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7624409 Multi-market broadcast tracking, management and reporting method and system  
A method for confirming and reporting on fulfilled and unfulfilled advertising orders includes assigning unique identifiers to a plurality of commercial advertisements, recording information...
7614065 System and method for verifying content displayed on an electronic visual display  
A system and method for providing multiple levels of verification of content displayed on an electronic display. A verification code signal representative of a verification code may be displayed...
7607148 Method and apparatus for monitoring an information distribution system  
Techniques to monitor operation of an information distribution system and delivery of programming, guide data, and other information by the system. These techniques may be used for diagnostics,...
7587729 Tracking promoted listings  
Promoted listing are generated and transmitted to client devices where they are displayed prominently in relation to non-promoted listings. The client devices record tracking data that indicates...
7577841 Watermark placement in watermarking of time varying media signals  
A method of placing a watermark in a video stream estimates motion between frames in the video stream, and computes a representative motion for a frame. Before embedding the watermark in that...
7577715 Content providing system, receiving device and method, recording medium and program  
The present invention relates to a content providing system, a receiving apparatus and method, a storage medium, and a program, which enable to perform a variety of contents provisions. An...
7523474 System and method for providing user control over repeating objects embedded in a stream  
Many media streams contain “objects” that repeat. Repeating objects in a media stream are defined as any section of non-negligible duration, i.e., a song, video, advertisement, jingle, etc.,...
7523166 Method and device for message broadcasting enabling the recipient to retrieve at least partly a message  
In an interactive method for restoring messages in an automated message broadcast system, the automated message broadcast system comprises at least a message storage system ( 10 ) storing messages...
7502546 Method and apparatus for digitally recording and synchronously retrieving a plurality of video signals  
A method and apparatus for connecting a plurality of digital video recorders to a plurality of video transmitters via first transmission lines and for connecting the plurality of digital video...
7502513 Commercial detector with a start of active video detector  
A method for classifying a first video type and a second video type in a digital video signal having a series of frames is disclosed. The method generally includes a first step of (A) reading a...
7496943 Network system for presenting advertising  
A networked system is disclosed for presenting advertising during on-line interactions between a user and a service of a network (e.g., the Internet, interactive cable, and/or a LAN)....
7487526 Method for object retransmission without a continuous network connection in a digital media distributor system  
The present invention provides a method for object retransmission in an asynchronous environment without a continuous network connection in a digital media distributor (DMD) system. The method...
7484656 Apparatus, system, and method for correlating a cost of media service to advertising exposure  
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for correlating a cost of receiving media to a user's exposure to advertising. A media display system including a media recorder detects and reports...
7467188 Method for scheduling and transmitting messages  
A method for scheduling and transmitting messages is disclosed. The method comprises storing a plurality of audio files in an audio database, generating a schedule of queued messages via the...
7457832 Verifying dynamically generated operations on a data store  
Verifying dynamically generated operations on a data store includes carrying out setup actions for access to the data store, the setup actions being based at least in part on a request for which...
7412355 Analog display of signal swing and logic analyzer thresholds  
A Logic Analyzer has an intuitive and informative analog presentation of signal activity and threshold settings formed by gathering a collection of factors pertaining to the measurement to be...
7409422 Declarative page view and click tracking systems and methods  
Declarative page view and click tracking systems and methods are described. To utilize page view and/or click tracking, a web page developer includes a link identifier in a function call or build...
7400364 Sub-program avoidance redirection for broadcast receivers  
A system for automatically tuning a primary broadcast receiver using a secondary broadcast receiver to receive a first broadcast signal corresponding to a source of an origin program, one or more...
7366461 Method and apparatus for improving the quality of a recorded broadcast audio program  
Recordings of broadcast audio content often contain errors (e.g., noise, signal loss, interference, talkover). A method and apparatus are provided for improving the quality of such a recording....
7350223 Multi-media data automatic delivery system  
A system for delivering contents includes a center system which delivers the contents, a plurality of terminal systems which receive the contents from the center system and displays the contents,...
7313802 Method and system to provide deals and promotions via an interactive video casting system  
A viewer of an interactive video casting system can be presented with promotions having purchase offers or offers of credits toward future purchases. These promotions can be provided by correlating...
7299483 System and method for determining and notifying users of the expected time-channel for a television series  
Methods, algorithms, database structures, and reports for informing consumers of changes in times and channels at which episodes of a television (TV) series are aired on television each week. Based...
7237250 Promotion server using video on demand channel  
Idle Video-On-Demand (VOD) channel capacity is used to deliver promotional content to selected set-top boxes (STBs) in a cable television network. Commercial segment cues are used to instruct a...
7222071 Audio data receipt/exposure measurement with code monitoring and signature extraction  
Systems and methods are provided for gathering audience measurement data relating to receipt of and/or exposure to audio data by an audience member. Audio data is monitored to detect a monitoring...
7212988 Test screening of videos  
The present invention is directed to methods for facilitating video test screening on an electronic visual communications network. One step is to establish a database for a video test screening...
