Method for providing a broadcast with a discrete neighborhood focus

• US 20040111743A1
• Filed: 12/09/2002
• Published: 06/10/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/09/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Craig T. Moncreiff
• Original Assignee: Craig T. Moncreiff
• Inventors: Moncreiff, Craig T.
• Application Number:
  US10/315,602
• Publication Number:
  US 20040111743A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/35
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2221 being a cable television head-end CATV in broadcast systems H04H20/78
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2365 Multiplexing of several video streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/252 Processing of multiple end-users' preferences to derive collaborative data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25883 being end-user demographical data, e.g. age, family status or address arrangements for identifying locations of users in broadcast systems H04H60/52
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/26258 for generating a list of items to be played back in a given order, e.g. playlist, or scheduling item distribution according to such list retrieval of multimedia data based on playlists G06F16/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2665 Gathering content from different sources, e.g. Internet and satellite
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2668 Creating a channel for a dedicated end-user group, e.g. insertion of targeted commercials based on end-user profiles information retrieval from the Internet by querying with filtering and personalisation G06F16/9535; arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast H04H20/10; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; adaptation of message content in packet-switching networks H04L51/063
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/165 Centralised control of user terminal subsequent to an upstream request signal H04N7/17345; Registering at central by two-way working H04N7/17309

Abstract

A method of providing a broadcast for a designated geographic area includes the steps of obtaining information content for the broadcast from at least one media source, converting the information content into a broadcast format, identifying a selected market that is less than or equal to the source audience for the at least one media source and transmitting the information content to the selected market via a broadcast.

Claims

1. A method of providing a broadcast for a designated geographic area, comprising the steps of:

obtaining information content for the broadcast from at least one media source;

converting the information content into a broadcast format;

identifying a selected market that is less than or equal to the source audience for the at least one media source; and

transmitting the information content to the selected market via a broadcast.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

obtaining further information content from a second media source; and

integrating the information content obtained from the media sources.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the broadcast is a cable television broadcast.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the cable television broadcast is sent by a cable system to a targeted geographic area that is less than an overall geographic area covered by the cable system.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the targeted geographic area covers no more than 50,000 homes.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the broadcast is an Internet broadcast.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the broadcast is an “

over the air”

broadcast.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of converting the information content into a broadcast format includes the step of reformatting the media source information content.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one media source includes a newspaper.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the newspaper is distributed no more than once per week.

11. The method of claim 2, wherein the media sources are non-broadcast media sources.

21. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of converting the information into a broadcast format includes the steps of:

selecting broadcast stories from the at least one local media source;

writing or re-writing broadcast stories for a broadcast presentation;

creating a videotape of the broadcast stories;

creating a broadcast schedule of the broadcast stories; and

producing a broadcast including the broadcast stories.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the step of selecting broadcast stories from the at least one local media source includes the step of selecting broadcast stories from a broadcast studio or newsroom.

23. The method of claim 21, wherein the step of creating a videotape of the broadcast stories includes the step of videotaping news segments and inserting videotape segments from other broadcast studios or newsrooms.

24. The method of claim 21, wherein the step of creating a videotape of the broadcast stories includes the step of taping and inserting commercial videotape segments.

12. A method of providing a targeted television broadcast, comprising the steps of:

obtaining information content for the television broadcast from at least one non-television media source;

converting the information content into a television broadcast format;

identifying a selected market that is a subset of a television media broadcast market; and

transmitting the converted information content to the selected market via a television broadcast.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising the steps of:

obtaining further information content from a second non-television media source; and

integrating the information content obtained from the non-television media sources.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the television broadcast is a cable television broadcast.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the at least one non-television media source includes a newspaper.

16. A method of providing information to customers within a designated geographic area, comprising the steps of:

providing a physical home delivery of the information to the customers within the designated geographic area;

converting the information into a broadcast format; and

transmitting the information to the customers within the designated geographic area.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the designated geographic area covers no more than 50,000 homes.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the broadcast is a cable television broadcast.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein the broadcast is an Internet broadcast.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein the broadcast is an “

over the air”

broadcast.