公开(公告)号：US07870283B2

公开(公告)日：2011-01-11

申请号：US10067460

申请日：2002-02-04

申请人： Brian N. Sedlak ,  Thomas Lemmons ,  Gary Rasmussen ,  Ian Zenoni ,  Thomas Huber

发明人： Brian N. Sedlak ,  Thomas Lemmons ,  Gary Rasmussen ,  Ian Zenoni ,  Thomas Huber

IPC分类号： G06F15/16 ,  H04N7/173

CPC分类号： H04N7/17336 ,  H04L65/4092 ,  H04N21/23109 ,  H04N21/23113 ,  H04N21/488 ,  H04N21/4886 ,  H04N21/60 ,  H04N21/65 ,  H04N21/6581

摘要： Disclosed is a system that optimizes transmission bandwidth of a broadband transmission system such as a cable television, satellite system, or wireless information service. Requests for content items from users are employed to add or delete content items from a list. Content items in the list are ranked relative to the number of requests received or by rate of request. Package groups are created with most requested content items being broadcast more frequently than less requested content items. Transmit groups are produced from package groups and placed in a broadcast queue. A transmit process transmits groups retrieved from the queue.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种优化诸如有线电视，卫星系统或无线信息服务之类的宽带传输系统的传输带宽的系统。 来自用户的内容项的请求用于从列表中添加或删除内容项。 列表中的内容项目相对于接收到的请求数量或请求速率进行排名。 创建包组，其中大多数请求的内容项比较少请求的内容项更频繁地广播。 发送组是从包组生成并放置在广播队列中。 发送过程发送从队列中检索到的组。

公开(公告)号：US20110099288A1

公开(公告)日：2011-04-28

申请号：US12984413

申请日：2011-01-04

申请人： Brian N. Sedlak ,  Thomas Lemmons ,  Gary Rasmussen ,  Ian Zenoni ,  Thomas Huber

发明人： Brian N. Sedlak ,  Thomas Lemmons ,  Gary Rasmussen ,  Ian Zenoni ,  Thomas Huber

IPC分类号： G06F15/16

CPC分类号： H04N7/17336 ,  H04L65/4092 ,  H04N21/23109 ,  H04N21/23113 ,  H04N21/488 ,  H04N21/4886 ,  H04N21/60 ,  H04N21/65 ,  H04N21/6581

摘要： Disclosed is a system that optimizes transmission bandwidth of a broadband transmission system such as a cable television, satellite system, or wireless information service. Requests for content items from users are employed to add or delete content items from a list. Content items in the list are ranked relative to the number of requests received or by rate of request. Package groups are created with most requested content items being broadcast more frequently than less requested content items. Transmit groups are produced from package groups and placed in a broadcast queue. A transmit process transmits groups retrieved from the queue.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种优化诸如有线电视，卫星系统或无线信息服务之类的宽带传输系统的传输带宽的系统。 来自用户的内容项的请求用于从列表中添加或删除内容项。 列表中的内容项目相对于接收到的请求数量或请求速率进行排名。 创建包组，其中大多数请求的内容项比较少请求的内容项更频繁地广播。 发送组是从包组生成并放置在广播队列中。 发送过程发送从队列中检索到的组。

公开(公告)号：US08429290B2

公开(公告)日：2013-04-23

申请号：US12984413

申请日：2011-01-04

申请人： Brian Sedlak ,  Thomas Lemmons ,  Gary Rasmussen ,  Ian Zenoni ,  Thomas Huber

发明人： Brian Sedlak ,  Thomas Lemmons ,  Gary Rasmussen ,  Ian Zenoni ,  Thomas Huber

IPC分类号： G06F15/16 ,  H04N7/173

CPC分类号： H04N7/17336 ,  H04L65/4092 ,  H04N21/23109 ,  H04N21/23113 ,  H04N21/488 ,  H04N21/4886 ,  H04N21/60 ,  H04N21/65 ,  H04N21/6581

摘要： Disclosed is a system that optimizes transmission bandwidth of a broadband transmission system such as a cable television, satellite system, or wireless information service. Requests for content items from users are employed to add or delete content items from a list. Content items in the list are ranked relative to the number of requests received or by rate of request. Package groups are created with most requested content items being broadcast more frequently than less requested content items. Transmit groups are produced from package groups and placed in a broadcast queue. A transmit process transmits groups retrieved from the queue.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种优化诸如有线电视，卫星系统或无线信息服务之类的宽带传输系统的传输带宽的系统。 来自用户的内容项的请求用于从列表中添加或删除内容项。 列表中的内容项目相对于接收到的请求数量或请求速率进行排名。 创建包组，其中大多数请求的内容项比较少请求的内容项更频繁地广播。 发送组是从包组生成并放置在广播队列中。 发送过程发送从队列中检索到的组。

公开(公告)号：US20130212635A1

公开(公告)日：2013-08-15

申请号：US13848073

申请日：2013-03-21

申请人： Brian Sedlak ,  Thomas Lemmons ,  Gary Rasmussen ,  Ian Zenoni ,  Thomas Huber

