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| 20080209463 | Information management system and method, center processing apparatus and method, program and recording medium used therewith, and information processing apparatus and method, and program and recording medium used therewith - The present invention provides users with functions matching their preferences. In an information processing apparatus, a user-information analyzing unit analyzes user information and calculates a variation in parameter. A procedure selecting unit classifies, based on the calculated amount, the user into a predetermined group, and acquires, from a procedure database, a procedure corresponding to the group of the user. A basic part producing unit records, in a product's ROM, various set values. Based on the result of analysis by the user-information analyzing unit, a unique part producing unit records an initial parameter value in the product's ROM. A system controller controls a storage unit to store a characteristic amount extracted by an image-characteristic-amount extracting unit and setting conditions on the image processing which are supplied from a remote control signal receiving circuit so that both are associated to each other. The present invention may apply to television receivers. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080229351 | Display device and remote control device for the same - A display device collects pieces of EPG information, stores the program information of a viewed program as a piece of viewing history information, counts the number of occurrences of each of categories in viewing history information and calculates the priority of each category based on the number of occurrences, and stores it in a priority information storage unit. Then, the display device selects one or more programs in a category having the highest priority based on the pieces of program information of programs currently being broadcasted and priority information at power-on, displays the selected programs in thumbnail screens on a display and, if one of the thumbnail screens is selected as an object to be viewed, switches the display screen for the program to a normal screen. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080244634 | System and Method for Inputting Preferences Into Recommender/Profiling System - A user profiling system that receives user command/control selections related to content currently being provided to the user. A processor acts on the command/control selections and also determines whether the command/control selections are volume related command/control selections. In a case where the command/control selections are volume related, the processor utilizes these volume related command/control selections as an input to a user profile of the user profiling system. The user profile may be utilized for providing recommendations of content to the user. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080250442 | TELEVISION RECEPTION CONTROL SYSTEM - In a television reception control system, a master reception device receives and plays back broadcast data from a cable television network, and communicates with a slave reception device via an in-home network. The slave reception device receives and plays back the broadcast data from the cable television network, and communicates with the master reception device via the in-home network, and when no connection with the master reception device is established for a predetermined period of time, the slave reception device is suspended from receiving the broadcast data. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080313665 | PRODUCT, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY TUNING A TELEVISION SET DURING ACTIVATION - The invention discloses a product, method and system for dynamically tuning the “default” television (TV) channel displayed during activation of a television set, which can be individually programmed by the viewer (i.e., the “default” or current choice) or automatically selected by determining the TV station(s) and/or program(s) that are most popular or important to that viewer (i.e., based on a collective viewing audience such as through use of social networking techniques). | 12-18-2008 |
| 20090007169 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING MEDIA CONSUMPTION DATA BASED ON USAGE INFORMATION - Methods and apparatus for collecting media consumption data based on usage information of a media delivery device are disclosed. In an example method, media information is received by a portable metering device associated with a monitored individual such as a portable telephone, a personal digital assistant, and/or a handheld computer. Usage information indicative of a media delivery event associated with a media delivery device such as a television is monitored by the portable metering device. To form the media consumption data, the media information is associated with one of a first channel and a second channel based on the usage information. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090019467 | Method and System for Providing Virtual Co-Presence to Broadcast Audiences in an Online Broadcasting System - There is provided an online broadcasting system for providing virtual co-presence to broadcast audiences. The online broadcasting system may comprise a plurality of user terminals, a user reaction processing server and a broadcast server configured to transmit broadcast program data to the user terminals. The user terminals may be configured to: display a broadcast program based on the broadcast program data; receive individual user reaction data from a user input interface; and transmit the received individual user reaction data to the broadcast server. The user reaction processing server may be configured to: receive the individual user reaction data from each of the user terminals; aggregate the individual user reaction data to create total user reaction data based on the received individual user reaction data; generate interface control data based on the total user reaction data, wherein the interface control data, when executed, is operative to cause a client application to generate output indicative of the total user reaction data; and transmit the generated interface control data to at least one of the user terminals. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090025025 | System and method of determining viewership information - Systems and methods of determining viewership information are provided. A method of determining viewership information includes determining viewership information from multicast routing table data associated with one or more edge routers of a media content delivery service. Each edge router of the one or more edge routers is adapted to transmit media content streams to multiple devices via a first network. The method also includes sending data related to the viewership information to a requesting device via a second network. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090049466 | Using Utility Outlets to Determine and Report Media-Based Activity - Utility outlets such as light switches, power sockets and permanently mounted light sockets for detecting, measuring and reporting user parameters and/or media based activity in a premises. System and methods for measuring media activity in a premises using utility outlets. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090055854 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR COOPERATOR INSTALLED METERS - Methods and apparatus for cooperator installed meters are disclosed. An example method includes receiving audience information, configuring the audience meter based on the audience information, placing the audience meter in a sleep mode, and shipping the audience meter to a location associated with the audience information. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090077577 | Method and Apparatus for Determining Bandwidth Savings Achieved By Transforming Selected Broadcast Channels to Switched Digital Video Channels in a Content Delivery System Without Transformation of the Selected Channels - A method is provided for acquiring channel viewership information in a content delivery system. The method begins by receiving a plurality of messages over an access network each indicating that a subscriber is switching to a specified broadcast channel. The information obtained from the messages is aggregated to generate channel viewership information identifying a number of subscribers tuned to each broadcast channel over a period of time. The channel viewership information is presented in a selected format. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090083779 | DIGITAL CONTENT PROMOTION - Embodiments of digital content promotion are disclosed. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090083780 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING DEMAND BASED SERVICES - A system and method may include monitoring content being displayed at a display device to generate monitoring data that includes a program identifier, communicating the monitoring data to a server, the server determining which programs to include in an on-demand lineup based on the monitoring data and generating an on-demand lineup message to identify on-demand programs included in the on-demand lineup, and receiving the on-demand lineup message from the server. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090089823 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO COLLECT MEDIA MONITORING INFORMATION - Example methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to collect metering information associated with media presented media presentation devices are disclosed. A disclosed example system for collecting metering information includes a media meter to generate media monitoring information in response to media presented by a media presentation device. The example system also includes a peripheral memory device removably couplable by an audience member to the media meter to receive the media monitoring information. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090100456 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING ONLINE VIDEO - A method and apparatus for online video analytics provides a cross-platform, online video analytics solution that enables advertisers and content publishers to assess the effectiveness of their video clips better, gain more insights into viewership demographics and behavior, and track and compare online video viewership across multiple video sharing websites. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090133048 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY RATING VIDEO CONTENT - System and method for automatically rating the content of video media based on video operations performed on a media device and in reference to a plurality of rating rules are provided. Usage of the media device is continuously monitored and user actions with respect to operating the video media on the media device are automatically logged. Each rating rule includes a device usage pattern with respect to operating videos on the media device and a rating action indicating adjustments to content ratings of the videos based upon characteristics described by the device usage pattern that are inferred from the recorded user inputted video control operations. When the device usage pattern of a rating rule is inferred from one or more user actions operating a piece of video media directly on the media device, the content rating of the piece of video media is adjusted based on the rating rule. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090138903 | TV REMOTE CONTROL SIGNAL LOG - An interceptor detects command signals from a TV remote control and logs the signals. The signals can be correlated not just to channel number but also to programs by accessing a program/channel database. A log of channels/programs that have been viewed by, e.g., a child can thus be obtained and viewed by a parent. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090158311 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS THAT MOTIVATE TUNING TO A TRANSMISSION CHANNEL FOR A TIME PERIOD - Systems and methods are provided for motivating a user to watch a television channel for a predetermined period of time and enabling access to a media asset related to a program provided on the channel. A tuner is tuned to a transmission channel and a program is received concurrently with a portion of a media asset. The viewing behavior is monitored to determine whether the user tunes to a different transmission channel before a predetermined time period elapses. When the user tunes to a different transmission channel before the predetermined time period elapses, access to the media asset is prevented. When the user stays tuned to the particular transmission channel for the predetermined time period, access to the media asset is enabled. The media asset may be transmitted to a portable user device, such as a mobile phone. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090165030 | Obtaining User Reactions to Video - A user interaction request is received during playback of video content. The user interaction request can be received independent of any indication from the video content that user interaction is possible. In response to receiving the interaction request, one or more menus are displayed allowing the user to select one or more reaction options and to select whether the selected one or more reaction options are to be communicated to another user or to a content provider. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090187934 | INTERACTIVE REVERSE CHANNEL FOR DIRECT BROADCAST SATELLITE SYSTEM - A system and method is disclosed for providing a reverse channel to enable interactive communication between a DBS subscriber and DBS service provider. The addition of an interactive return channel overcomes the problems associated with existing audience measurement systems as well as the problems associated with existing DBS signal security techniques. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090249383 | BROADCAST DATA NETWORK SYSTEM - The invention relates to a system and method for the selective transmission of data to individuals or groups of viewing locations to thereby allow at selected times at least, the targeting of data which is more focussed or targeted to viewers at said locations. This is achieved by detecting and processing data which is indicative of the interaction of viewers with the receiving apparatus at each location and using this possibly in combination with other data, to assess characteristics of the viewers and then select the data to be transmitted to them. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090254932 | INSERTING ADVERTISEMENTS IN A TELEVISION PROGRAM - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for broadcasting television programs, in particular to a method and apparatus for inserting an advertisement into a broadcast television program. An object of the invention is to provide a method for inserting an advertisement segment into a television program of an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) channel, the method comprises the steps of: receiving a request from a user that asks for viewing the television program; monitoring the viewing behavior of the user toward the IPTV channel according to an advertisement policy of the IPTV channel, the advertisement policy comprising providing an advertisement segment based on the user's viewing behavior on the IPTV channel; determining whether the monitored viewing behavior matches the advertisement policy; if the monitored viewing behavior matches the advertisement policy, inserting the advertisement segment into the television program. According to the invention, during the process of viewing a program, a user will have to view a certain amount of advertisements according to a predefined advertisement policy even though the user relocates the television program. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090254933 | Media detection using acoustic recognition - A method and system for detecting certain types of content, such as advertisements, using acoustical means from a media stream. The method uses two matching processes to detect and identify repeated content, the starting and end boundaries of which are then found. This content is used as the basis to find non-repeated content (such as less-frequently repeated advertisements) that are typically located in proximity to repeated content and can be evaluated using Gaussian mixture models (GMMs). The system that implements this method can be used for advertisement detection and monitoring for traditional media, such as television and radio, as well as for Internet-based media, such as streaming video, streaming audio and podcasts. The system can also be used to detect and identify copyrighted material in Internet traffic. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090254934 | Listener Contributed Content and Real-Time Data Collection with Ranking Service - A computing device includes a processor and memory. The memory encodes instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to create: a first module programmed to allow consumers to push content into a distribution channel and share feedback of broadcasted media by voting and sharing feedback; a second module programmed to automatically suggest adjustment of programming of a media center based on the feedback from the consumers; a third module programmed to identify current demographic information of the consumers that are listening to media and giving feedback, and to automatically suggest adjustment of the programming of the media center based on the demographic information; a fourth module programmed to monitor the consumers' action information, including actions of turning the media on or off, or changing to another media, and automatically suggest adjustment of programming of a media center based on the action information. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090271813 | VIEWER DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE IN A DIRECT BROADCAST SATELLITE TELEVISION NETWORK - A system and method for collecting viewership data. The inventive system ( | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090276801 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CUSTOMIZING INFORMATION - A method for customizing information is provided. The method monitors electronic activities through a communication link coupling a consumer system and a service provider, the consumer system including a plurality of communication devices. The method determines in response to the monitoring which of the plurality of communication devices are operating and collects activity information indicative of activities of each of a plurality of consumers in accessing electronic content through one or more of the communication devices. The method associates the collected activity information corresponding to each of the plurality of consumers with one of the plurality of activity profiles maintained in a database. The method also customizes information in response to the plurality of associated activity profiles for delivery to corresponding consumers | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090288109 | REQUEST FOR INFORMATION RELATED TO BROADCAST NETWORK CONTENT - A request for information (RFI) system is provided for use in communications networks including broadcast networks and the internet. In one implementation, a viewer of a cable television network enters an RFI input ( | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090320055 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONSERVING ENERGY IN AN ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM - Apparatus, systems and methods are described for conserving energy in an entertainment system. An entertainment device tracks usage patterns of a user over time while outputting presentation content and utilizes the collected information to determine whether to automatically enter a low power mode state at appropriate times. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090328090 | Digital Television Channel Trending - Channel trending, including determining a number of viewers watching a multimedia program, is achieved in a digital television network. Cached multimedia frames that correspond to portions of the multimedia program are maintained, for example, on a device located on an edge (i.e., in a network edge device) of the digital television network. In response to a request from a client device (e.g., a set-top box) to receive the multimedia program, cached multimedia frames are fed from the edge device to the client device. Upon a seamless transfer or handoff resulting in a simulcast replicator or multicast replicator providing further portions of the multimedia program, a signal (e.g., a simple network management protocol TRAP statement) is sent to a viewership statistic server for incrementing a counter. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100011389 | SYSTEM FOR GATHERING TV AUDIENCE RATING IN REAL TIME IN INTERNET PROTOCOL TELEVISION NETWORK AND METHOD THEREOF - A system for surveying audience ratings in real-time in an Internet protocol TV (IPTV) network and a method thereof are provided. The system for surveying audience ratings in real-time includes an electronic program guide (EPG) server providing channel information and audience rating survey server information to an IPTV client; the IPTV client outputting periodically reception information including channel and subscriber information, the channel being received after being selected based on the channel information; and an audience rating survey server surveying audience ratings based on the reception information. According to the system and method, the addition of any information in a broadcasting stream is not required for an audience rating survey, additional devices are not requested to be installed in the houses of viewers or listeners, and without the necessity of their cooperation, audience ratings can be automatically performed in real-time. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100017814 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DELIVERING PROMOTIONAL CONTENT FOR PRESENTATION IN AN INTERACTIVE MEDIA GUIDANCE APPLICATION - In some embodiments, methods for delivering promotional content for presentation in a first interactive media guidance application on a first user equipment device are provided, the methods comprising: receiving data corresponding to a plurality of user actions in a second interactive media guidance application; associating at least one of a plurality of weights with each of the plurality of user actions; based upon the plurality of user actions and the at least one of the plurality of weights associated with each user action, determining the likelihood of a user watching at least one of a certain program, a certain type of program, and a certain channel; selecting promotional content for presentation in the first interactive media guidance application based on the determination; and transmitting the promotional content selected to the first user equipment device with program content. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100017815 | Method and Node in an IPTV Network - The present invention relates to a method and a node in an IETV network. The node according to the present invention is configured to use the knowledge of the user channel switching behavior in order to predict user channel switching and to make the channels predicted to be used available close to the STB of the user in advance of the anticipated channel switch. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100023960 | Detection of Video Program Viewing Behavior for Correlation with Advertisement Presentation - A video user's viewing behavior with respect to video program selection is monitored. The monitored behavior is analyzed and a suitable advertising format for display that is related to the monitored viewing behavior is identified. Monitoring, for example, can include detecting channel surfing of available viewing channels, accessing and surfing through programming schedules, fast forwarding or reversing through a recorded program, and pausing display of a program. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100037250 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO VERIFY CONSUMPTION OF PROGRAMMING CONTENT - Methods and apparatus to verify consumption of content are described herein. In an example method, a content library is generated within a data structure. The content library includes at least one content identifier associated with programming content. The programming content is insertable into content stream. A content stream including content for broadcasting on a broadcast device is received. To verify consumption of the programming content, a broadcast content identifier associated with the content for broadcasting is compared to the at least one content identifier of the content library. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100043021 | DETERMINING AUDIENCE RESPONSE TO BROADCAST CONTENT - Audience response to broadcast content can be gauged by determining how many audience members switched stations while particular programs were broadcast. Data indicating audience members' media consumption can be analyzed to determine the number of times audience members tuned to a station or tuned away from the station. Data related to media content broadcast on particular stations can be analyzed to determine what content was being broadcast at times corresponding to the times audience members switched stations. Performance factors can be assigned to particular programs based on this analysis. Determining how many audience members switched during any one program may include retrieving event records, each of which can represent an audience member that was tuned to a particular media station during a time a particular program was being aired. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100050202 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONSTRUCTING AND PRESENTING A CONSUMPTION PROFILE FOR A MEDIA ITEM - A method and system for constructing and presenting a consumption profile, a rating profile, or both a consumption profile and a rating profile for a media item are provided. In general, consumption of a media item by a number of first users is tracked. Thereafter, before and/or during playback of the media item by a second user, a consumption profile for the media item is constructed and presented to the second user. In addition to or as an alternative to tracking consumption of the media item by the first users, ratings for the media item may be obtained from all or a subset of the first users. Thereafter, before and/or during playback of the media item by the second user, a rating profile for the media item is constructed and presented to the second user. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100058377 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AN ENHANCED MEDIA CONTEXT RATING SYSTEM - Methods, apparatus, systems and computer program products are provided for an improved media content rating system. The rating system herein disclosed is highly-granular in nature, in that, the rating system allows for ratings to be based on the number of times that portions, segments, clips of the media file are played or otherwise executed, as opposed to basing the media content rating solely on the number of times that the media file is played. In this regard, the aspects herein described may further provide for ratings of the portions, segments, clips of the media content as opposed to limiting the rating to a rating for the overall media content file. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100077423 | RECEIVING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - The present invention provides a receiving apparatus for receiving digital broadcast having a plurality of channels including a transition unit configured to transit a mode for controlling channel selection from a normal mode to a warning mode in the case that a determining unit determines that the broadcasting program is allowed to obtain a right to receive a reward, and a notifying unit configured to notify, in the warning mode, that the right to receive the reward will be lost, in the case that a detecting unit detects a channel selection operation that selects another channel from the viewing channel broadcasting a broadcast program which is allowed to obtain the right to receive the reward. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100077424 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DISTINGUISH A SIGNAL ORIGINATING FROM A LOCAL DEVICE FROM A BROADCAST SIGNAL - Methods and apparatus to distinguish a signal originating from a local device from a broadcast signal are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes analyzing a first predetermined characteristic of a video component of the audio-video signal to generate a first indication of the source of the audio-video signal, analyzing a second predetermined characteristic of an audio component of the audio-video signal to generate a second indication of the source of the audio-video signal, and determining if the audio-video signal was generated by a local device based on the first and second indications. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100088714 | GENERATING REACH AND FREQUENCY DATA FOR TELEVISION ADVERTISEMENTS - Television reporting records are accessed and processed to generate frequency specific reach values and device frequencies for creatives (e.g., television advertisements). The device frequencies indicating the number of times a creative was presented by use of a particular viewing device. The frequency specific reach values indicating the number of unique viewing devices that were used to present the creative a specified number of times. Estimating frequency specific reach values and device frequencies for a creative for a viewing population. The estimated frequency specific reach values and device frequencies for the viewing population are based on known viewing pattern data for multiple creative airings from a sample of the viewing population (e.g., a subset of the viewing population) and estimated viewing pattern data for the airings for the viewing population. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100095318 | System and Method for Monitoring Audience Response - A system and method are provided for monitoring audience response to a display is disclosed. The method includes measuring audience response to the display by obtaining an electronic video stream at the display. Another operation tags the video stream based on changes in audience response measured at the display, and converts the tagged video stream into quantized audience response data at the display. The quantized audience response data may be processed into audience response analytics through statistical analysis at the display. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100095319 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING TELEVISION VIEWING USING KEYFRAMES - Embodiments of keyframe analysis and distribution from broadcast television are disclosed. For example, embodiments include methods and systems of sharing video frame data over a data network to provide features that may include improved program guides, parental or other monitoring of televisions or other video receivers, and sharing of user identified frames or scenes of video programs. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100115541 | Interactive Computer System for Providing Television Schedule Information - The present invention provides systems and methods for providing television schedule and/or listing information to a viewer, and for allowing the viewer to link, search, select and interact with information in a remote database, e.g., a database on the internet. The television schedule and/or listing information can be displayed on a variety of viewer interfaces, such as televisions screens, computer monitors, PCTV screens and the like. The television schedule and/or listing information may be stored on the viewer's computer, television, PCTV, or a remote server (e.g., a website), or the television schedule and/or listing information may be downloaded from a remote database to the viewer's computer, television or PCTV. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100131969 | Methods and apparatus for audience research in a content-based network - Methods and apparatus for accurate, secure and uniform exchange of audience research data. In one embodiment, viewership data is provided in real-time and offers the ability to monitor audience activities regarding, among others, broadcast, VOD or DVR content. A standardized message configuration is optionally used also to permit maximum uniformity and accessibility of the data. Accuracy of data exchange is enforced by implementing a method of detecting system failures, and the transmission of incomplete messages. Subscriber privacy and anonymity is also maintained via e.g., hashing or encrypting data relating to the CPE and/or subscriber, thus ensuring that stored data is not traceable to a specific user account. The methods and apparatus may also be utilized in conjunction with systems enabling the insertion and/or recommendation of content or advertising based on data collected regarding user actions or events. Business methods are also disclosed. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100146529 | INCIDENT REPORTING IN A MULTIMEDIA CONTENT DISTRIBUTION NETWORK - A method and system for reporting incidents on a multimedia content distribution network (MCDN) includes generating user service alerts when a disruption to a channel of the multimedia content is observed. The user service alert may be generated at a client of the MCDN and recorded along with a timestamp and a channel indicator. A remote control device may be equipped to generate the user service alert. A support event may be generated in response to receiving the user service alert. The support event may cause the disruption to be investigated and a status report to be sent back to the client. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100146530 | CLUSTER ANALYSIS OF VIEWER TENDENCIES - A method performed by one or more computing devices includes determining a relevancy function of viewer tendencies based on set-top box data from a subscription television service and defining a cluster of set-top boxes based on the relevancy function. The method also includes building a tendency profile for the cluster, the tendency profile including predicted actions for viewers within the cluster. The method further includes assigning the set-top box to the cluster and directing a cluster-oriented presentation to a particular set-top box within the cluster. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100146531 | ESTIMATING REACH AND FREQUENCY OF ADVERTISEMENTS - Estimating the reach and device frequency of a proposed advertising campaign based on the probability that advertising content delivery devices (e.g., a television set top box, radio) were used to deliver advertising content (e.g. television ad, radio ad) during specific time periods on specific delivery device channels. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100153984 | User Feedback Based Highlights of Recorded Programs - A television program is recorded by multiple client devices. After feedback regarding playback of the television program by at least a threshold number of other users has been analyzed, a highlight version of the television program is obtained by a client device. The highlight version of the television program is one or more portions of the television program. A user request to playback the highlight version of the television program is received, and in response to this user request, the highlight version of the television program is played back. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100162286 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING TRENDS IN VIDEO CONSUMPTION BASED ON EMBEDDED VIDEO METADATA - Systems and methods are described for analyzing video content in conjunction with historical video consumption data, and identifying and generating relationships, rules, and correlations between the video content and viewer behavior. According to one aspect, a system receives video consumption data associated with one or more output states for one or more videos. The output states generally comprise tracked and recorded viewer behaviors during videos such as pausing, rewinding, fast-forwarding, clicking on an advertisement (for Internet videos), and other similar actions. Next, the system receives metadata associated with the content of one or more videos. The metadata is associated with video content such as actors, places, objects, dialogue, etc. The system then analyzes the received video consumption data and metadata via a multivariate analysis engine to generate an output analysis of the data. The output may be a scatter plot, chart, list, or other similar type of output that is used to identify patterns associated with the metadata and the one or more output states. Finally, the system generates one or more rules incorporating the identified patterns, wherein the one or more rules define relationships between the video content (i.e. metadata) and viewer behavior (i.e. output states). | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100169908 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO ENFORCE A POWER OFF STATE OF AN AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT DEVICE DURING SHIPPING - Methods and apparatus to enforce a power off state of an audience measurement device during shipping of the device are disclosed herein. An example portable audience measurement device includes a housing, a media detector in the housing to collect media exposure data and a packaging sensor to detect an environmental condition exterior to the device. A packaging detector compares the detected environmental condition to a criterion to determine whether the device is located within the package. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100169909 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO ENFORCE A POWER OFF STATE OF AN AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT DEVICE DURING SHIPPING - Methods and apparatus to enforce a power off state of an audience measurement device during shipping of the device are disclosed herein. An example portable audience measurement device includes a housing, a media detector in the housing to collect media exposure data, and a packaging sensor to receive an audio signal. A packaging detector generates a frequency spectrum of the detected audio signal, determines an energy of a first frequency associated with the generated frequency spectrum, determines an energy of a second frequency higher than the first frequency and associated with the generated frequency spectrum, and compares the difference between the energy of the first frequency and the second frequency to a muffling threshold to determine whether the device is located within a package. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100169910 | APPARATUS AND METHODS OF SELECTIVE COLLECTION AND SELECTIVE PRESENTATION OF CONTENT - Disclosed are apparatus and methods operable to distribute targeted content. Additionally, disclosed are corresponding apparatus and methods operable to selectively choose and cache selected ones from among the distributed targeted content, and to further choose ones from among the cached content to present on a device. In some aspects, selective caching of content may be based upon a match between predetermined content attribute information and predetermined profile information. Further, in some aspects, an indicator is operable to trigger the selective inclusion of one or more of the cached content in a presentation of other content, which may be based on a match between a desired content attribute associated with the indicator and the respective predetermined content attribute information of the cached content. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100175078 | PROGRAM GUIDE SYSTEM WITH TARGETED ADVERTISING - An interactive television program guide system is provided in which targeted advertisements may be presented to a user and targeted actions taken in the program guide based on the user's interests. The program guide monitors the user's interactions with the program guide to determine the user's interests. Interactions that may be monitored include interactions that indicate the categories of programming that interest the user (e.g., movies, sports, children's programming, etc.), setting a reminder for a program, purchasing a program, requesting information on a program, browsing program listings for a particular time or channel, etc. