Advertisement inserting method and system is applied the method
First Claim
1. An advertisement inserting method which is applied to a system in which a distributing side has at least a storing apparatus configured to store video contents and advertising contents and a transmitting apparatus, and a viewing side has at least a viewing apparatus configured to view the video contents in which the advertising contents are inserted, the method inserting the advertising contents into the video contents, wherein the video contents and the advertising contents are respectively and independently managed at the distributing side, and the advertising contents are selectively inserted into the video contents at the distributing side and the viewing side.
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Abstract
The present invention is applied to a system in which a distributing side has a video contents storing apparatus, an advertising contents storing apparatus, and a transmitting apparatus, and a viewing side has a set top box. When advertising contents are inserted into video contents, the video contents and the advertising contents are respectively and independently managed at a distributing side, and the advertising contents are selectively inserted into the video contents at the distributing side and the viewing side.
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12 Claims
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1. An advertisement inserting method which is applied to a system in which a distributing side has at least a storing apparatus configured to store video contents and advertising contents and a transmitting apparatus, and a viewing side has at least a viewing apparatus configured to view the video contents in which the advertising contents are inserted, the method inserting the advertising contents into the video contents,
wherein the video contents and the advertising contents are respectively and independently managed at the distributing side, and the advertising contents are selectively inserted into the video contents at the distributing side and the viewing side.
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7. A distributing system comprising:
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a transmitting apparatus comprising a classification managing unit configured to individually manage video contents and advertising contents and to classify and manage the advertising contents at least on the basis of characteristics which do not relate to characteristics of a viewing side and characteristics which relate to characteristics of the viewing side, a transmitting unit configured to transmit the advertising contents classified on the basis of the characteristics which relate to the characteristics of the viewing side to the viewing side so as to be inserted in the video contents at the viewing side, and to insert the advertising contents classified on the basis of the characteristics which do not relate to the characteristics of the viewing side into the video contents so as to transmit them to the viewing side, and a transmitting side holding unit configured to hold contents meta information showing an outline of the video contents; and
a receiving apparatus comprising a receiving side holding unit configured to hold the advertising contents classified on the basis of the characteristics which relate to the characteristics of the viewing side, and an interposing unit configured to make at least one of the advertising contents of the holding unit and advertising contents downloaded from the distributing side be interposed into the video contents with reference to the contents meta information.
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8. A transmitting apparatus comprising:
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a classifying managing unit configured to individually manage video contents and advertising contents, and to classify and manage the advertising contents at least on the basis of characteristics which do not relate to characteristics of a viewing side and characteristics which relate to characteristics of the viewing side; and
a transmitting unit configured to transmit the advertising contents classified on the basis of the characteristics which relate to the characteristics of the viewing side to the viewing side so as to be inserted in the video contents at the viewing side, and to insert the advertising contents classified on the basis of the characteristics which do not relate to the characteristics of the viewing side into the video contents so as to transmit them to the viewing side. - View Dependent Claims (9)
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10. A transmitting program stored in a computer readable medium configured to distribute video contents into which advertising contents are inserted to a viewing side, the transmitting program comprising:
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individually managing video contents and advertising contents, and classifying and managing the advertising contents at least on the basis of characteristics which do not relate to characteristics of the viewing side and characteristics which relate to the characteristics of the viewing side;
transmitting the advertising contents classified on the basis of the characteristics which relate to the characteristics of the viewing side to the viewing side so as to be inserted into the video contents at the viewing side;
inserting the advertising contents classified on the basis of the characteristics which do not relate to the characteristics of the viewing side into the video contents, and transmitting them it to the viewing side;
holding contents meta information showing an outline of the video contents; and
transmitting to the viewing side advertising contents insertion conditions corresponding to the video contents by referring to the contents meta information from the viewing side.
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11. A receiving apparatus receiving, from a distributing side, video contents into which advertising contents to be displayed on a display device are inserted, comprising:
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a holding unit configured to hold the advertising contents; and
an interposing unit configured to make at least one of the advertising contents of the holding unit and advertising contents downloaded from the distributing side be interposed into the video contents, with reference to contents meta information showing an outline of the video contents provided at the distributing side.
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12. A receiving program stored in a computer readable medium having a function of receiving, from a distributing side, video contents into which advertising contents to be displayed on a display device are inserted, the receiving program comprising:
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holding advertising contents; and
making at least one of the held advertising contents and advertising contents downloaded from the distributing side be interposed into the video contents, with reference to contents meta information showing an outline of the video contents provided at the distributing side.
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