发明人： Brian Sedlak ,  Thomas Lemmons ,  Gary Rasmussen ,  Ian Zenoni ,  Thomas Huber

IPC分类号： H04N21/65

CPC分类号： H04N7/17336 ,  H04L65/4092 ,  H04N21/23109 ,  H04N21/23113 ,  H04N21/488 ,  H04N21/4886 ,  H04N21/60 ,  H04N21/65 ,  H04N21/6581

摘要： Disclosed is a system that optimizes transmission bandwidth of a broadband transmission system such as a cable television, satellite system, or wireless information service. Requests for content items from users are employed to add or delete content items from a list. Content items in the list are ranked relative to the number of requests received or by rate of request. Package groups are created with most requested content items being broadcast more frequently than less requested content items. Transmit groups are produced from package groups and placed in a broadcast queue. A transmit process transmits groups retrieved from the queue.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种优化诸如有线电视，卫星系统或无线信息服务之类的宽带传输系统的传输带宽的系统。 来自用户的内容项的请求用于从列表中添加或删除内容项。 列表中的内容项目相对于接收到的请求数量或请求速率进行排名。 创建包组，其中大多数请求的内容项比较少请求的内容项更频繁地广播。 发送组是从包组生成并放置在广播队列中。 发送过程发送从队列中检索到的组。

公开(公告)号：US08932136B2

公开(公告)日：2015-01-13

申请号：US09939306

申请日：2001-08-24

申请人： Thomas Lemmons ,  Ian Zenoni ,  Thomas Huber ,  Steven O. Markel ,  Mark Margaretten ,  Steven Reynolds ,  Joel Hassell

发明人： Thomas Lemmons ,  Ian Zenoni ,  Thomas Huber ,  Steven O. Markel ,  Mark Margaretten ,  Steven Reynolds ,  Joel Hassell

IPC分类号： A63F13/00 ,  G06F17/00 ,  G06F19/00 ,  H04N7/08 ,  H04N7/173 ,  A63F3/08

CPC分类号： A63F13/35 ,  A63F3/081 ,  A63F13/61 ,  A63F2003/083 ,  A63F2003/086 ,  A63F2300/409 ,  A63F2300/50 ,  A63F2300/807

摘要： The present invention is an interactive system and method whereby participants may engage in a contest that is simultaneously or subsequently broadcast. The broadcast signal may be for the purpose of a pure entertainment source or may be an enticement to play the shown or other interactive games. The games may be computer simulation games, role-playing games, strategy games, question and answer games, casino games, or other games as desired. The broadcast signals may show a specialized view of the game being played and may contain live commentary or other enhancements. The games may be played with set top boxes connected to a television, a broadcast network, and a server system.

摘要翻译： 本发明是一种交互式系统和方法，其中参与者可以参与同时或随后广播的比赛。 广播信号可以是纯粹的娱乐来源的目的，或者可能是诱使所演示的或其他交互式游戏。 游戏可以是计算机模拟游戏，角色扮演游戏，策略游戏，问答游戏，赌场游戏或其他游戏。 广播信号可以显示正在播放的游戏的专门视图，并且可以包含现场评论或其他增强功能。 游戏可以与连接到电视，广播网络和服务器系统的机顶盒一起播放。

公开(公告)号：US20050137958A1

公开(公告)日：2005-06-23

申请号：US10745899

申请日：2003-12-23

申请人： Thomas Huber ,  Thomas Lemmons ,  Ian Zenoni

发明人： Thomas Huber ,  Thomas Lemmons ,  Ian Zenoni

IPC分类号： G06Q30/00 ,  G06F17/60

CPC分类号： H04N21/812 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  G06Q30/0275 ,  G06Q30/08 ,  G06Q40/04

摘要： Disclosed is a process for an advertising bidding system in which advertisers can bid on advertising time slots or enhanced ads that can be inserted in either prerecorded or live television programming. A high degree of flexibility is provided by allowing embedded ads to be purchased and displayed in a very short time period. This allows TV broadcasters to increase revenues and allows advertisers to have more flexibility in advertising. Objects can be inserted in the display video broadcast using enhancements such as by using mark-up language overlay pages or by video combination techniques. The effect of these ads can be evaluated for advertising campaigns.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种广告投标系统的过程，其中广告商可以对可以插入预录或直播电视节目中的广告时段或增强广告进行出价。 通过允许在非常短的时间内购买和显示嵌入式广告来提供高度的灵活性。 这允许电视广播机构增加收入，并允许广告客户在广告中具有更大的灵活性。 可以使用诸如通过使用标记语言覆盖页面或通过视频组合技术的增强来将对象插入到显示器视频广播中。 可以对广告活动评估这些广告的效果。

