Real time television advertisement shaping

• US 9,400,982 B2
• Filed: 09/29/2009
• Issued: 07/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Bassali, Harpal Singh, Stettner, Armando P., Archer, Donald Gene, Kukoyi, Dolapo, Ruffini, Michael P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lonsberry, Hunter B
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ryan, Patrick A
• Application Number:
  US12/568,875
• Publication Number:
  US 20110078723A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,492 Days
• Field of Search: 725/13, 725/19, 725 32- 61, 705/14.49, 705/14.53, 705/14.54, 705/14.55
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25891 being end-user preferences retrieval of video data in a video database based on user preferences G06F16/739; arrangements for recognizing users' preferences H04H60/46; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4331 Caching operations, e.g. of an advertisement for later insertion during playback
• 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 21/4828 for searching program descriptors retrieval of video data G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• 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

Abstract

A multimedia client receives, over a subscription multimedia network, television content for presentation to a viewer, where the television content includes an advertising break and identifies a keyword associated with the television content. The multimedia client sends, over the subscription multimedia network, the keyword to an advertisement server and receives from the advertisement server, an advertisement corresponding to the keyword. The multimedia client then provides, for display to the viewer, the advertisement within the advertising break.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a multimedia client, program content for presentation to a viewer;

identifying, by the multimedia client, a keyword combination based on proximity of words of play-by-play commentary of the program content,

the keyword combination describing an action that occurred during an event displayed during the program content;

sending, by the multimedia client, the keyword combination to a server;

receiving, by the multimedia client and based on sending the keyword combination to the server, an advertisement that is associated with a person who performed the action during the event; and

presenting, for display to the viewer and during replays of the action, the advertisement in an interactive overlay displayed over the program content.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing a list of keywords,

each keyword in the list of keywords being cross-referenced to at least one advertisement, and

the list of keywords including one or more of the words.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

receiving, by the multimedia client, a current events feed that includes changes to the list of keywords, and

updating the list of keywords based on the current events feed.

4. The method of claim 1, where receiving the advertisement that is associated with the person includes:

receiving, by the multimedia client and from the server, a pull instruction for the advertisement based on sending the keyword combination to the server;

sending, by the multimedia client and based on the pull instruction, a pull request to retrieve the advertisement from a different server, and

receiving, by the multimedia client and after sending the pull request, the advertisement.

5. The method of claim 1, where the advertisement is a linear advertisement.

6. The method of claim 1, where presenting the advertisement includes:

presenting, for display, the advertisement simultaneously with the program content.

21. The method of claim 1, where the program content includes a video component, an audio component, and one or more of metadata or captioning.

7. A system comprising:

one or more processors to;

receive television content for presentation to a viewer;

identify a keyword combination based on words identified by way of analysis of the television content,

the keyword combination describing an action that occurred during an event displayed during the television content;

send the keyword combination to a server;

receive, based on sending the keyword combination to the server, an advertisement that is associated with a person who performed the action during the event; and

provide, for display to the viewer and during a replay of the action, the advertisement as an interactive overlay displayed over the television content.

8. The system of claim 7, where the keyword combination includes at least one of an alpha-numeric sequence or a combination of two or more words.

9. The system of claim 7, where the one or more processors are further to store:

a list of keywords that are cross-referenced to at least one advertisement,

the list of keywords including one or more of the words.

10. The system of claim 7, where the television content is linear television content that includes a plurality of scheduled advertising breaks.

11. The system of claim 7, where the television content includes at least one of:

a dedicated presentation space into which the advertisement is inserted, or

a trigger for advertising.

12. The system of claim 7, where the one or more processors are further to:

receive, from a remote control, information identifying a selection of the interactive overlay.

13. A method comprising:

sending, by one or more devices and to a multimedia client, program content requested by the multimedia client;

receiving, by the one or more devices, a keyword combination associated with the program content,

the keyword combination being determined by the multimedia client based on words identified by way of analysis of the program content, and

the keyword combination describing an action that occurred during an event displayed during the program content;

determining, by the one or more devices and based on the keyword combination, an advertisement that is associated with a person who performed the action during the event; and

sending, by the one or more devices, the advertisement to the multimedia client for the multimedia client to provide, for display, the advertisement in an interactive overlay on the program content during a replay of the action.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

storing, by the one or more devices and in a memory, a selection history regarding a selection of the advertisement for the multimedia client, and

providing data associated with the advertisement based on the selection history.

15. The method of claim 13, where sending the advertisement includes:

sending, by the one or more devices, instructions to the multimedia client to retrieve the advertisement,

receiving, from the multimedia client, a pull request for the advertisement, and

sending the advertisement to the multimedia client based on the pull request.

16. The method of claim 13, where determining the advertisement to be provided to the multimedia client includes:

receiving user profile information associated with the multimedia client;

cross-referencing the keyword combination against a list of available advertisements to identify a subset of candidate advertisements; and

selecting, from the subset of candidate advertisements, the advertisement to be provided to the multimedia client based on the user profile information.

17. A system comprising:

one or more processors to;

receive a keyword combination identified based on words identified by way of analysis of television content being provided to a multimedia client,

the keyword combination identifying an action that occurred during an event displayed during the television content and a person who performed the action during the event;

select, based on the keyword combination that identifies the action and the person, an advertisement; and

send, to the multimedia client, pull instructions for the multimedia client to retrieve the advertisement based on the pull instructions and to display the advertisement as an interactive overlay on the television content during a replay of the action.

18. The system of claim 17, where, when selecting the advertisement, the one or more processors are to:

retrieve user profile information associated with the multimedia client, and

select the advertisement based on the keyword combination and the user profile information.

22. The system of claim 17, where, when selecting the advertisement, the one or more processors are to:

identify the person who performed the action during the event based on the keyword combination, and

select the advertisement that is for a product endorsed by the person.

19. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising:

one or more instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to;

send, to a multimedia client, television program content requested by a viewer;

identify a keyword combination based on proximity of terms of play-by-play commentary of the television program content,

the keyword combination describing an action that occurred during an event displayed during the television program content;

select, from a list of advertisements and based on the keyword combination, a particular advertisement that is associated with a person who performed the action during the event; and

send, to the multimedia client, instructions for the multimedia client to retrieve the particular advertisement and to provide the particular advertisement as an interactive overlay on the television program content during a replay of the action.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 19, further comprising:

one or more instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to;

retrieve user profile information associated with the multimedia client; and

modify the list of advertisements based on the user profile information.

23. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 19, where the one or more instructions to identify the keyword combination include:

one or more instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to;

identify a first term, of the terms, by way of analysis of the play-by-play commentary of the television program content,

identify a second term, of the terms, by way of analysis of the play-by-play commentary of the television program content,

determine that the first term occurs within a particular distance of the second term during the television program content, and

identify the keyword combination based on determining that the first term is within the particular distance of the second term.