7194752 Method and apparatus for automatically recognizing input audio and/or video streams  
A method and system for the automatic identification of audio, video, multimedia, and/or data recordings based on immutable characteristics of these works. The invention does not require the...
7174126 Technique for effectively accessing programming listing information in an entertainment delivery system  
In a broadband communications system, e.g., a cable system, programming content can be readily reserved and accessed for viewing using an interactive program guide, a network home graphic user...
7164798 Learning-based automatic commercial content detection  
Systems and methods for learning-based automatic commercial content detection are described. In one aspect, program data is divided into multiple segments. The segments are analyzed to determine...
7158185 Method and apparatus for tagging media presentations with subscriber identification information  
A system that inserts subscriber identification information includes, in a preferred embodiment, a system with a memory for storing subscriber identification information and a processor configured...
7139813 Timedependent hyperlink system in videocontent  
A time-dependent hyperlink is associated with a video of a content server. The time dependent link is cross-referenced with coordinates and time that it appears in the video. A user may select the...
7089575 Method of using transcript information to identify and learn commercial portions of a program  
Advertisers want to deliver their message in a relatively short period of time. This leads to the product name, company name and other identifying features being repeated frequently during a...
7085613 System for monitoring audio content in a video broadcast  
A method is provided for monitoring audio content in a video broadcast. According to the method, an audio datastream from the video broadcast is received, and audio identifying information is...
7064796 Method and system for re-identifying broadcast segments using statistical profiles  
A method and system for extracting segments from a broadcast television signal uses a mean display attribute value of pixels of each successive frame of a video component of the signal to identify...
7043746 System and method for re-assuring delivery of television advertisements non-intrusively in real-time broadcast and time shift recording  
An advertising content redelivery system for use with real-time broadcasting and time shift recording includes a confirmation component detecting skipping of advertising content by a user. An input...
7039931 Multi-market broadcast tracking, management and reporting method and system  
A method of analyzing multi-market broadcasts of commercial advertisements, has unique identifiers are assigned to a plurality of expected commercial advertisements, information regarding the...
7039930 Television advertising automated billing system  
Advertising is marked with a code in a way which makes it difficult to fool the system. The advertising is marked with a code at the time the advertising is produced. Then, when the advertising is...
6993245 Iterative, maximally probable, batch-mode commercial detection for audiovisual content  
Identification of starting and ending times of commercial breaks and commercials within those commercial breaks found in audiovisual content is disclosed. A solution to a “batch optimization”...
6983311 Access to internet search capabilities  
In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a client application for enabling access to an online service and displaying advertisements while the user is accessing the online...
6961953 System and method for broadcasting advertisements  
A broadcast system provides consumers with inducement to consume portions in which they may not have an active interest, such as commercials. To dissuade consumers from leaving the vicinity of the...
6901606 Method and apparatus for detecting time-compressed broadcast content  
A method and apparatus for detecting time compression of broadcast content that has been encoded with time data, includes a processor for comparing encoded time data with broadcast time data to...
6892387 System and method for compensating viewer for viewing of designated channel with reduction of telephone charges  
Disclosed is a system for compensating a viewer for viewing of a designated channel with reduction of telephone charges. The system comprises a signal input port to which image signals from a...
6829782 System for accessing a remote processor on a network  
A system for accessing a remote processor on a network The system includes a data set relating to a commercial event, embedded in a broadcast. A receiving device responsive to a non-video portion...
6829778 Method and system for limiting repetitive presentations based on content filtering  
A method of limiting the number of presentations or observations of information items, such as advertising images, that are repetitively distributed among a plurality of transmitted materials is...
6799326 Interactive television program guide system with local advertisements  
A program guide system is provided in which local advertisements may be distributed to interactive television program guides implemented on the user television equipment associated with a...
6771316 Method and apparatus for selectively altering a televised video signal in real-time  
The method and apparatus operates in a television receiver to identify unwanted broadcast segments, such as commercial advertisements, of a television signal in real-time for the purpose of...
6766524 System and method for encouraging viewers to watch television programs  
Described are methods and apparatus for encouraging viewers to pay attention to television programs, commercials in particular, by offering viewers some incentive to watch. In one embodiment,...
6712616 System for education about names  
The invention relates to a system ( 20 ) and a method and signal used for broadcasting of a media package ( 28 ). In the media package, a name list is established for a predetermined period of days...
6704787 Date of birth authentication system and method using demographic and/or geographic data supplied by a subscriber that is verified by a third party  
A system or method for an access code issuer to receive an on-line application including certain personal information from a user of a computer network such as the Internet, to independently...
6678890 Bidirectional transmission/reception system and method and transmission apparatus  
A system and a method for bidirectional transmission/reception in which the information aired in e.g., television broadcast can be received with a high probability to permit a sponsor to readily...
6671880 Method and apparatus for customized rendering of commercials  
An entertainment system receives entertainment programming interposed with commercials. The entertainment system selectively renders the commercial in accordance with characteristics associated...
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