公开(公告)号：US08522273B2

公开(公告)日：2013-08-27

申请号：US13175663

申请日：2011-07-01

申请人： Thomas Huber ,  Thomas Lemmons ,  Ian Zenoni

发明人： Thomas Huber ,  Thomas Lemmons ,  Ian Zenoni

IPC分类号： H04N7/10

CPC分类号： H04N21/812 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  G06Q30/0275 ,  G06Q30/08 ,  G06Q40/04

摘要： Disclosed is a process for an advertising bidding system in which advertisers can bid on advertising time slots or enhanced ads that can be inserted in either prerecorded or live television programming. A high degree of flexibility is provided by allowing embedded ads to be purchased and displayed in a very short time period. This allows TV broadcasters to increase revenues and allows advertisers to have more flexibility in advertising. Objects can be inserted in the display video broadcast using enhancements such as by using mark-up language overlay pages or by video combination techniques. The effect of these ads can be evaluated for advertising campaigns.

公开(公告)号：US20130031582A1

公开(公告)日：2013-01-31

申请号：US13621794

申请日：2012-09-17

申请人： John Tinsman ,  Thomas Huber ,  Thomas Lemmons ,  Ian Zenoni

发明人： John Tinsman ,  Thomas Huber ,  Thomas Lemmons ,  Ian Zenoni

IPC分类号： H04N21/236

CPC分类号： G06Q30/0275 ,  H04N21/2353 ,  H04N21/237 ,  H04N21/4316 ,  H04N21/8583

摘要： In various example embodiments, a system and method for automatic localization of advertisements is provided. In example embodiments, a transmission signal is received. A portion of the transmission signal is identified. A determination of whether localized advertisement data corresponds to the identified portion is performed. Localized advertisement data that correspond to the identified portion of the transmission signal is retrieved. The localized advertisement data is then inserted into the identified portion of the transmission signal to generate an altered signal. The altered signal is transmitted to a user device.

摘要翻译： 在各种示例性实施例中，提供了用于广告的自动定位的系统和方法。 在示例实施例中，接收发送信号。 识别发送信号的一部分。 执行本地化广告数据对应于所识别的部分的确定。 检索对应于发送信号的识别部分的本地化广告数据。 然后将本地化的广告数据插入到发送信号的识别部分中，以产生改变的信号。 改变的信号被传送到用户设备。

公开(公告)号：US20130024293A1

公开(公告)日：2013-01-24

申请号：US13621782

申请日：2012-09-17

申请人： John Tinsman ,  Thomas Huber ,  Thomas Lemmons ,  Ian Zenoni

发明人： John Tinsman ,  Thomas Huber ,  Thomas Lemmons ,  Ian Zenoni

IPC分类号： G06Q30/02

CPC分类号： G06Q30/0275

摘要： In various example embodiments, a system and method for offering and billing advertisement opportunities are provided. In example embodiments, an advertisement opportunity in media to be communicated to a user device associated with a viewer is identified. Attributes of the advertisement opportunity are determined. Based on these attributes, a value to assign to the advertisement opportunity is determined. The advertisement opportunity is offered to a potential advertiser based on the assigned value determined using the attributes of the advertisement opportunity.

摘要翻译： 在各种示例实施例中，提供了用于提供和计费广告机会的系统和方法。 在示例实施例中，识别要传送到与观看者相关联的用户设备的媒体中的广告机会。 确定广告机会的属性。 基于这些属性，确定分配给广告机会的值。 基于使用广告机会的属性确定的分配值，向潜在广告商提供广告机会。

公开(公告)号：US20130019261A1

公开(公告)日：2013-01-17

申请号：US13621733

申请日：2012-09-17

申请人： Thomas Huber ,  Thomas Lemmons ,  Ian Zenoni ,  Debra Hensgen

发明人： Thomas Huber ,  Thomas Lemmons ,  Ian Zenoni ,  Debra Hensgen

IPC分类号： H04N21/80

CPC分类号： G06Q30/08 ,  G06Q30/0269

摘要： In example embodiments, a system and method for providing interactive advertisement is provided. In some embodiments, a component causes a video program having an interactive advertisement to be displayed to a user on a display screen. The interactive advertisement includes an enhanced content activator. In response to activation of the enhanced content activator by the user, enhanced advertisement information including at least one trigger is provisioned. The enhanced advertisement information is then caused to be displayed with the video program and the interactive advertisement. A selection by the user of the at least one trigger associated with the enhanced advertisement information is monitored. In response to selection of the at least one trigger, access to further content associated with the enhanced content information is provided.

摘要翻译： 在示例实施例中，提供了一种用于提供交互式广告的系统和方法。 在一些实施例中，组件使得具有交互式广告的视频节目在显示屏幕上显示给用户。 互动广告包括增强内容激活器。 响应于用户激活增强内容激活器，提供包括至少一个触发的增强广告信息。 然后使增强的广告信息与视频节目和交互式广告一起显示。 监视与增强的广告信息相关联的至少一个触发器的用户的选择。 响应于对至少一个触发器的选择，提供对与增强内容信息相关联的更多内容的访问。