Automatic deal or promotion offering based on audio cues

• US 9,027,048 B2
• Filed: 11/14/2012
• Issued: 05/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bank of America Corp.
• Original Assignee: Bank of America Corp.
• Inventors: Jones, Alicia C., Burgess, James E., Perkins, Matthew, Jones, Sean M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Goodarzi, Nasser
• Assistant Examiner(s): PIERORAZIO, MICHAEL
• Application Number:
  US13/676,983
• Publication Number:
  US 20140137139A1
• Time in Patent Office: 902 Days
• Field of Search: 725/5, 725/9, 725/18, 725/19, 725/46
• US Class Current: 725/19
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4394 involving operations for analysing the audio stream, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in audio streams arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of audio in broadcast systems H04H60/58
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/458 Scheduling content for creating a personalised stream, e.g. by combining a locally stored advertisement with an incoming stream; Updating operations, e.g. for OS modules ; time-related management operations arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast or during the distribution H04H20/10

Abstract

Aspects herein describe at least a new method, system, and computer readable storage media for recognizing the content of the audio. A computing device determines whether the content comprises a product and/or service, correlates the product and/or service with one or more promotional deals provided by an organization such as a financial institution, generates a subset of the one or more promotional deals based on the correlation, and transmits the subset to a multimedia viewing device such as a television. The subset of the one or more promotional deals may be viewed by a viewer. The one or more promotional deals are displayed on a portion of the screen of the television for viewing by the viewer. The viewer may make a purchase decision based on the one or more promotional deals displayed.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one memory for storing computer executable instructions, wherein execution of said computer executable instructions by said at least one processor causes said computing device to perform a method comprising;

receiving audio including speech content corresponding to a multimedia program, said audio generated by a multimedia viewing device;

processing said audio to determine the speech content of said audio;

correlating said speech content determined from the audio with a product or service offering;

correlating the product or service offering with a database comprising a plurality of promotional deals;

generating a nonempty proper subset of said plurality of promotional deals based on said correlating of the product or service offering with the database comprising the plurality of promotional deals, the nonempty proper subset including two or more promotional deals; and

transmitting said subset to said multimedia viewing device from which the audio was generated, wherein said subset is displayed on a subscreen of said multimedia viewing device.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein said processing includes comparing audio characteristics of said speech content to a database of characteristics found in a reference library.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein said processing includes filtering watermark data embedded in said audio to determine a type of audio content being transmitted by said multimedia viewing device.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein at least one of said plurality of promotional deals provides a discounted price.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein at least one of said plurality of promotional deals provides a monetary credit to a credit card account of a purchaser when a purchase of a product or service associated with said subset is made by said purchaser using a credit card associated with a bank.

6. The system of claim 5 wherein said purchase generates credit card transaction fee revenue.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein execution of said computer executable instructions by said at least one processor further causes said computing device to perform:

determining whether said speech content comprises at least one of;

one or more products and one or more services, wherein the frequency of occurrence of each of said at least one of;

said one or more products and said one or more services in said speech content of said audio determines one or more suitable vendors to source said at least one of;

said one or more products and said one or more services.

8. A method comprising:

receiving audio including speech content corresponding to a multimedia program, said audio generated by a multimedia viewing device;

processing said audio to determine the speech content of said audio;

correlating said speech content determined from the audio with a product or service offering;

correlating the product or service offering with a database comprising a plurality of promotional deals;

generating a nonempty proper subset of said plurality of promotional deals based on said correlating of the product or service offering with the database comprising the plurality of promotional deals, the nonempty proper subset including two or more promotional deals;

transmitting said subset to said multimedia viewing device from which the audio was generated, wherein said subset is displayed on a subscreen of said multimedia viewing device, wherein said receiving, processing, correlating, generating, and transmitting is performed by a server located in a bank.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein said processing includes comparing audio characteristics of said speech content to a database of characteristics found in a reference library.

10. The method of claim 8 wherein said processing includes filtering watermark data embedded in said audio to determine a type of audio content being transmitted by said multimedia viewing device.

11. The method of claim 8 wherein at least one of said plurality of promotional deals provides a discounted price.

12. The method of claim 8 wherein at least one of said plurality of promotional deals provides a monetary credit to a credit card account of a purchaser when a purchase of a product or service associated with said subset is made by said purchaser using a credit card associated with a bank.

13. The method of claim 12 wherein said purchase generates credit card transaction fee revenue.

14. The method of claim 8 further comprising:

determining whether said speech content comprises at least one of;

one or more products and one or more services, wherein the frequency of occurrence of each of said at least one of;

said one or more products and said one or more services in said speech content of said audio determines one or more suitable vendors to source said at least one of;

said one or more products and said one or more services.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage media having stored thereon, a computer program having at least one code section for processing data, said at least one code section being executable by a processor of a computing device for causing said computing device to perform steps comprising:

receiving audio including speech content corresponding to a multimedia program, said audio generated by a multimedia viewing device;

processing said audio to determine the speech content of said audio;

correlating said speech content determined from the audio with a product or service offering;

correlating the product or service offering with a database comprising a plurality of promotional deals;

generating a nonempty proper subset of said plurality of promotional deals based on said correlating of the product or service offering with the database comprising the plurality of promotional deals, the nonempty proper subset including two or more promotional deals; and

transmitting said subset to said multimedia viewing device from which the audio was generated.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 15, wherein said processing includes comparing audio characteristics of said speech content to a database of characteristics found in a reference library.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 15 wherein said processing includes filtering watermark data embedded in said audio to determine a type of audio content being transmitted by said multimedia viewing device.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 15 wherein at least one of said plurality of promotional deals provides a monetary credit to a credit card account of a purchaser when a purchase of a product or service associated with said subset is made by said purchaser using a credit card associated with a bank.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 18 wherein said purchase generates credit card transaction fee revenue.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 15 wherein said at least one code section further causes said computing device to perform at least:

determining whether said speech content comprises at least one of;

one or more products and one or more services, wherein the frequency of occurrence of each of said at least one of;

said one or more products and said one or more services in said speech content of said audio determines one or more suitable vendors to source said at least one of;

said one or more products and said one or more services.