SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR SCANNING BROADCASTS

• US 20170257657A1
• Filed: 01/11/2017
• Published: 09/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: StratosAudio, Inc.
• Original Assignee: StratosAudio, Inc.
• Inventors: Christensen, Kelly M., Hansen, John Phillip, Mock, Thomas Daniel
• Granted Patent: US 10,469,888 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8023 the game being played by multiple players at a common site, e.g. in an arena, theatre, shopping mall using a large public display
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/10 Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Measuring tape travel
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/14 for monitoring programmes
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/22 Arrangements for broadcast of identical information via plural broadcast systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/24 Arrangements for distribution of identical information via broadcast system and non-broadcast system
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 2201/40 characterised in that additional data relating to the broadcast data are available via a different channel than the broadcast channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/37 for identifying segments of broadcast information, e.g. scenes or extracting programme ID
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/64 for providing detail information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/26603 for automatically generating descriptors from content, e.g. when it is not made available by its provider, using content analysis techniques
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2665 Gathering content from different sources, e.g. Internet and satellite
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/278 Content descriptor database or directory service for end-user access details of content or meta data based information retrieval of video data in video databases G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/433 Content storage operation, e.g. storage operation in response to a pause request, caching operations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4343 Extraction or processing of packetized elementary streams [PES]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4345 Extraction or processing of SI, e.g. extracting service information from an MPEG stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8113 comprising music, e.g. song in MP3 format
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8456 by decomposing the content in the time domain, e.g. in time segments
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/16 Analogue secrecy systems; Analogue subscription systems

Abstract

The various embodiments disclosed herein provide methods, systems, and devices for capturing broadcast streams, analyzing the broadcast streams to obtain information about the media content transmitted in the broadcast streams, obtaining additional information about the media content if available, and assigning a unique event identifier specific to the instance of broadcast of the broadcast stream and/or media segment transmitted in the broadcast stream. In other embodiments, the unique event identifier is broadcasted to broadcast receiving devices. With the unique event identifier, broadcast receiving devices can access the obtained information associated with the media content.

Claims

1. (canceled)

2. A system for determining response activity corollary to a presentation of a media content obtained from a broadcast source, the system comprising;

one or more computer readable storage devices configured to store a plurality of computer executable instructions comprising at least a stream scanner module; and

one or more hardware computer processors in communication with the one or more computer readable storage devices and configured to execute the plurality of computer executable instructions in order to cause the system to;

receive a media content communication from the broadcast source using the stream scanner module associated with a receiving device;

obtain a third party unique identifier specific to an instance of the media content communication;

retrieve at least one user identifier respondent to the presentation of the media content communication corollary to the third party unique event identifier, the at least one user identifier respondent to the presentation being unique to a user; and

store aggregated data of response activity associated with the at least one user identifier respondent to the presentation of the media content communication corollary to the third party unique event identifier.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the one or more computer readable storage devices configured to store a plurality of computer executable instructions comprising at least a stream scanner module includes at least one of the following:

the receiving device, a personal computer, a cellular phone, a computer system featuring GPS, a portable computing device, a server, a local area network of individual computers, an interactive kiosk, a personal digital assistant, cable and satellite boxes, broadcast receiving devices.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the third party unique identifier specific to the instance of the media content communication is obtained using at least one of the following:

peer to peer sharing, a pubic broadcast, a private communication, an IP based connection, a wireless connection, a wired connection, a third party.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein the third party unique identifier specific to the instance of the media content communication identifies at least one of the following:

the media content communication, a source of the third party unique identifier, time and date of a respondent broadcast segment, a third party unique identifier database.

6. The system of claim 2, wherein the at least one user identifier respondent to the presentation of the media content communication corollary to the third party unique event identifier identifies at least one of the following:

name, address, demographic data, telephone billing information, cellular account, age, gender, location, mobile operator favorite media streams, peer to peer sharing, preferred language, cultural affinities, political affinities, receiving device identification, response activity, assessed broadcast streams.

7. The system of claim 2, wherein the receipt of the media content communication from the broadcast source using the receiving device associated with the stream scanner module identifies the broadcast source.

8. The system of claim 2, wherein the aggregated data of response activity associated with the at least one user identifier respondent to the presentation of the media content communication corollary to the third party unique event identifier comprises at least one of the following:

user preferences, receiving device usage, most popular media content, most popular broadcast streams, recommended media content, recommended broadcast streams, peer to peer sharing, advertisement.

9. The system of claim 2, wherein the stream scanner module is configured to receive at least one of the following:

a specific broadcast stream from a broadcast source, a plurality of broadcast streams from a plurality of broadcast sources, an AM stream transmission, an FM stream transmission, an In-band-on-channel stream transmission, an Internet Protocol data stream transmission, a satellite stream transmission, a Digital Radio Mondiale stream transmission, a WiFi stream transmission, Analog Television stream transmission, a Digital Television stream transmission, a wireless stream transmission, a peer to peer stream transmission, a cable stream transmission, combination of the aforementioned.

10. The system of claim 2, wherein the aggregated data of response activity associated with the at least one user identifier respondent to the presentation of the media content communication corollary to the third party unique event identifier comprises at least one of the following:

storage in a database internal to the receiving device, storage in a database external to the receiving device, identification of a database entry in a storage database using the third party unique identifier, a storage database module configured to store in the storage database at least the third party unique event identifier and the database entry, wherein the third party unique event identifier is database linked to the database entry, the storage database indexes scanned broadcast streams with the third party unique event identifier and/or a database pointer.

11. The system of claim 2, wherein the aggregated data of response activity comprises at least one of the following:

geographic location of a receiving device respondent to the presentation of the media content, time of day, a status change of the receiving device, changing reception of the receiving device from one broadcast source to another, a vote about a media content event transmitted in a broadcast stream.

12. A method of reporting presentation activity corollary to an instance of media content associated with a broadcast stream associated with a broadcast source corollary to a third party unique event identifier specific to the instance of the media content, under control of a computing device configured with specific computer-executable instructions, the method comprising:

configuring a stream scanner module to receive communications from the broadcast source;

obtaining the third party unique event identifier specific to the instance of media content associated with the broadcast stream associated with the broadcast source;

retrieving a plurality of user identifiers obtained corollary to a presentation of the broadcast stream corollary to the third party unique event identifier specific to the instance of the media content, each of the plurality of user identifiers being unique to a user; and

presenting a report of presentation activity corollary to the media content associated with the broadcast stream using at least one user identifier and the third party unique event identifier specific to the instance of the media content.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the third party unique event identifier specific to the instance of the media content is obtained in relation to a transmission of the instance of the media content.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the instance of the media content is transmitted using at least one of the following:

peer to peer sharing, a pubic broadcast, a private communication, an Internet Protocol based connection, a wireless connection, a wired connection, a third party.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the instance of the media content is received via a third party source of the third party unique event identifier specific to the instance of the media content.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein the third party unique event identifier specific to the instance of the media content incorporates multiple components.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein at least one of the multiple components includes an internet address.

18. The method of claim 12, wherein the broadcast stream is transmitted using at least one of the following:

peer to peer sharing, a pubic broadcast, a private communication, an Internet Protocol based connection, a wireless connection, a wired connection, a third party.

19. The method of claim 12, wherein the broadcast source is an Internet Protocol based connection server.

20. The method of claim 12, wherein the third party unique event identifier specific to the instance of the media content is stored in a database.

21. The method of claim 12, further comprising receiving a response to the instance of the media content, the response comprising at least the third party unique event identifier specific to the instance of the media content and at least one of the plurality of user identifiers being unique to a user.