Broadcast response method and system

• US 10,439,837 B2
• Filed: 09/19/2017
• Issued: 10/08/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/21/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: StratosAudio, Inc.
• Original Assignee: StratosAudio, Inc.
• Inventors: Christensen, Kelly M., Mock, Thomas Daniel, Kushner, Lewis A., Bowman, Richard L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chan, Sai Ming
• Application Number:
  US15/708,725
• Publication Number:
  US 20180097646A1
• Time in Patent Office: 749 Days
• Field of Search: 370312
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0723 the record carrier comprising an arrangement for non-contact communication, e.g. wireless communication circuits on transponder cards, non-contact smart cards or RFIDs
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/20 Point-of-sale [POS] network systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 2201/13 radio data system/radio broadcast data system [RDS/RBDS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/33 Arrangements for monitoring the users' behaviour or opinions
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/37 for identifying segments of broadcast information, e.g. scenes or extracting programme ID
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/40 for identifying broadcast time
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/76 Arrangements characterised by transmission systems other than for broadcast, e.g. the Internet for broadcast H04H20/65
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1868 Measures taken after transmission, e.g. acknowledgments
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/189 in combination with wireless systems selective distribution or broadcast in wireless communication networks H04W4/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/611 for multicast or broadcast systems for broadcast or conference H04L12/18; arrangements for broadcast or distribution combined with broadcast H04H20/00; arrangements for broadcast applications with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time H04H60/00; selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS], H04W4/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services

Abstract

A system and method for broadcast response generally employing RDS, DARC, or similar technology is provided, including a method for responding to a broadcast comprising extracting an event identifier from a broadcast signal; detecting a response by a user to the broadcast signal; polling a communications device to determine a user identifier; and communicating the event identifier and the user identifier when the user response is detected.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for generating rewards through tracking an electronic transfer associated with a second receiver, the method comprising:

associating, by a computer system, content information related to a broadcast media content with a first set of field types in a database;

associating, by the computer system, information from a broadcast data packet with a second set of field types in the database, whereby the first set of field types and the second set of field types have at least one field type in common;

receiving, by the computer system, from a first receiver a response data packet comprising at least a first field type and a second field type;

extracting, by the computer system, from the response data packet at least the first field type and the second field type;

tracking, by the computer system, an electronic transfer of at least the first field type and the second field type to the second receiver; and

storing, by the computer system, in the database a subset field type associated with at least one of the following;

an identification of the first receiver, an identification of the second receiver, the at least one field type in common, information of a reward corollary to the electronic transfer, the tracking of the electronic transfer, the first field type, the second field type,

wherein the computer system comprises at least one computer processor and at least one electronic memory.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting the broadcast media content and the broadcast data packet to the first receiver.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the association of the content information with the first set of field types is responsive to a request.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the content information includes at least one of the following:

a title corollary to the broadcast media content, a source corollary to the broadcast media content, a reward corollary to the broadcast media content, an identifier corollary to the broadcast media content, information related to an advertisement.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein a database entry associated with the first receiver includes information about at least one of the following:

a record of rewards, a user account, a credit card account information, a telephone number, an address, the subset field type.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein a database entry associated with the response data packet includes information about at least one of the following:

the identification of the first receiving device, a record of rewards, a user account, a credit card account information, a telephone number, an address, the subset field type, URL.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

data mining the database to generate a report corollary to at least one of the following;

the broadcast media content, the content information, the broadcast data packet, the response data packet, the electronic transfer, the first receiver, the second receiver, the reward.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting a response to the first receiver as a result of receiving the response data packet.