shashank C. Merchant, Sunnyvale, CA (US); and John S. Stavropoulos, Edison, NJ (US)
Assigned to The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US)
Filed by The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US)
Filed on Jan. 25, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/159,628.
Application 18/159,628 is a continuation of application No. 17/643,944, filed on Dec. 13, 2021, granted, now 11,589,109.
Application 17/643,944 is a continuation of application No. 16/836,449, filed on Mar. 31, 2020, granted, now 11,234,049, issued on Jan. 25, 2022.
Application 16/836,449 is a continuation in part of application No. 15/929,220, filed on Feb. 6, 2020, granted, now 11,051,057, issued on Jun. 29, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/882,247, filed on Aug. 2, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/865,607, filed on Jun. 24, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0171463 A1, Jun. 1, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04N 21/44 (2011.01); H04N 21/2389 (2011.01); H04N 21/24 (2011.01); H04N 21/8547 (2011.01); G06T 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01)
CPC H04N 21/44016 (2013.01) [G06T 1/0085 (2013.01); H04N 21/23892 (2013.01); H04N 21/2402 (2013.01); H04N 21/812 (2013.01); H04N 21/8547 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computing system comprising:
a network communication interface;
a processing unit;
non-transitory data storage; and
program instructions stored in the non-transitory data storage and executable by the processing unit to carry out operations including:
using at least one steganographically-encoded timestamp in a media stream transmitted to a media client as a basis to determine a transmission delay for media-stream transmission to the media client, and
providing the determined transmission delay as a basis to facilitate control over whether to have the media client implement dynamic content modification.