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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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)....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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”...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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