System and method for optimizing media play transactions

• US 20050278736A1
• Filed: 05/31/2005
• Published: 12/15/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Steelberg, Ryan, Steelberg, Chad
• Granted Patent: US 8,495,089 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0245 Surveys
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0267 Wireless devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/12 Arrangements for observation, testing or troubleshooting
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/06 Arrangements for scheduling broadcast services or broadcast-related services
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/252 Processing of multiple end-users' preferences to derive collaborative data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2547 Third Party Billing, e.g. billing of advertiser
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/26208 the scheduling operation being performed under constraints
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

A database interface for developing at least one media play is disclosed. The database interface for developing at least one media play includes a plurality of templates, generated in accordance with feedback prior ones of the at least one media plays, at least two desired criteria limiting circumstances for play of the media play received at one of said templates, and an accessor that accesses media play inventory and preempts certain of the media play inventory with an insertion of the media play according to said at least two desired criteria.

Claims

1. A database interface for developing at least one media play, comprising:

a plurality of templates, generated in accordance with feedback prior ones of the at least one media plays;

at least two desired criteria limiting circumstances for play of the media play received at one of said templates; and

an accessor that accesses media play inventory and preempts certain of the media play inventory with an insertion of the media play according to said at least two desired criteria.

2. The interface of claim 1, wherein the at least two desired criteria limiting circumstances comprise at least one selected from the group consisting of environmental conditions, searched-for terms, prior media plays, and subsequently scheduled media plays.

3. The interface of claim 1, wherein each of said templates is selectable in accordance with at least one desired result of the media play.

4. The interface of claim 1, wherein the media play inventory comprises a radio station play list.

5. The interface of claim 1, wherein the media play comprises advertising.

6. A database interface for searching audio media plays that have been publicly broadcast, comprising:

accessing the audio media plays;

providing for an association of each of the audio media plays with a plurality of header information contexting each of the audio media plays, wherein the plurality of header information includes at least two key descriptors that generate the contexting, and wherein at least one of the at least two key descriptors is a term used in the audio media play;

allowing a searching, via the database interface, through the associations by entry of at least one of the key descriptors to locate the audio media play of interest that is the audio media play that was publicly broadcast.

7. The interface of claim 6, further comprising converting the audio media play to a text file.

8. The interface of claim 7, wherein the conversion is automated.

9. The interface of claim 7, further comprising locating the text file responsively to entry of the at least two key descriptors and any portion of the text file to the searching.

10. The interface of claim 6, wherein the audio media play that was publicly broadcast is the recording located and returned as responsive to the searching.

11. The interface of claim 6, wherein the audio media play that was publicly broadcast is the recording located, and wherein a pre-play version of the audio media play that was publicly broadcast is returned as responsive to the searching.

12. The interface of claim 6, wherein the associations comprise a relational database.