Providing content interruptions
First Claim
1. A system comprising:
- a receiver to receive content and at least one advertisement;
a cache, coupled to said receiver, to store said content and said at least one advertisement; and
an interface, in said receiver, to select at least one stored advertisement, said advertisement selection based on a content characteristic that is specified by an advertisement provider, said interface also to retrieve content from said cache to enable the display of the retrieved content in a regular viewing mode, to detect a user-initiated pause of the regular viewing mode, and in response to said detecting, to provide a user interface that enables the user to view said at least one selected advertisement for as long as the content remains paused.
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Abstract
Content which users may wish to receive may be distributed with interrupting content such that the use of the content on the user'"'"'s receiver may be interrupted and replaced with the interrupting content. The content which the user wishes to receive may be software, audio, video, graphics or other material and the interrupting content in one embodiment of the prevent invention may be advertisements. In this way, the user'"'"'s receiver may be utilized to determine when it is appropriate to interrupt the interruptible content with the interrupting content. This may provide a convenient mechanism for reduced price or free distribution of a wide variety of media currently provided only in physical form or only for free without any compensation to the content provider.
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43 Claims
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1. A system comprising:
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a receiver to receive content and at least one advertisement;
a cache, coupled to said receiver, to store said content and said at least one advertisement; and
an interface, in said receiver, to select at least one stored advertisement, said advertisement selection based on a content characteristic that is specified by an advertisement provider, said interface also to retrieve content from said cache to enable the display of the retrieved content in a regular viewing mode, to detect a user-initiated pause of the regular viewing mode, and in response to said detecting, to provide a user interface that enables the user to view said at least one selected advertisement for as long as the content remains paused. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A system comprising:
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a receiver to receive content and an advertisement;
a cache, coupled to said receiver, to store said content and said advertisement;
an interface, in said receiver, to receive an updated advertisement and updating instructions, said updating instructions to enable the receiver to replace the stored advertisement with the updated advertisement; and
said interface to detect a user-initiated pause in the viewing of content, to retrieve the updated advertisement from said storage, and to provide a user interface that enables the user to view the retrieved advertisement for as long as the viewing of the content remains paused. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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34. A system comprising:
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a cache, coupled to a receiver, to store content and advertisements received on said receiver;
an interface, in said receiver, to detect, during the play of content retrieved from said cache, the occurrence of an advantageous condition, to locate one or more advertisements in said cache, and to enable the display of a user interface in place of said content so long as said advantageous condition is detected, said user interface to include selectable indicia of the one or more located advertisements and an indicia of said content. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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