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System and method for in-band delivery of advertising decision data

  • US 9,277,263 B2
  • Filed: 03/15/2010
  • Issued: 03/01/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for inserting advertising description data into an audio/visual data stream, the system comprising:

  • a first server processor in data communication with a first computer program comprising instructions embedded in a tangible non-transitory computer readable medium, wherein the computer program comprises;

    instructions to insert advertising trigger signal data into the audio/visual data stream at a super head office indicating an advertising avail for insertion of advertising data;

    instructions to receive at a first server processor a heads up message from a super head office server;

    instructions to determine at the first server processor, based on the heads up message, a pre-roll time for a channel in the data stream for each of a plurality of advertising slots in the advertising avail;

    instructions to determine a time needed to prepare for splicing advertising data into the data stream for each of the plurality of slots in the advertising avail;

    instructions to determine a difference time between the pre-roll time for the advertising avail and the time needed to prepare for splicing for each slot in the advertising avail;

    instructions to reduce a bandwidth burst for inserting the advertising data into the plurality of slots in the advertising avail by spreading each of a plurality of splicing insertion times for the each of the plurality of slots over the difference time for each slot in the advertising avail;

    instructions to send the audio/visual data stream with trigger signal data to an end user client device;

    anda second processor at a VHO, wherein the second processor is configured to receive the audio visual data stream and trigger signal data from the first processor, generate a per-VHO multicast data stream and inject advertising description data into the per-VHO multicast stream upon detection of the advertising trigger data in the audio/visual data stream and send the per-VHO multicast data stream from the VHO to the end user client device, wherein the advertising description data is inserted separately for each slot in the advertising avail at the beginning of each slot in each advertising avail in the audio visual advertising stream.

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