System and method for displaying contextual advertisements with media
First Claim
1. A method, comprising:
- transmitting at least a portion of a media object to a user computing device to be displayed on a display of the user computing device;
determining whether to transmit an advertisement to the user computing device based, at least in part, on a user subscription status for a media service, the advertisement to be selected based at least in part on a comparison between descriptive information related to the advertisement and contextual information related to the media object; and
transmitting the advertisement to the user computing device to be displayed on the display of the user device at least in part in response to a determination that the user is not a subscriber to the media service, the advertisement to be displayed at least in part concurrently with the at least the portion of the media object.
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Abstract
Systems and methods have been developed for displaying contextually relevant advertisements to users as media objects are being rendered. One or more data sources with contextual information for different portions of each media object are maintained. From this contextual information, keywords may be generated and used to locate contextually-related advertisements. The advertisements are selected based on contextual information about the media object in order to match or otherwise be contextually relevant with the media content being rendered. As the subject matter of the media object changes during rendering, different advertisements related to the new context are provided that replace the prior advertisement. The advertisements are displayed in an area that could be used for other purposes when the rendering device is not rendering media objects.
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21 Claims
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1. A method, comprising:
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transmitting at least a portion of a media object to a user computing device to be displayed on a display of the user computing device; determining whether to transmit an advertisement to the user computing device based, at least in part, on a user subscription status for a media service, the advertisement to be selected based at least in part on a comparison between descriptive information related to the advertisement and contextual information related to the media object; and transmitting the advertisement to the user computing device to be displayed on the display of the user device at least in part in response to a determination that the user is not a subscriber to the media service, the advertisement to be displayed at least in part concurrently with the at least the portion of the media object. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. An apparatus, comprising:
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a network interface module to transmit at least a portion of a media object to a user computing device to be displayed on a display of the user computing device; a processor to determine whether to transmit an advertisement to the user computing device based, at least in part, on a user subscription status for a media service, the advertisement to be selected based at least in part on a comparison between descriptive information related to the advertisement and contextual information related to the media object, the processor further to initiate transmission of the advertisement to the user computing device to be displayed on the display of the user device at least in part in response to a determination that the user is not a subscriber to the media service, the advertisement to be displayed at least in part concurrently with the at least the portion of the media object. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. An article, comprising:
- a storage medium having stored thereon instructions executable by a processor of a computing device to;
initiate transmission of at least a portion of a media object to a user computing device to be displayed on a display of the user computing device; determine whether to transmit an advertisement to the user computing device based, at least in part, on a user subscription status for a media service; select the advertisement based at least in part on a comparison between descriptive information related to the advertisement and contextual information related to the media object; and initiate transmission of the advertisement to the user computing device to be displayed on the display of the user device at least in part in response to a determination that the user is not a subscriber to the media service, the advertisement to be displayed at least in part concurrently with the at least the portion of the media object. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
- a storage medium having stored thereon instructions executable by a processor of a computing device to;
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