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100186026 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING APPRECIATION OBJECT AUTOMATICALLY ACCORDING TO USER'S INTEREST AND VIDEO APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A method for automatically providing an appreciation object based on a user's interest and a video apparatus using the method are provided. The method includes providing the appreciation object if it is determined that a user is less interested in a viewing object currently being provided. Therefore, it is possible to promote appreciation of the appreciation object created based on currently stored content, and to provide the user with entertainment through appreciation of the appreciation object. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100199295 | Dynamic video segment recommendation based on video playback location - A system and method for dynamically providing video segment recommendations to a user based on video metadata, current playback position within the video, and/or the user's previous viewing history or patterns. The system/method also provides the user with a simple mechanism to enable/disable receipt of these recommendations with the click of a button within the display interface. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100199296 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR USING LOCATION INFORMATION TO MANAGE SPILLOVER IN AN AUDIENCE MONITORING SYSTEM - Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for using location information to manage spillover in an audience monitoring system are disclosed. In an example method, a first location signal and a second location signal are received substantially simultaneously at a portable metering device. The first location signal is emitted via a first device located at a first location and includes a first signal characteristic associated with the first location. The second location signal is emitted via a second device located at a second location and includes a second signal characteristic associated with the second location. The first location signal or the second location signal is selected based on the first and second signal characteristics. Media monitoring information is generated based on the selected signal. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100211967 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MAINTAIN AUDIENCE PRIVACY WHILE DETERMINING VIEWING OF VIDEO-ON-DEMAND PROGRAMS - Methods and apparatus to maintain audience privacy while determining viewing of video-on-demand (VOD) programs are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein comprises obtaining subscriber metering data from a site metering device monitoring presentation of VOD content at a first subscriber site, obtaining server metering data from a VOD server, the server metering data including identification information for a plurality of subscriber sites to identify particular VOD content provided uniquely to each of the subscriber sites, the identification information manipulated to preserve anonymity of the plurality of subscriber sites, manipulating at least a portion of the subscriber metering data to determine a first manipulated identifier to identify the first subscriber site, and using the first manipulated identifier to cross-reference the manipulated identification information included in the server metering data to merge the subscriber metering data and the portion of the server metering data uniquely associated with the first subscriber site. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100229190 | CONTENT RECOMMENDING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - A content recommending method and apparatus therefor. The content recommending method involves obtaining location information by tracing movement of a user; analyzing a preference of the user by using the location information; and selecting content to be provided to the user according to the preference. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100235853 | DETECTION OF MEDIA LINKS IN BROADCAST SIGNALS - A detection apparatus includes a tuner tuned to the program and a meter coupled to the tuner and arranged to detect content ancillary information from the program tuned by the tuner. The content ancillary information may be a media link, closed captioning information, or the like. The meter may also be arranged to extract a broadcast signature from the program. A comparator compares the broadcast signature to a reference signature selected from a library of reference signatures based upon the content ancillary information. Broadcast signatures from unknown programs may be clustered at least partially on the basis of the content ancillary information. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100251280 | CONTENT RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON PERSONAL PREFERENCES - A method and system for recommending multimedia content includes collecting consumption information for a plurality of users. The consumption information, along with real-time contextual information, may be used to generate collections of recommended multimedia content, including obtainable multimedia assets. The collections may be offered to a user for purchase. The user may be provided access to the multimedia assets. A unified storefront application, providing access to multimedia content via an Internet-protocol television portal, a web portal, and a mobile portal, may be used to offer and provide access to the multimedia assets. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100275224 | System and Method for Information Delivery Including Delivery Via Video-Based Keyed or Tagged Content - An interactive device/system of and method for delivery, receipt and/or decoding of and/or response to keyed or tagged video content provided in connection with one or more video broadcasts (for example, television or streaming video). Responsive thereto, the system and method may deliver and/or receive video and/or audio information. Such delivery and/or receipt of video and/or audio information may be responsive to content embedded in the broadcast but not visually observed, responsive to broadcast content that is visually observed and then parsed and correlated with a predetermined response, and responsive to a user/operator instruction, input and/or request. The interactive video receiving device may determine a video-based broadcast is an interactive video-based broadcast, wherein, the device automatically provides interaction options and or based on a response by the user/viewer to the video-based broadcast, the video receiving device transmits “interest-level” data (i.e., data which is representative of the viewer's level of interest to the video-based broadcast) to obtain additional information regarding the video-based broadcast. Other inventions are also disclosed. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100275225 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO EXPORT TUNING DATA COLLECTED IN A RECEIVING DEVICE - Methods and apparatus to export tuning data collected in a receiving device are disclosed. An example method of collecting audience measurement data comprises collecting tuning data within a receiving device, and modulating an LED associated with the receiving device to export the collected tuning data from the receiving device. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100281497 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION - An information processing apparatus includes: importance calculation means configured to calculate an experience importance degree of content for a user based the basis of a relationship among a reaction analysis result obtained by performing predetermined analysis on a reaction (attitude) of the user to the content at the time when the user experiences the content, an environment analysis result obtained by performing predetermined analysis on an external environment of the user at the time when the user experiences the content, a signal analysis result obtained by performing predetermined analysis on a video signal or voice signal of the content, and a language analysis result obtained by performing predetermined language analysis on language information described about the content; and determination means configured to, if the experience importance degree of the content calculated by the importance calculation means is high, determine the content as recommendation content to be recommended to the user. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100287580 | CONTENT SYNDICATION IN WEB-BASED MEDIA VIA AD TAGGING - Methods and systems for providing advertisements for inclusion in video content. In one embodiment, a video is formatted into a specific format for advertising purposes. The format describes a standard for advertisement placement opportunities within a video in which a client device may select advertisements for display during these opportunities. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100293566 | ANALYZING MEDIA CONTENT INTERACTION - A method includes receiving a transport stream, the transport stream including a content identifier associated with an instance of media content. The method further includes receiving a monitoring request that specifies at least one instance of media content. The method further includes determining if the specified instance of media content is currently being experienced by a user. If the specified instance of media content is currently being experienced by a user, then the method includes developing a set of interaction data by analyzing the user's interaction with the specified instance of media content in part by monitoring commands received from a control device, and providing the set of interaction data to another device. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100293567 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REMOTE CONTROL INTERACTIONS ANALYTICS - The present relates to a method and a system for analyzing interactions between a remote control and associated multimedia appliances. The method and system intercept transmissions representative of the interactions between the remote control and the associated multimedia appliances, and extract there from data related to the interactions. Then, the method and system process and interpret the data related to the interactions, and allocate a timestamp to some of the interactions. The method and system also generate a subscriber's profile based on the interpretation of the data related to the interactions, store the subscriber's profile, and transmit the subscriber's profile to a centralized analytic server. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100293568 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOGGING AND REPORTING TELEVISION VIEWING - A multimedia logging and reporting system and method involves first obtaining some viewing information about a multimedia presentation such as a television program. The viewing information may be a name of the program and the time it was being watched on the television or may include other information depending on the multimedia, the device used for viewing the multimedia as well as other factors. The viewing information is recorded and then used to generate a viewing report, an example being a display on a television screen that lists a particular user, the time and name of the programs watched on any given day. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100299690 | INFORMATION DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD, INFORMATION DELIVERY DEVICE, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - An information delivery system in which in a display device ( | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100299691 | System and Method for Personalization of Television Content Provided by a Set-Top Box Based on a User's Context and Uniquifiers - A method for personalization of television content comprises determining if input information respective of the television content matches one or more uniquifiers of a user of a set-top box (STB), wherein a uniquifier characterizes a user of a user node that is associated with the STB; updating a personalized content list if the match is determined to exist; and displaying the personalized content list on a television screen coupled to the STB. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100299692 | Media Content Search Results Ranked by Popularity - Media content search results ranked by popularity is described. In embodiment(s), a search request for television media content can be initiated by a viewer, and television media content that is relevant to the search request can be identified. The relevant television media content can then be ranked based on a popularity rating and the relevant television media content can be displayed in an ordered list that is ordered by popularity rankings. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100299693 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANAGING VIDEO STREAMS TO A SET TOP BOX - A particular method includes determining whether a recording at a set top box is in progress. When the recording is in progress, a program provided by a video stream transmitted to the set top box is recorded. After the recording is complete, a request is automatically sent to a content source to turn off the video stream. When the recording is not in progress, a warning is transmitted for display at a display device that the video stream will be turned off after a timeout period. After the timeout period has elapsed, the request is automatically sent to the content source to turn off the video stream. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100319013 | PROGRAM GUIDE SYSTEM WITH TARGETED ADVERTISING - An interactive television program guide system is provided in which targeted advertisements may be presented to a user and targeted actions taken in the program guide based on the user's interests. The program guide monitors the user's interactions with the program guide to determine the user's interests. Interactions that may be monitored include interactions that indicate the categories of programming that interest the user (e.g., movies, sports, children's programming, etc.), setting a reminder for a program, purchasing a program, requesting information on a program, browsing program listings for a particular time or channel, etc. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100319014 | Multimedia Mobile Personalization System - A multimedia mobile personalization system allows a user to record and play multimedia content on a set top box at a location other than his home using the user's preferences from his home DVR. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100325648 | CONTENTS WATCHING DEVICE AND CONTENTS RECOMMENDING METHOD - A conventional contents-watching device, etc. calculate users' tastes of contents only on the basis of watching frequencies, so that variety programs that the users are less interested in but that are broadcasted every week are apt to get a higher degree of users' tastes than a soccer game of the Japanese national team that the users are highly interested in but that is broadcasted only several times per year. In order to solve the problem set forth above, the present invention proposes a contents-watching device that calculates a taste value by normalizing a watching index indicative of the number of contents-watching times or the like for every contents-attribute with an emergent index indicative of the number of contents-watching chances, acquires an contents-attribute connected with contents to be a subject for watching recommendation, and has a function to calculate watching recommendation information by using the taste value of the contents-attribute. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100333125 | Subscriber Characterization System with Filters - A subscriber characterization system with filters in which the subscriber's selections are monitored, including monitoring of the time duration programming is watched, the volume at which the programming is listened to, and any available information regarding the type of programming, including category and sub-category of the programming. The raw subscriber selection data is then processed to eliminate data associated with irrelevant activities such as channel surfing, channel jumping, or extended periods of inactivity. The actual subscriber selection data is used to form program characteristics vectors. The programming characteristics vectors can be used in combination with the actual subscriber selection data to form a subscriber profile. Heuristic rules indicating the relationships between programming choices and demographics can be applied to generate additional probabilistic subscriber profiles regarding demographics and programming and product interest. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110016482 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR EVALUATING AN AUDIENCE IN A CONTENT-BASED NETWORK - Methods and apparatus for identifying, creating and distributing audience qualities and other information to an advertisement management system and/or an advertisement decision maker. In one embodiment, the methods and apparatus of the invention provide a technique for classifying data collected about an audience, and creating and grouping qualifiers to those classifications. The invention further includes methods and apparatus for managing an advertising inventory via a management system. The inventory is defined in one variant by predicted or known secondary content insertion opportunities, and a particular audience of the primary content associated with the insertion opportunity. Subscriber privacy and anonymity is also optionally maintained via e.g., hashing or encrypting data relating to the CPE and/or subscriber, thus ensuring that audience data is not traceable to a specific user account. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110016483 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING AND OPTIMIZING MEDIA PROGRAMMING IN PUBLIC SPACES - A system and corresponding methods for automating the execution, measurement, and optimization of in-store promotional digital media campaigns are provided. In one embodiment, a method in a computing system for deploying content to digital signage networks includes receiving from a user a marketing campaign goal and at least one optimization constraint suitable for generating a playlist. The method also includes generating a playlist designed to maximize a learning opportunity to achieve the marketing campaign goal. The method further includes provisioning the playlist to a point of presence on the digital signage network. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110029998 | IN-FLIGHT VIDEO ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM - An in-flight entertainment system includes a flight system server and seat video display units connected to the flight system server via a network. Each seat video display unit has a video display unit and a user input and is situated with a passenger seat on an airplane. The flight system server records interactions between passengers using the seat video display units and the flight system server during a flight. The flight system server displays advertisement chosen based on the recorded interactions on the video display units during the flight. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110035766 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLECTING TELEVISION VIEWING DATA AND TELEVISION INTERACTIVITY - A system for collecting viewing data (or viewing habits) and automatically measuring the size of an audience viewing or watching a broadcast at any particular time is provided. In the system, a remote control device may be adapted to collect and manage the collection of the viewing data on television audiences, including requests for the data from third parties. The data may be collected using a remote control device and then transmitted to a remote computer where it may be stored and accumulated, so that over time, the viewing habits of the User may be identified. The remote control device may also be used to allow a User to interact with the television to order a product, monetize advertising, participate in an auction and/or rate a television program. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110047565 | Data Transmitting and Receiving System - Disclosed is a data transmitting and receiving system including: a data transmitting device; and a data receiving device connected to the data transmitting device through an HDMI, wherein the data transmitting device includes: an extracting section to extract contents information of a video; and a transmitting section to transmit contents information to the data receiving device, and the data receiving device includes: a receiving section to receive contents information; an acquiring section to acquire keyword and/or category information from the contents information; a storing section to store the keyword and/or category information; a determining section to compare the keyword and/or category information stored in the storing section with EPG data and to determine whether or not there is a match; and a display section to display with highlight program information of the EPG data determined by the determining section to match with the keyword and/or category information. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110055860 | DATA INSERTION APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR USE WITH COMPRESSED AUDIO/VIDEO DATA - Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for performing data insertion in compressed audio/video data streams are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein to insert audience measurement data in a compressed media data stream comprises rearranging data in frames of the compressed media data stream to form contiguous sequences of skip bytes at respective locations in the frames of the compressed media data stream, the audience measurement data to be inserted in the compressed media data stream at the locations of the contiguous sequences of skip bytes, the contiguous sequences of skip bytes having respective lengths, and inserting different types of audience measurement data at the locations of the contiguous sequences of skip bytes in two different frames of the compressed media data stream based on the respective lengths of the contiguous sequences of skip bytes in the two different frames of the compressed media data stream. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110061069 | VIDEO ON DEMAND (VOD) RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON USER VIEWING HISTORY - A system collects a user's television (TV) program viewing activity and uses the collected TV program viewing activity to make video on demand (VOD) recommendations to other users via a VOD recommendation service. The system receives an indication that the user wishes to turn on a VOD recommendation service and deletes previously collected TV program viewing activity for the user based on the received indication. The system collects the user's recent TV program viewing activity, which occurs subsequent to the received indication and the deletion of the previously collected TV program viewing activity, and uses the user's collected recent TV program activity to make other VOD program recommendations to the user via the VOD recommendation service. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110067046 | FUZZY LOGIC BASED VIEWER IDENTIFICATION FOR TARGETED ASSET DELIVERY SYSTEM - A targeted advertising system uses a machine learning tool to select an asset for a current user of a user equipment device, for example, to select an ad for delivery to a current user of a digital set top box in a cable network. The machine learning tool first operates in a learning mode to receive user inputs and develop evidence that can characterize multiple users of the user equipment device audience. In a working mode, the machine learning tool processes current user inputs to match a current user to one of the identified users of that user equipment device audience. Fuzzy logic may be used to improve development of the user characterizations, as well as matching of the current user to those developed characterizations. In this manner, targeting of assets can be implemented not only based on characteristics of a household but based on a current user within that household. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110067047 | SYSTEM AND METHOD IN A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING USER-SELECTION OF OBJECTS IN A TELEVISION PROGRAM - A system and method in a distributed system (e.g., a distributed television system) for providing user-selection of objects in a television program, substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, as set forth more completely in the claims. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110078716 | Providing a Dedicated Channel Accessible to a Group of Users - A system includes a service provider network configured to communicate with a plurality of television-based user devices. The system also includes a database storing a status of user activity with respect to each of the plurality of television-based user devices and storing indicators of user-defined relationships between respective users of the plurality of television-based user devices. The system further includes a dedicated channel accessible to a group of users of the plurality of television-based user devices. The dedicated channel is arranged to enable interactive activity between members of the group. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110078717 | SYSTEM FOR NOTIFYING A COMMUNITY OF INTERESTED USERS ABOUT PROGRAMS OR SEGMENTS - Methods and systems that allow a user to notify other users in a community group about the availability of program segments in which the other users may have an interest are provided. In some embodiments, a user selection of a program segment of interest may be received using user equipment. A network may be searched for the location of the program segment, using the user equipment. A reference associated with the location of the program segment on the network may be created. The reference may be shared with a community of interested users, using the user equipment. The community of interested users may be notified about the program segment using the reference. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110078718 | TARGETING VIDEOS FOR ADVERTISEMENTS BY AUDIENCE OR CONTENT - A video hosting service stores and provides video content to a client via a network. Advertisers search for videos to target by entering search criteria into a user interface. Advertisers can search based on characteristics of the audience (viewers) of the videos, such as age range, gender, and interests of the viewers, and/or based on metadata associated with the videos. A set of videos that meet the search criteria is then retrieved. Advertisers can select individual ones of these videos or groups of these videos. The selected videos or groups of videos can be added to a media plan. The items from the media plan can be imported into an advertising campaign management system, wherein the advertiser's ads are associated with the selected videos. Subsequently, viewers who view the selected videos also view the advertiser's ads in connection with the videos. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110088051 | Method, Apparatus and System for Recommending Media Content - A method, an apparatus, and a system for recommending media content beyond existing single form of media content recommendation through selection of content from Electronic Program Guide (EPG) menus. The method includes: detecting media content recommendation trigger events; generating media content recommendation information according to a preset media content recommendation policy when a media content recommendation trigger event is detected; and sending the generated media content recommendation information to a user terminal. The method, apparatus and system for recommending media content are applicable to Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) networks. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110093878 | AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS - Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to determine source information for media content output by a media rendering device operable to output media content from a plurality of different sources are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein comprises detecting media content output by the a media rendering device, the media content having a media variable associated therewith, detecting a plurality of user commands, detecting a change in the media variable associated with the media content output by the media rendering device, selecting, based on a time limit, a user command from the plurality of detected user commands to use with the detected media variable change to determine source information, and providing the detected media variable change and the selected user command to a processor to determine a source of the media content output by the media rendering device. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110099568 | BROADCAST SYSTEM, BROADCAST CONTROL APPARATUS, AND BROADCAST METHOD - A broadcast apparatus transmits data of programs. A broadcast control apparatus measures the extent of viewing requests from users of terminals as scores for programs that are transmitted from the broadcast apparatus, and based on the scores that were measured, determines the service quality that is used in the broadcast of the programs. A communication access network apparatus, upon determination of the service quality of programs by the broadcast control apparatus, broadcasts data of programs that are received from the broadcast apparatus by communication channels having a transmission rate that corresponds to the service quality. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110119695 | METHOD OF DETECTING TV OFF EVENT ON A MOBILE TERMINAL EQUIPMENT - The invention is a method of detecting a TV off event happening on a mobile terminal equipment which is assumed to receive a broadcast service. A portable electronic device is connected to the mobile terminal equipment and, the mobile terminal equipment sends periodic commands to the portable electronic device. The mobile terminal equipment sends control messages to the portable electronic device. The control messages are related to the broadcast service. The method includes the steps of identifying a duration either according to receipt of two periodic commands of a first type or according to data contained in control messages, and identifying the TV off event if no control message has been received during that duration. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110126222 | PORTABLE MULTI-PURPOSE AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS, APPARATUS AND METHODS - Portable multi-purpose audience measurement systems, apparatus and methods are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein comprises collecting demographic data of a user, including a phone number for a mobile device, via a website associated with an information gathering entity, sending a message to the mobile device, the sent message, when responded to, resulting in downloading of a metering software module to the mobile device, receiving, from the mobile device and at a system associated with the information gathering entity, information indicative of events associated with use of the mobile device, and associating the received information with the demographic data. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110131596 | VIDEO STREAM MEASUREMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM - A video stream measurement method and system. The method includes receiving by a computing system, a video stream comprising plurality of timestamps located at specified intervals of the video stream. The computing system broadcasts the video stream for a user and decodes a first time stamp broadcasted during a first time period. The computing system monitors a user interaction function performed by the user and associated with the video stream. The computing system generates and transmits a report comprising a description associated with the user interaction function. The computing system receives an analysis associated with the report. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110138408 | TELEVISION INTERACTION INFORMATION AND RELATED ICONOGRAPHY - A method may include receiving identification information associated with each of one or more users. Interactions may be received from the one or more users relating to content displayed on a television device. Interaction information associated with the interactions may be captured, wherein the interaction information includes at least interaction type information, interaction status information, interaction origin information, and user identification information. The captured interaction information may be stored. A request to display at least some of the captured interaction information may be received. At least some of the captured information may be retrieved and displayed responsive to the request. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110145849 | VIEWER-PERSONALIZED BROADCAST AND DATA CHANNEL CONTENT DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD - Data is transmitted by or collected from individual receivers of broadcast content on a particularized basis. The broadcast content is transmitted without regard to selection of a particular content stream by any one or more receivers. The receiver data is analyzed, and may be analyzed in conjunction with other information such as details on broadcast content streams made during certain times, and selections of broadcast streams by particular receivers. System configuration changes and targeted content may then be transmitted by a bidirectional data exchange medium to the individualized receivers based upon the analysis. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145850 | DUAL CHANNEL AUDIENCE CUSTOMIZED BROADCAST DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD - The broadcast of content over a unidirectional broadcast channel is adjusted by analysis of data received from receivers of the content via a bidirectional data exchange channel. The broadcast may be altered in signal, signal strength, signal direction, encoding, and so forth. The receivers may communicate the data over any suitable network, such as the Internet. The data may include past, current and planned selections of content, as well as geographic and demographic information, when available. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145851 | CHANNEL CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PRE-JOINING CHANNELS USING THE SAME - A channel control apparatus for an Internet protocol television (IPTV) broadcasting service, which selects and pre-joins channels based on data regarding a channel zapping pattern of a user, thereby effectively reducing channel zapping time, and a method of pre-joining channels using the channel control apparatus are provided. The channel control apparatus comprises: a pattern information collection unit configured to collect data regarding a channel zapping pattern of a user for a cycle of a previously set period; a bandwidth management unit configured to set a pre-joining bandwidth, which is an allowable bandwidth for channels to be pre-joined, based on the collected data; a channel selection unit configured to select channels to be pre-joined according to channel preference of a user; and a channel pre-join unit configured to pre-join the channels selected by the channel selection unit within the set pre-joining bandwidth. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110154386 | ANNOTATED ADVERTISEMENT REFERRAL SYSTEM AND METHODS - A system and methods provide an annotated advertisement referral for presentation on an electronic device by employing the steps of receiving at an electronic processor an indication of a referral of an advertisement and the identity of a target to whom the advertisement is referred, and then directing the electronic signal representing a version of that advertisement to an electronic device associated with that target to whom the advertisement is referred. Preferably, that directed electronic signal includes an indication of the origin of the referral and a ranking of the advertisement given by the referring party. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110191795 | Highlights of Premium Multimedia Content - One embodiment may take the form of method for providing highlights of multimedia content that may be of interest to a user of a television system. The interest of a particular user of the television system may be obtained from a viewing history gathered about the user. From this information, one or more available multimedia programs may be identified as being of interest to the user. Highlights of such content, such as pay-per-view or other premium content, may be gathered and sent to or recorded on the receiver associated with the user such that the highlights may be presented to the user during use of the television system. The highlights may be viewed by the user through the television system and, if the user is interested in the content, may also purchase or otherwise access the highlighted programs. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110202947 | OPTIMIZED DELIVERY OF INTERACTIVITY EVENT ASSETS IN A MOBILE BROADCAST COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Systems, apparatus and methods provide an automatic capability for delivering interactivity event applications for execution on receiver devices within a broadcast network based upon interactivity event application data, information and sequence logic. Interactivity event content providers may provide to a broadcast network interactivity event application data, event metadata information and sequence logic a broadcast network. Receiver devices may be configured to receive only real-time interactivity event assets relevant to a currently monitored real-time channel, or channels adjacent to the currently monitored channel. Receiver devices may also be configured to avoid acquiring assets for interactive sequences not related to a currently viewed or adjacent channel. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110202948 | METHOD FOR DETECTING POTENTIALLY SUSPICIOUS OPERATION OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CORRESPONDING ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method may be for detecting potentially suspicious operation of an electronic device configured to operate in the course of activity sessions. The method may include within the device, a metering, from an initial instant of the number of activity sessions having a duration below a first threshold, and a comparison of this number with a second threshold. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110202949 | IDENTIFYING COMMERCIAL BREAKS IN BROADCAST MEDIA - An audio channel of a time-based media presentation provides a basis for synchronizing to the presentation across a variety of platforms independent of when and where the presentation is being viewed. By pre-processing the media into a series of non-unique hashes, and similarly processing an audio stream of the media captured at a client device, a comparison can be made that yields an accurate time offset within the presentation. The comparison may usefully be performed over a data network using a server that hosts data from the pre-processed media, and a variety of applications may be deployed on the client device based on the resulting synchronization. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110209169 | Method and System for Protecting Cable Televisions Subscriber-specific Information Allowing Limited Subset Access - A television program ratings method and system includes transferring information associated with households from a cable provider to a ratings provider such that the ratings provider has access to information associated with sampled households and lacks access to information associated with non-sampled households. To this end, identity information and usage information associated with the households are respectively anonymized and encrypted. Knowledge of the identities of the sampled households enables the anonymized identity information and the encrypted usage information for the sampled households to be respectively de-anonymized and decrypted. The ratings provider knows which households are sampled households. As such, the ratings provider de-anonymizes and decrypts the information associated with the sampled households and then uses the de-anonymized and decrypted information to determine television program ratings. The cable provider anonymizes and encrypts the information for all households as the cable provider does not know which households are sampled households. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110209170 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTEXTUALLY LINKING TELEVISION PROGRAM INFORMATION - The present invention provides systems and methods for providing television schedule information to a viewer, and for allowing the viewer to link, search, select and interact with information in a remote database, e.g., a database on the internet. The television schedule information can be displayed on a variety of viewer interfaces, such as televisions screens, computer monitors, PCTV screens and the like. The television schedule information may be stored on the viewer's computer, television, PCTV, or a remote server (e.g., a website), or the television schedule information may be downloaded from a remote database to the viewer's computer, television or PCTV. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110239243 | EXPOSURE BASED CUSTOMIZATION OF SURVEYS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for panel surveys. In one aspect, a method include accessing television history data for viewing devices associated with panelists and that describes, for each viewing device, television advertisements that were presented by use of the viewing device; a proper subset of panelists are selected based on the determinations of television advertisements that were presented and television advertisements that were not presented by use of the viewing device associated with the panelists, and for each of the selected panelists, a survey for the panelist is generated, the survey including one or more questions, each of the questions having been selected based on the television advertisements that were presented and television advertisements that were not presented by use of the viewing device associated with the panelist. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110239244 | DEMAND BROADCAST CHANNELS AND CHANNEL PROGRAMMING BASED ON USER VIEWING HISTORY, PROFILING, AND REQUESTS - A system and method for scheduling media for consumption via a demand broadcast channel based upon notifications received during user consumption of media. An embodiment of the present invention may employ notifications generated when users select media for consumption, to calculate one or more statistics. The statistics may be calculated and used by a media provider to schedule media into a demand broadcast channel in which the frequency of repetition or time of availability of the media is set according to a ranking of the relative frequency of requests for the media. The statistics may also be shared with a third party, to enable a third party media provider to arrange the scheduling of media availability according to the relative frequency of requests for the media. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110265111 | Broadcast Remote Control - Identifying user behaviors via remote control signal broadcasts may be provided. A content element such as a video may be displayed on a display device. During display of the content, a control signal may be received and deciphered. The deciphered control signal may be used to determine whether the content is being consumed by a user, and this determination may be logged and/or reported to the content provider. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110283307 | BROADCAST TRANSMITTER, A BROADCAST TRANSMITTING METHOD AND A BROADCAST RECEIVING METHOD - In one embodiment, a broadcast transmitter includes: a viewer information memory configured to store viewer information regarding a viewer who signs up for a subscription; a generator configured to generate individual information regarding a conditional access of a content including a first expiration time indicating an expiration time of the individual information and a second expiration time set independently of the first expiration time for each the viewer who signs up for the subscription based on the viewer information; and a transmitter configured to transmit a broadcast signal including the generated individual information. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110283308 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING RELAY CHANNEL, AND EDGE NODE - The invention relates to a method and system for implementing a relay channel, and an edge node, in which a media location service system monitors the number of orders of all nodes in an IPTV system, and, when monitoring that the number of orders of the central node of the IPTV system is more than a predetermined first threshold, searches edge nodes with the number of orders less than a predetermined second threshold, and sends a relay channel establishing request message to one of the edge nodes; the edge node which receives the message sends an RTSP link establishing request message to the central node, reserves a media distribute unit (MDU) resource for the link, and notifies the central node of the IP address of the reserved MDU resource; and the edge node enables the MDU resource, sends a media stream requesting message to the central node, and stores data of the relay channel. The invention can better balance the load of each node in the network, thereby allocating and using the system resource more properly. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110289524 | System and Method for Set Top Viewing Data - In a video delivery context, collection and analysis of viewing data can provide insight into viewer interaction with video and the Internet. The viewing data can be transmitted in a controlled manner to a data repository. The system can selectively target specific viewers/households to obtain viewing data, which can be combined with demographics, anonymized, and encrypted. Embodiments enable precision selection of media opportunities, by determining detailed characteristics associated with broadcasts including movement of audiences and specific viewer behavior, such as visits to websites on the Internet. The effective yield of broadcasts, including promotional spots and advertisements, can be determined and predicted based on concrete data at a level of detail down to individual viewers. Accordingly, embodiments enable improvement of the effectiveness and return on investment for programming, promotional spots, and advertisements. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110289525 | Managing Lifecycles of Television Gadgets and Applications - The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method that includes identifying metadata related to television programming. The method further includes sending search requests that include the identified metadata to a search system for selecting at least one portable program module. The method further includes in response to a first one of the search requests, receiving first search results from the search system that identify the selected portable program module and outputting a representation of the selected portable program module to a display device for presentation concurrently with the television programming. The method further includes in response to a second one of the search requests, receiving second search results from the search system that no longer identify the selected portable program module and ceasing the output of the representation of the selected portable program module. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110289526 | NETWORK PLAYBACK OF VIDEO PROGRAMMING AFTER CUSTOMER PREMISES SERVICE INTERRUPTION - An exemplary method includes monitoring a condition relating to power at a customer premises to automatically detect a power outage at the customer premises, the power outage causing an interruption to a video service provided through a network to a video device within the customer premises, sending a notice of the interruption through the network to a node having a video recorder in the network, recording, at the video recorder in the network, a video program that was being accessed by the video device within the customer premises before the interruption, at least from a point in the video program substantially corresponding to a point when the interruption occurred, and transmitting at least a portion of the recorded video program starting from the point substantially corresponding to the identified point when the interruption occurred, from the video recorder through the network to the video device within the customer premises. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110307914 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR STORING PROGRAM EVENTS IN AN ENHANCED HISTORY BUFFER - Enhanced history buffer systems and methods are operable to temporarily store program content for program events. An exemplary embodiment receives program content corresponding to each of the plurality of program events, generates a unique discrete program content file in the enhanced history buffer for each of the plurality of program events, and stores the received program content for each of the plurality of program events in the associated one of the discrete program content files. Each discrete program content file begins at a known starting location in the enhanced history buffer and ends at a known ending location in the enhanced history buffer. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110307915 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRE-TUNING A SECOND TUNER IN ANTICIPATION OF A CHANNEL SURFING ACTIVITY - Two-tuner media device systems and methods are operable to pre-tune a second tuner in anticipation of a channel surfing activity. An exemplary embodiment receives a first content stream associated with a currently presented channel at a first tuner, determines an anticipated channel based upon the currently presented channel and a historical channel surfing pattern, receives a second content stream associated with the anticipated channel at a second tuner, detects an initiation of a channel surfing activity, and presents at least a video portion of the second content stream associated with the anticipated channel in response to detecting the initiation of the channel surfing activity. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110307916 | BACKWARDS-COMPATIBLE FREQUENCY TRANSLATION MODULE FOR SATELLITE VIDEO DELIVERY - A frequency translation module for delivering satellite signals to Integrated Receiver Decoders (IRDs). The module comprises at least one input for receiving polarized satellite signals, wherein at least one input is coupled to at least one low noise block amplifier (LNB), at least one legacy output, the legacy output coupled to the input through a multiswitch, wherein each legacy output selects a polarization of a satellite signal based on a Legacy IRD command directly to the multiswitch, and at least one combined output, the combined output coupled to the multiswitch through an interface, wherein at least one new IRD selectively commands the frequency translation module such that each new IRD receives a portion of a satellite signal based on commands received from each IRD. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110314485 | Systems and Methods for Automated Extraction of Closed Captions in Real Time or Near Real-Time and Tagging of Streaming Data for Advertisements - System and methods for finding and accessing desired audio content from audio content sources, including means and methods for extracting captions from a broadcast; aggregating the captions in a database; indexing the database content; searching the captions for a mention of at least one target; analyzing the results for desired content; indexing into the database to extract the desired content; thereby providing a method for quickly finding and accessing desired audio and video content from a large number of sources | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110314486 | AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DIGITAL TELEVISION - A television audience measurement system measures viewing of a television program viewed on digital television located in a statistically selected site by (i) retrieving an audience measurement data packet from a television set in order to identify the television program, (ii) detecting an audio code embedded in the television program in order to identify the television program, (iii) extracting an audio signature from the television program in order to identify the television program, (iv) identifying the television program through use of a software agent, and (v) selecting at least one of the retrieving means, the detecting means, the extracting means, and the software agent in order to identify the television program. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110321077 | VIEWING IMPRESSION REPORT COLLECTION, STORAGE, AND REPORTBACK OF INSERTED CONTENT WITH DVR PLAYBACK - A method and system that computes viewing statistics for a digital video content stream received at a set-top box. The digital video content stream includes a first segment of video content, a second segment of video content, a third segment of video content, a first timing mark that indicates a transition from the first segment to the second segment, and a second timing mark that indicates a transition from the second segment to the third segment. The method initiates a transmission of the digital video content stream at the set-top box, monitors the transmission of the digital video content stream relative to the first timing mark and the second timing mark, and computes view data for the second segment based on the monitoring of the transmission. The method stores the view data at the set-top box. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110321078 | FORECASTING AND CABLE TELEVISION NETWORK - PLANNING OF NARROWCAST SERVICES - A method and a non-transitory computer readable medium for evaluating a configuration change of a cable television network, the method may include: receiving, a model of a cable television network, the cable television network comprises multiple service groups, multiple transmitters and at least one session management unit; wherein each service group comprises multiple user devices; receiving or generating, viewers' activity information about viewing patterns of viewers that belong to the multiple service groups; receiving a request to perform a requested change in a current configuration of the cable television network; simulating, by a simulator, based on the model, the viewers' activity information and the requested change, a provision of services to the multiple service groups given the requested change to provide simulation results that represent an effect of the requested change, prior to a deployment of the change in the cable television network. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20120005702 | Improved Television and Video System - An improved television and video system uses a system device which is connected to a multiplicity of television and video devices. The system device is configured to monitor a TV or video source regularly watched by a viewer and provides TV programs or videos to be in accordance with a viewer's interest. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120011529 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO DETERMINE VIEWERSHIP - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, network device having a controller programmed to track a number of times that a particular service channel is distributed to a subscriber device from at least a network device selected from the group of a unicast stream server, a multicast stream router, or a digital subscriber line access multiplexer (DSLAM) which is used in an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) network when the subscriber device is initially tuned to the particular service channel and to obtain real time viewership information by polling the network device in the IPTV network to determine how many subscriber devices are tuned to each service channel in the IPTV network. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011530 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND SOFTWARE APPLICATION FOR TARGETED ADVERTISING VIA BEHAVIORAL MODEL CLUSTERING, AND PREFERENCE PROGRAMMING BASED ON BEHAVIORAL MODEL CLUSTERS - The method and system for TV user profile data prediction and modeling allows accurate and narrowly focused behavioral clustering. A client-side system classifies television consumers into representative user profiles. The profiles target individual user advertising and program preference category groups. A contextual behavioral profiling system determines the user's monitor behavior and content preferences, and the system may be continually updated with user information. A behavioral model database is queried by various system modules. The programming, including targeted advertising for television and interactive television is based on the profile data prediction, modeling and preference determination. The system is enabled to present a complete program sequence to the viewer based on the preference determination and stored programming. The latter is referred to as automatic program sequence (virtual channel) creation and the virtual channel can be presented as a separate channel in an electronic programming guide (EPG). | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011531 | CONTROLLER FOR PROVIDING USER-TAILORED ENTERTAINMENT EXPERIENCE AT ENTERTAINMENT DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF - A controller of an entertainment device includes a network connection for coupling the controller to a user-profile server via a network. The controller configured for determining a user identifier corresponding to a user associated with the entertainment device; automatically retrieving a user profile corresponding to the user identifier from the user-profile server, the user profile including an electronic bookmark pertaining to content that was not finished by the user at a different entertainment device; and controlling the entertainment device to allow the user to initiate playing the content at the entertainment device, and to play the content automatically starting from a position in the content corresponding to a position indicated by the electronic bookmark. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120023517 | Method and System for Measuring an Internet Protocol Television Channel Zapping Delay - A method for measuring an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) channel zapping delay to be implemented using a system that includes a scheduling unit, a remote controller, a stream providing unit, a set-top box, and a packet analyzing unit, said method comprising: a) configuring the scheduling unit to control the remote controller to transmit a channel change signal to the set-top box, whereby the set-top box initiates communication of a plurality of packets with the stream providing unit; b) configuring the packet analyzing unit to capture the packets communicated between the set-top box and the stream providing unit; and c) configuring the packet analyzing unit to compute an IPTV channel zapping delay corresponding to the channel change signal on the basis of the packets captured in step b). A system for measuring an IPTV channel zapping delay is also disclosed. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120030697 | DISPLAY CONTROL APARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - In the conventional program recommend method, there is a problem that the user misses to view a program being wanted to view or a problem that the information is redundant to the user. A display control apparatus of the present invention includes a preference information acquisition unit which acquires a preference information of a viewer from the broadcast reception apparatus, a program information acquisition unit which acquires the program information of a preference target program which suits the preference information, from the server, a reception apparatus state detection unit which detects an instruction of a power supply off to the broadcast reception apparatus, a program information display unit which displays at least a part of the program information, and a display control unit which controls a start of a display of the program information, on the basis of the instruction of the power supply off. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120066706 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING MEASUREMENT OF VIEWING PATTERNS BY SET TUNERS AND ADVERTISEMENT OPTIMIZATION - A system and method for improving measurement of viewing patterns by set tuners and advertisement optimization are described. The present disclosure presents an improvement to existing set tuners that uses an uploaded application code to expand the reporting capabilities of pre-existing set tuners. The present disclosure also presents a method for increased optimization of advertising by correcting inefficiencies of existing set tuners and, optionally, further analyzing psychographics or demographics in conjunction with improved, non-invasive reporting mechanisms. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120066707 | SECURING PROPERTY - Methods, systems, and apparatuses for securing property are presented. Video content viewed by a user may be detected, and the user may be automatically prompted to change settings on a security system based on the detecting. A comparison of the current time with the duration of the video content may serve as the basis for such prompting. Additionally, a premise security system may be placed in a learning mode. Changes in position of a security sensor may be detected and used to set a permitted range of motion for the sensor. Further, a plurality of security sensor profiles may be stored, and each profile may identify a different predefined permitted range of motion of a sensor. The addition of a new sensor to a premise may be detected, and a user may be prompted, on a display, to identify a profile to be used for the new sensor. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120072941 | Automatic "Spoiler" Prevention - Control of output of programme content from an apparatus including a receiver for receiving programme content and an output includes storing one or more dependencies and determining whether a programme to be output by the apparatus has any dependencies associated with it. The dependencies may be indicative of whether the content of a given programme is dependent upon the content of one or more other programmes. If the programme to be output by the apparatus has any dependencies associated with it, the output of the programme content by the apparatus may impaired based on the dependencies. A corresponding apparatus and computer programme are also provided. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120072942 | BROADCAST-CONTENTS MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR USE IN A BROADCAST-CONTENTS MANAGEMENT APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a broadcast-contents management apparatus includes a plurality of network interface modules, a plurality of storage modules and a controller. The plurality of network interface modules connect with an information processing apparatus including functions relating to process on contents data. The plurality of storage modules store the contents data sent from the information processing apparatus. The controller monitors or controls the plurality of network interface modules and the plurality of storage modules. The controller includes a selector. The selector selects a combination of a network interface module and a storage module to use, based on use statuses of the plurality of network interface modules and the plurality of storage modules or based on a preset condition, when the controller performs process on the contents data. The selector performs the process on contents data by the selected combination. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120079516 | METHOD OF DETERMINING PROFILES FOR WIDGET CHANNEL VIEWERS - In a digital content entertainment system, attributes vectors storing values for attributes of each of a plurality of widgets installed in the digital content entertainment system are obtained. A profiler component automatically creates at least one profile of a viewer of the digital content entertainment system by performing a spectral clustering process on the attributes vectors. The digital content entertainment system proactively obtains and presents digital content of interest to the viewer on a display of the digital content entertainment system based on the automatically generated viewer profile. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120079517 | VIEWERSHIP-BASED SERVICES - A method, system, and computer program product containing instructions to provide viewership-based services. In response to a request to participate in a service transaction by a user of a service, a viewership status of the user is determined with respect to an episode of a series of episodes. The service transaction is modified to accommodate the viewership status of the user. Modifying the service transaction may include providing content related to a first episode in the series if the viewership status indicates the user has viewed the first episode and withholding content related to a second episode in the series if the viewership status indicates that the user has not viewed the second episode. Modifying the service transaction may include writing a post by the user to a collection of posts that is accessible only by users having a given viewership status. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120079518 | Validation of TV viewership utlizing methods, systems and computer control logic - A method, system and computer control logic to provide personalization of a viewer's usage of an Internet TV platform. The method includes tracking a viewer's interactive usage pattern of the TV platform; generating viewer usage data based on the tracking; analyzing the viewer usage data on a substantially real-time basis; and personalizing the viewer's usage of the TV platform on a based on an analysis the viewer usage data. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120079519 | ESTIMATING REACH AND FREQUENCY OF ADVERTISEMENTS - Estimating the reach and device frequency of a proposed advertising campaign based on the probability that advertising content delivery devices (e.g., a television set top box, radio) were used to deliver advertising content (e.g. television ad, radio ad) during specific time periods on specific delivery device channels. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120079520 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR BANDWIDTH CONSERVATION - Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for conserving bandwidth. A user's bandwidth consumption is monitored and compared to a threshold value. When the user's bandwidth consumption equals or exceeds the threshold value, then behavior is incentivized that reduces the user's bandwidth consumption. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120084801 | System and Method for Providing Real Time Television Viewing Information and Popularity to Viewers - A method providing real-time popularity information regarding TV programs, performed during a short period of time at a server with one or more processors and memory. The server receives current TV viewing information from a plurality of distinct households. The current TV viewing information for a household identifies one or more TV programs that are now showing at the household. The server aggregates the current TV viewing information, thereby identifying one or more currently popular TV programs. The currently popular TV programs have more household viewers than less popular TV programs. The server receives a request from a household seeking identification of currently popular TV programs. The server selects one or more of the currently popular TV programs identified during the aggregation, and sends information to the household. The information identifies the selected one or more currently popular TV programs. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120084802 | RECEPTION APPARATUS, RECEPTION METHOD, TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, TRANSMISSION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND BROADCASTING SYSTEM - A reception apparatus for receiving transmitted AV (Audio/Video) content includes: an extraction section configured to extract trigger information associated with control of an application program transmitted with the AV content to be executed in cooperation with the AV content; and a control section configured to control processing associated with the application program in accordance with a command indicated by the extracted trigger information, wherein the application program in an active status started up in accordance with the command indicated by the extracted trigger information executes at least one of processing of generating view status information indicative of a user view status and processing of uploading the view status information to a predetermined server. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120089996 | CATEGORIZATION OF A MOBILE USER PROFILE BASED ON BROWSE AND VIEWING BEHAVIOR - A system for categorization of a mobile user profile based on a browse and viewing behavior of a user includes (a) using data of a wireless provider to ascertain a plurality of web browser activities as performed on a mobile communication facility of the user; (b) storing the plurality of mobile web browser activities relating to the user; (c) accessing from the wireless provider a viewing history of television content of the user, wherein the wireless provider has provided the television content; (d) analyzing the plurality of mobile web browser activities and the viewing history of television content to determine a relationship thereamongst; (e) creating a category of user profile based at least in part on the analysis; (f) associating the category of user profile with the user; and (g) transmitting content corresponding to the category of user profile to the mobile communication facility for display thereon. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120096482 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING MEDIA CONTENT USING TEMPORAL SIGNAL CHARACTERISTICS - Methods and apparatus to identify media content using temporal signal characteristics are disclosed. An example method to identify media content includes generating a first signature based on a media content signal, the first signature comprising a plurality of first normalized features, each normalized feature corresponding to a signal peak and located at a temporal location of the signal peak in the audio signal, correlating the first signature to a reference signature comprising second normalized features to obtain an index, and determining that the first signature represents the same media content as the reference signature when the index is greater than a threshold. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120102513 | METHOD FOR MEASURING AUDIENCE DATA, CORRESPONDING TOKEN AND TERMINAL - The invention relates to a method for measuring audience data. The data is broadcast and received by at least one terminal. The data is relative to at least one channel included within the broadcast data. According to the invention, the terminal determines at least one piece of configuration data relating to at least one channel consumed by a terminal user, the at least one piece of configuration data comprising a first time difference between two time references, a first time reference relating to an exit from a channel and a second time reference relating to an access to the channel. The invention relates also to corresponding terminal and token. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120102514 | INTERNET-BASED SUBMISSION OF CABLE NETWORK CONTENT - A cable network content delivery system providing advertising information via a cable network and an advertising content interface are described. An advertiser submits advertising content over an internet which is then adapted for a cable network. A data gateway stores the advertising information. The system processes a user command received via the cable network, including an advertising information search command, and provides advertising information retrieved via the cable network. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120102515 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MONITOR AUDIO/VISUAL CONTENT FROM VARIOUS SOURCES - Methods and apparatus to monitor audio/visual content from various sources are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein comprises determining first information based on a video signal corresponding to monitored media content, determining second information based on an audio signal corresponding to the monitored media content, and identifying a selected one of a plurality of media content sources based on a decision tree comprising a plurality of decision nodes, a first decision node of the decision tree corresponding to a first classification decision resulting from processing at least one of the first information or second information, and a second decision node of the decision tree corresponding to a second classification decision resulting from processing at least one of the first information or second information, the second decision node of the decision tree being selected for evaluation based on an outcome of evaluating the first decision node of the decision tree. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120102516 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - Supplementary data associated with a broadcast transmission ( | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120110608 | DIGITAL CONTENT AND RESPONSE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Systems and methods are provided for allowing responses to offers displayed with digital content. The responses may be provided on a receiver system via a conventional feedback through the same distribution channel through which the content and offer were provided, or through an alternative channel, with data being transmitted from an alternative channel device to a transacting entity. For time-shifted playback, content is identified and time-adapted offers may be provided, taking into account factors such as the content, the time of play back, the date of play back, and so forth. The alternate response channel may be more suitable for time-adapted offer responses then for contemporaneously transmitted offers. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120110609 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PEER-TO-PEER STREAMING OF LAYERED CONTENT - A method and apparatus are described including receiving buffer maps of neighbor peers, measuring serving rates from the neighbor peers, measuring serving rates to the neighbor peers, requesting a unit of data from one of the neighbor peers responsive to information in the buffer maps of the neighbor peers at a rate responsive to the serving rate from the one of the neighbor peers, receiving incoming requests for units of data, sorting the incoming requests into a plurality of queues, selecting one of the incoming requests to serve responsive to the serving rates to the neighbor peers corresponding to the incoming request, updating the queues and selecting a new neighbor peer. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120124605 | METHOD FOR MONITORING AN AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT RELATING TO DATA BROADCAST TO A TERMINAL, AND CORRESPONDING TERMINAL TOKEN AND SYSTEM - The invention relates to a method for monitoring an audience measurement relating to data. The data is broadcast, through a broadcast channel, from a broadcast device and to be received by at least one terminal. According to the invention, the method comprises steps in which the broadcast device broadcasts, through the broadcast channel, at least one piece of information relating to a request for measuring an audience of at least one content of the data, said audience report request; and at least one terminal sends back, through a return channel, to an audience report collecting device, as a response to the audience report request, an audience report relating to the at least one content of the broadcast data processed by the at least one terminal, said audience report response. The invention relates also to corresponding terminal and system comprising the broadcast device and the terminal, and a corresponding token likely to cooperate with a terminal. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120137318 | Tracking User Interaction from a Receiving Device - Measuring and tracking user interaction with a television receiver, such as a set top box or cable box. The television receiver may create and display a matrix code that includes temporal information, user identification information, geographic information, and/or a user selection. The matrix code may be captured by a matrix reading device and transmitted to a monitoring entity. Optionally, the matrix reading device may decode the matrix code and transmit associated data to the monitoring entity. The monitoring entity may use the code or data to track and distinguish between user interactions at different points in time. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120144415 | MEDIA QUALITY MONITORING - A content processing device is configured to receive a media stream via a network. The media stream may be analyzed to detect whether an anomaly is present in the media stream indicative of a potential quality defect in playback of the media stream. Data relating to a detected anomaly may be provided to a destination via the network. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120144416 | METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEMS FOR PRESENTING TELEVISION PROGRAMMING AND RELATED INFORMATION - Methods and apparatus for providing advertising information on a second user viewing device relating to a media program viewed on a first user viewing device. Upon determining that the media program is being presented via the first user viewing device, an ad programming signal is transmitted to the second user viewing device so as to present on the second user viewing device at least one first advertisement relating to content of the media program. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120151512 | AUTO RECONCILIATION - A set-top box includes a baseline record with information regarding the expected environment of the set-top box. The baseline record may be encrypted, and may include locational information. The set-top box compares the expected environment to an actual environment of the set-top box and attempts auto-reconciliation if the comparison indicates a discrepancy. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120151513 | Inferring demographic compositions of television audiences - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for inferring a demographic composition of a television audience of a television program. In one aspect, a method extrapolates television audience demographics from rated programs to unrated programs by attributing demographics of rated programs to unrated programs when the rated and unrated program are related by demographically rated channel tunes. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120159528 | Systems and Methods for Measuring Audience Participation Over a Distribution Network - Embodiments of the invention include systems and methods for measuring audience participation over a distribution network. An example method may include delivering media content to a viewer's CPE over a distribution network and delivering an audience measurement application associated with the media content over the distribution network. The audience measurement application can be configured for execution by the viewer's CPE, and can be programmed to generate at least one inquiry for display to the viewer in association with viewing the media content and to request at least one response by the viewer to be entered via the viewer's CPE. The method may further include receiving response information associated with the response to the inquiry from the viewer's CPE over the distribution network, and determining the viewer's participation level associated with the media content based at least in part on the response information received from the viewer's CPE. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120159529 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO ENFORCE A POWER OFF STATE OF AN AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT DEVICE DURING SHIPPING - Methods and apparatus to enforce a power off state of an audience measurement device during shipping of the device are disclosed herein. An example portable audience measurement device includes a housing, a media detector in the housing to collect media exposure data, and a packaging sensor to receive an audio signal. A packaging detector generates a frequency spectrum of the detected audio signal, determines an energy of a first frequency associated with the generated frequency spectrum, determines an energy of a second frequency higher than the first frequency and associated with the generated frequency spectrum, and compares the difference between the energy of the first frequency and the second frequency to a muffling threshold to determine whether the device is located within a package. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120167125 | VIDEO CONTENT NAVIGATION WITH REVENUE MAXIMIZATION - A method for maximizing revenue in a video-on-demand (VOD) system operated by a service provider is disclosed. For a plurality of VOD content items, an expected revenue value to the service provider for each content item is calculated, based on an estimated value of revenue for the content item, weighted by an estimated probability that a subscriber will select the content item for viewing. The one or more highest ranked content items of the plurality of VOD content items is selected, rank being determined such that content items having higher expected revenue values are ranked higher than content items having lower expected revenue values. Identifying information about the one or more highest ranked content items is delivered to a set-top device associated with the subscriber, for presentation to the subscriber on a menu from which the one or more highest ranked content items can be selected for viewing. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120167126 | SLAVE DISPLAY DEVICE, SET-TOP BOX, AND DIGITAL CONTENTS CONTROL SYSTEM - A digital contents control system includes: a set-top box which generates a video for a master display device and a video for a slave display device with a received broadcasting signal and sends the generated videos to the master display device and the slave display device, respectively; the master display device for receiving the video generated for the master display device from the set-top box and displaying the received video; and the slave display device for receiving the video generated for the slave display device from the set-top box, displaying the received video and providing a control video area for control of the master display device or the slave display device to a separate display area, wherein, when a control instruction is input through the control video area provided in the slave display device, the input control instruction is sent to the set-top box and the set-top box controls the video for the master display device or the slave display device according to the input control instruction. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120167127 | Video Output Device and Video Output Method - According to one embodiment, a video output device includes a receiver, a program guide obtaining module, an output signal processor, a user identification module, a view history storage module, and a program advice module. The receiver receives a broadcast signal of a program. The program guide obtaining module obtains program guide data. The output signal processor outputs a video signal of the broadcast signal to an output module. The user identification module identifies a user who is viewing the program. The view history storage module stores the program as view history in association with the user. The program advice module searches the program guide data for a recommended program similar to programs viewed by the user in the past using a keyword based on the view history and creates a program advice message suggesting the recommended program. The output signal processor outputs the program advice message to the output module. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120174144 | System and Method for Capturing Parameters and Register of Events in Portable Devices With Digital Television Receiver, Method for Remote Setting the Service of Parameter Capture and Events Register in Portable Devices, Respective Server and Portable Device - The present invention relates to a system and method for capturing and recording parameters of events on portable devices with digital television receiver, a method for remote configuration of service parameters for capturing and recording events on portable devices, as well as portable device and server. More specifically, a system and method for capturing audience data, the method for remote configuration of audience data capture service, especially adapted for digital TV services on portable devices such as mobile phones, smartphones, personal digital assistants PDA, among others. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120174145 | INTERACTIVE USER-PREDICTION OF CONTENT - A method including providing at least one of a television service or an Internet access service to a customer; generating predictive options pertaining to content delivered to the customer, wherein the predictive options correspond to possible future events that could occur with respect to the content; receiving a customer selection of one of the predictive options; determining whether the customer-selected predictive option matches an outcome with respect to the content; and assigning a score to the customer based on whether the selected predictive option successfully or unsuccessfully predicted the outcome. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120180080 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NETWORK BANDWIDTH CONSERVATION - Methods and apparatus for conserving bandwidth within a network based on two or more different service levels. In an exemplary embodiment, programming that is simulcast on two or more program channels is mapped to one physical channel during periods when the programming is scheduled at only one service level (e.g., standard definition), thereby conserving bandwidth on the network that would otherwise be consumed by the simultaneous broadcast on the two or more channels. When the programming service level becomes heterogeneous across the channels (e.g., SD and HD simulcast), physical channel(s) supporting the HD content are provided within a local service area only “on-demand” using, for example, a switched digital channel allocation. Accordingly, no HD broadcast occurs within a given area until at least one user requests it, thereby further conserving network bandwidth. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120180081 | Image Recognition of Content - Techniques are described to employ image recognition techniques to content. In an implementation, one or more images are identified in content using a signature derived from the one or more images. Metadata associated with the content is then supplemented based on the identified one or more images. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120192215 | Publication of User-Generated Ticker - Disclosed are various automated methods and apparatus for scheduling and distributing user-generated content as part of or during a television program that is being distributed as part of a linear programming line-up of a television network. Users upload user-generated content through, for example, a mobile application on smart phone, a web site, or through an online service such as a social media network, and are given the opportunity to schedule transmission of uploaded content during transmission of television network linear programming by purchasing a time slot or bidding on a time slot through an auction process using real or virtual currency, including points, credits or other form of virtual currency, or being awarded or given a time slot. An automated process obtains available time slots and schedules user generated content for transmission by the network as part of previously scheduled, linear programming. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120192216 | QOE ENSURING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A Quality of Experience (QoE) ensuring method is disclosed. The method includes obtaining a QoE parameter of a media data stream, judging whether QoE of the media data stream will deteriorate according to the QoE parameter of the media data stream, and adjusting QoS of the media data stream to ensure the QoE if a judgment result shows that the QoE of the media data stream will deteriorate. By using the QoE ensuring method provided herein, whether the QoE will deteriorate can be judged beforehand, and the QoS is adjusted before the QoE deteriorates. In this way, preventive measures may be taken against possible deterioration of the QoE and the user's QoE is ensured. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120192217 | DIGITAL RECEIVER AND METHOD OF PROVIDING REAL-TIME RATING THEREOF - A digital receiver and a method of providing rating information in the digital receiver are disclosed, in which rating information on channels available in the digital receiver is provided to a user to provide the user convenience in selecting a channel. The method of providing rating information in a digital receiver comprises the steps of transmitting a first signal to a server in a rating notification mode, the first signal including setting information; receiving a second signal from the server, the second signal including setting details on rating information collection; transmitting a third signal to the server if the digital receiver is set as a rating information collecting target based on the second signal, the third signal including channel watching information of the digital receiver; and receiving a fourth signal from the server, the fourth signal including rating information. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120198488 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING REMOTE CONTROL SERVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS THEREOF - A system for servicing a display device is performed remotely through a network server. The server establishes a connection with the display device, transmits a first signal through the connection to instruct the display device to automatically perform a predetermined function, receives a captured image derived from a screen of the display device after performance of the predetermined function, and transmits a second signal through the connection to control at least one feature of the display device. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120198489 | DETECTING FRAUD USING SET-TOP BOX INTERACTION BEHAVIOR - A processor can receive user interaction data indicative of interactions between a user and a set-top box device. The processor can compare a behavior pattern in the received user interaction data and a behavior pattern in previously stored data contained within a user profile for a human. The processor can generate a score indicative of a likelihood that the behavior pattern in the received data matches the behavior pattern in the previously stored data. Responsive to the generated score being below a threshold, the processor can generate an indication of a possible fraudulent action due to the user having a high likelihood of not being the human. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120222059 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION USING A SUPPLEMENTARY DEVICE - A method and system for providing access to information via a supplementary device is provided. User access to primary information via a primary device is monitored. Key information related to the primary content is obtained by extracting and analyzing metadata sources for the primary information. Then, supplementary information related to the primary information is obtained based on the key information. The supplementary information is provided for user access via the supplementary device. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120222060 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING MEDIA CONTENT - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a set top box having a controller to present media content, and provide access to related media content based upon access information, where the related media content is determined based upon monitoring of the media content, where the related media content is retrieved based on a query of a plurality of sources over the internet for ancillary information, and where the access information is associated with each of the plurality of sources and the ancillary information is at least one among a video blog, a pod cast or a website. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120227064 | Predictive Content Placement on a Managed Services Systems - A distributed stochastic learning agent analyzes viewing and/or interactive service behavior patterns of users of a managed services system. The agent may operate on embedded and/or distributed devices such as set-top boxes, portable video devices, and interactive consumer electronic devices. Content may be provided with services such as video and/or interactive applications at a future time with maximum likelihood that a subscriber will be viewing a video or utilizing an interactive service at that future time. For example, user impressions can be maximized for content such as advertisements, and content may be scheduled in real-time to maximize viewership from across all video and/or interactive services. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20120227065 | MOVIE ADVERTISING PLACEMENT OPTIMIZATION BASED ON BEHAVIOR AND CONTENT ANALYSIS - An ad is placed in a movie, by analyzing inherent characteristics of the movie, analyzing viewed characteristics of the movie, analyzing viewer characteristics of a viewer of the movie, obtaining advertiser preferences for placement of the ad in the movie, determining costs of placing the ad in the movie based on the inherent characteristics of the movie, the viewed characteristics of the movie, the viewer characteristics and the advertiser preferences, and placing the ad in the movie in accordance with the inherent characteristics of the movie, the viewed characteristics of the movie, the viewer characteristics, the advertiser preferences and the determined costs. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20120240142 | Content Provision - A system is disclosed for providing a user with access to augmented media content. A set-top-box is provided to pass live broadcast content to a user device. A software module is arranged to receive augmentation content that is associated with the live TV, and the software module can augment the live TV by, for example, controlling the placement of graphics over or alongside video programs. A back-channel is provided from the user device to content providers and a server so that a user can interact with the augmentation content. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120240143 | Method and system for verifiable two-way communication and interaction with audiences using multiple media formats - A system and method for verifiable two-way communication and interaction with audiences using Visual Cues and images to enable an audience, irrespective of size, to interact with multiple media formats, using smart devices such as smartphones and smart cameras. Allows interactions with viewers in real-time that will provide richer data that can be used to measure an audience more reliably. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120240144 | CONTENT PROVISION - An apparatus for displaying live television is described in which live television can be received and output to a user on one or more display devices. A user analysis module is configured to acquire data concerning television content being viewed contemporaneously by other users in a network, and the user's set-top-box can output content related to the acquired data to one or more display devices so that it can be viewed by the user. In addition the set-top-box is connected to a server including an extractor configured to extract data from the live television. A selection tool is configured to select augmentation content using the extracted data, and the set-top-box is configured to output the selected augmentation content to one or more display devices. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120240145 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING A STATUS CHANGE OF A MULTIMEDIA ASSET IN MULTIMEDIA DELIVERY SYSTEMS - Systems and methods are disclosed which detect a change in the status of a multimedia asset in a multimedia delivery system, and take steps to make the multimedia asset available after the status change. The multimedia asset can then be locally recorded on the user's digital video recorder (DVR) before the status changes. Alternatively, the user can be directed to an equivalent asset, for example, video-on-demand (VOD). The user may also receive a notification, which can be displayed on a TV or computer monitor or send to a remote device, for example to a mobile phone as an email or a short message. The user may be able to purchase the asset and/or initiate recording the asset. The status can be, for example, an expiration date of an asset, or a change of the source or format of an asset. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120246670 | CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING MULTIPLEXED TRANSPORT CHANNELS - A content distribution system includes a distribution center, a processor, a switch, and first and second multiplexers. The distribution center receives and applies program content on program channels. The processor identifies subsets of the program channels in response to a respective score associated with the program channels. The switch couples the distribution center to the multiplexers. The switch applies program channels to respective inputs of the first and second multiplexers in response to the processor. A method for optimizing a multiplexed transport channel includes the steps of identifying a set of program channels designated for distribution via the multiplexed transport channel, arranging the set of program channels in subsets, the program channels within a subset grouped in accordance with a viewing score, multiplexing the program channels of the subsets to a respective transport channel and applying the respective transport channels to a distribution medium for delivery to the destination. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120254910 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REAL TIME MEDIA CONSUMPTION FEEDBACK - Systems and methods for providing users with a real time or near-real time indications of media channels or programs that are currently receiving the most usage or consumption within a defined population of users are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method receives media usage data for currently airing media while the media is being aired and creates an ordered list of media channels or programs for presentation, based at least in part on the media usage data. The method then presents the ordered list of media channels or programs while the media is being aired. In an embodiment, a system further provides the ability to easily select and tune one of the indicated channels or programs in an interactive interface. In an embodiment, the selected media channels or programs are sold on demand or as part of a service upgrade if they are not included in a user's current subscription. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120254911 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE TO ESTIMATE LOCAL MARKET AUDIENCES OF MEDIA CONTENT - Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to estimate local market audiences of media content are disclosed herein. An example method disclosed herein includes weighting audience measurement data associated with a first geographic area based on population data associated with a second geographic area different from the first geographic area to form weighted data, determining a factor based on the audience measurement data and tuning data associated with the second geographic area, and processing the weighted data based on the factor to determine an audience exposure metric estimating exposure to media content in the second geographic area. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120260277 | Multimedia Test Systems - A system for monitoring the quality of DRM-protected multimedia data streams, the system comprising at least one computer having a network connection to receive at least one said DRM-protected multimedia data stream, program memory, working memory, and a processor coupled to said program memory, working memory, and wherein said program memory stores processor control code for a media player for said multimedia data stream and code to control said processor to: play said DRM-protected multimedia data stream to provide at least a decrypted video data output stream for display on a monitor; capture still image data from a succession of still images from said video data output stream; process said still image data to detect greater than a threshold difference between at least two of said still images; and output fault data identifying a potential video quality fault responsive to absence of detection of said greater than a threshold difference. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120260278 | Estimating Demographic Compositions Of Television Audiences - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for estimating demographic compositions of television audiences. In an aspect, audience demographics are estimated from viewing device log records and household demographic data describing demographic segments to which members of the households belong. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120260279 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Tailored Content - Methods, systems, and products tailor content to users. Clickstream data is merged with a user attribute and content information. A merged record is compared to advertising attributes of advertisements. When the merged record matches an advertising attribute, an advertisement associated with the advertising attribute is retrieved and sent to the user. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120272258 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DISPLAYING CONTENT - An indication that a user is accessing an online resource is received from a user terminal. The online resource provides an item of primary content for display on the user terminal with an associated size control, wherein the associated size control, when activated by the user, is configured to cause the item of primary content to occupy substantially all of the display area. The operation of the size control is modified, wherein at least partly in response to the user activating the size control: the item of primary content will be increased in size but will not occupy substantially all of the display area so as to leave room on the user terminal display area to display a first plurality of items of supplementary content or representations thereof, or the plurality of items of supplementary content or representations thereof will be caused to overlay the primary content. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120272259 | VIDEO CONTENT ANALYSIS FOR AUTOMATIC DEMOGRAPHICS RECOGNITION OF USERS AND VIDEOS - A video demographics analysis system selects a training set of videos to use to correlate viewer demographics and video content data. The video demographics analysis system extracts demographic data from viewer profiles related to videos in the training set and creates a set of demographic distributions, and also extracts video data from videos in the training set. The video demographics analysis system correlates the viewer demographics with the video data of videos viewed by that viewer. Using the prediction model produced by the machine learning process, a new video about which there is no a priori knowledge can be associated with a predicted demographic distribution specifying probabilities of the video appealing to different types of people within a given demographic category, such as people of different ages within an age demographic category. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120278826 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HIGHLY SCALABLE AUTOMATED TESTING AND MONITORING OF RECEIVING DEVICES - In various embodiments, a plurality of automated monitoring and control system modules (automated monitoring and control system module) are individually connected to respective receiving devices via the audio and video output ports of each respective receiving device. Each automated monitoring and control system module may be configured to receive a testing program from a centralized monitoring system for the receiving device based on identification data of the receiving device and execute the received testing program for the receiving device. Each automated monitoring and control system module is connected to the centralized monitoring system over a local area network (LAN) or the Internet in order to send testing results, diagnostic data and captured video and audio data for further processing by the centralized monitoring system. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120278827 | Method for Personalized Video Selection - Methods in which image metadata identifying video objects in video data files is recorded; access to video data files by an end user of an access device is monitored; and a record of the concentration of personal video preferences is compiled from the monitored accesses and the image metadata of the video data files accessed by the end user. This record is then used to create summarizations of videos considered for prospective viewing by an end user and/or to select commercial messages such as advertisements to be delivered to the end user. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120284736 | System and Method of Selecting a Multimedia Stream - A particular method includes detecting a channel change request at a set-top box. The channel change request specifies a requested channel that is associated with a plurality of multimedia streams, where each multimedia stream has a corresponding content format. A particular multimedia stream is selected based on an available bandwidth of a service to a premises of the set-top box. Alternately, or in addition, the particular multimedia stream may be selected based on an output setting of the set-top box, scheduled recordings at a digital video recorded associated with the set-top box, available storage space at the digital video recorder, and other factors. In one example, the method may implement channel proxy functionality, reducing redundancy and complexity at an electronic program guide and simplifying a channel selection process for a user. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120284737 | System and Method for a Video Content Service Monitoring and Provisioning Architecture - According to one example embodiment a storage medium having computer instructions which, responsive to being executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations. The operations can include analyzing data from data sources of an internet-protocol television network where the data provided by the data sources includes set-top-box data having voice over internet protocol usage for a plurality of subscribers of the internet protocol television network in a geographic area and correlating video provisioning information obtained from the data sources, individual subscriber channel viewing information, internet-usage data, subscriber data and demographic data to produce correlated information. The operations can include generating one or more reports associated with the plurality of subscribers in the geographic area based on the correlated information. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120291057 | PROBABILISTIC-BASED CONTENT RECOMMENDER - A method including providing a television service to customers; identifying a customer when the customer uses the television service; tracking content viewed by the customer; calculating probabilities based on the customer's viewing of contents, wherein the probabilities pertain to features applicable to the viewed contents and the features include genres of the viewed contents; selecting one or more upcoming contents, available at a future date to the customer, to recommend to the customer based on one or more features applicable to the upcoming content that correspond to one or more features applicable to the viewed contents; and providing a user interface to permit the customer to select from the one or more upcoming contents recommended to the customer. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120297410 | Streaming With Optional Broadcast Delivery of Data Segments - For streaming data in a mobile communication network, a descriptive file ( | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120304207 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISEMENT CORRELATION - An approach is provided for enabling advertisers to correlate a communication session with an amount of consumption of the advertisement by a viewer. A correlation platform tracks an amount of consumption of an advertisement presented via a set-top box associated with a user. The amount of consumption of the advertisement is then correlated to a communication session initiated by the user in response to the presentation of the advertisement. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120304208 | Targeted television advertisement and television programming control apparatus, system and method - A targeted television advertisement and television programming control apparatus, system and method, may include a biometric viewer tracker, a programming tracking server, and an advertisement server. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120304209 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO INCREASE EFFICIENCY AND SPEED OF ANALYTICS REPORT GENERATION IN AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS - A method of generating television Audience Measurement System (AMS) reports and a system executing the method are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of receiving a plurality of encoded report payloads from a plurality of client devices, storing the encoded report payloads in a database, transferring at least one encoded report payload from the database into randomly addressable memory (RAM), decoding the at least one encoded report payload in RAM, parsing the decoded data in RAM with at least one matching algorithm to determine the occurrence of events, compiling a database of parsed data, and generating an AMS report from the database of parsed data. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120304210 | HIGHLY SCALABLE AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM WITH CLIENT EVENT PRE-PROCESSING - Methods of reporting Audience Measurement System (AMS) viewership events on a client device and systems implementing the method are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of receiving at least one event message on a client device, wherein each event message is a data signal indicating an occurrence of an event, processing the at least one event message on the client device to create an AMS viewership report, and transmitting the AMS viewership report. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120304211 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED AUDIENCE MEASURING - Systems and methods for measuring audience information of programs are described. Systems and methods for providing audience information to users of interactive television applications are described. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120304212 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO ADJUST SIGNATURE MATCHING RESULTS FOR AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT - Methods and apparatus to adjust signature matching results for audience measurement are disclosed. An example method to adjust a signature matching result associated with monitoring a media presentation disclosed herein comprises obtaining, from a monitoring device, an audio signature representative of the monitored media presentation, obtaining, from the monitoring device, an environmental characteristic associated with the audio signature, and adjusting the signature matching result using an adjustment value when the audio signature is determined to match a reference signature representative of reference media, the adjustment value being selected from a plurality of adjustment values based on the matched reference signature and the environmental characteristic. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120304213 | METHOD FOR ACQUIRING INFORMATION IN A COEXISTENCE SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS USING SAME - A method for receiving a measurement report includes: transmitting, by an apparatus including a coexistence manager (CM), a measurement request message for acquiring a measurement report from at least one device that uses a channel in a TV band to a coexistence enabler (CE); and receiving, by the apparatus, a measurement response message including the result of the measurement results from the CE. The measurement request message includes a first element indicating which of a primary detection, a detection of a device that uses the TV band, and a channel load measurement is requested. The measurement request message includes at least one of a start frequency, an end frequency, a channel list, and a measurement time related to the measurement, and the measurement report includes at least one selected from among the result of primary detection, the result of the detection of the device that uses the TV band. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120311620 | POWER MANAGEMENT FOR AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT METERS - Power management methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture for audience measurement meters are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein comprises determining an activation state of a media presentation device, and controlling activation of an audience measurement meter based on the activation state of the media presentation device, the audience measurement meter to monitor the media presentation device when the activation state is an active state. Another example method disclosed herein comprises obtaining presentation device state data representing an activation state of a media presentation device to be monitored by an audience measurement meter, the presentation device state data including time information, and determining whether to fault audience measurement data reported by the audience measurement meter based on the presentation device state data and outage information determined from the audience measurement data. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120311621 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR MEASURING MULTICAST LATENCY - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for measuring multicast latency are disclosed. According to one method, the method includes emulating one or more Internet protocol television (IPTV) user devices by generating channel leave and join requests. The method further includes monitoring network responses to the channel leave and join requests and calculating, during a cycle of channel leave and join requests for a user device and prior to repeating the cycle, at least one metric of latency associated with the channel leave and join requests. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120311622 | METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR REPORTING INTERNET PROTOCOL TELEVISION RELATED DATA COLLECTED FROM APPLICATION AND DEVICE DATA - Methods and computer program products for reporting application and device data retrieved from within an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) network environment are provided. IPTV system usage data is retrieved from at least one IPTV device and normalized into a predetermined data format. The IPTV system usage data is parsed according to predetermined criteria. The parsed IPTV system usage data is delivered to a dedicated data mart for storage, the IPTV system usage data that is stored within at least one dedicated data mart is accessed, and the IPTV system usage data that is stored at the at least one dedicated data mart is used to generate a report. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120317592 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION OF CONTENTS - A method and system for providing additional information of contents to enhance quality for selecting contents by sharing previous information about the contents with one another is provided. The method comprises capturing an image of the contents and a previously defined action of a user and transmitting the capture images to a contents sever at at least one or more terminals, when the previously defined action of the user is detected while receiving the corresponding contents from the contents server and reproducing the received contents and including the capture images received from the at least one or more terminals in the additional information of the corresponding contents at the contents server. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120317593 | FACT CHECKING METHOD AND SYSTEM - A fact checking system verifies the correctness of information and/or characterizes the information by comparing the information with one or more sources. The fact checking system automatically monitors, processes, fact checks information and indicates a status of the information. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120324495 | DETECTING AND DISTRIBUTING VIDEO CONTENT IDENTITIES - Embodiments related to distributing an identity of a video item being presented on a video presentation device within a video viewing environment to applications configured to obtain content related to the video item are disclosed. In one example embodiment, an identity is transmitted by determining an identity of the video item currently being presented on the video presentation device and responsive to a trigger, transmitting the identity of the video item to a receiving application while the video item is being presented on the video presentation device. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120324496 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO COUNT AUDIENCE MEMBERS - Methods and apparatus to count audience members are disclosed. An example method includes identifying a first audience member present at a first time, incrementing a stored first count of a number of times the first audience member is present during a day part corresponding to the first time, incrementing a stored tuning occasion count, identifying a second audience member present at a second time, incrementing a stored second count of a number of times the second audience member is present during the day part, incrementing the stored tuning occasion count, determining a probability that an unidentified audience member is the first audience member based on the first count, the second count, and the tuning occasion count, and counting the first audience member based on a comparison of the probability to a threshold. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120324497 | CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING MULTIPLEXED TRANSPORT CHANNELS - A content distribution system includes a distribution center, a processor, a switch, and first and second multiplexers. The distribution center receives and applies program content on program channels. The processor identifies subsets of the program channels in response to a respective score associated with the program channels. The switch couples the distribution center to the multiplexers. The switch applies program channels to respective inputs of the first and second multiplexers in response to the processor. A method for optimizing a multiplexed transport channel includes the steps of identifying a set of program channels designated for distribution via the multiplexed transport channel, arranging the set of program channels in subsets, the program channels within a subset grouped in accordance with a viewing score, multiplexing the program channels of the subsets to a respective transport channel and applying the respective transport channels to a distribution medium for delivery to the destination. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120324498 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING DISCUSSION REGARDING MEDIA PROGRAMS - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a device including a controller to detect a plurality of users engaging in a voice conference related to a presentation of a media program, convert speech dialog detected in the voice conference to textual dialog, detect from the textual dialog a behavioral profile of at least one of the plurality of users, and identify at least one of advertisement content and marketable media content based on the behavioral profile of the at least one user. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120331496 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PRESENTING SOCIAL NETWORK CONTENT IN CONJUNCTION WITH VIDEO CONTENT - Methods and apparatus for generating, distributing, and/or presenting social networking content in conjunction with video content are described. In accordance with various embodiments, social networking related information, e.g., comments, remarks and/or a twitter feed, are displayed in conjunction with the display of video to which the social networking information relates. The social networking related information may be displayed on the same or a different device from that which is used to display the video comments. In some embodiments, the social networking information, e.g., comments on a program, event or broadcast, are displayed on a personal computer or other device such as a mobile telephone, while video content is being viewed, e.g., on a television which is provided video content via a set top box. A knowledgeable moderator can review, supplement, add and delete comments in real time enhancing the overall social networking session. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120331497 | Digital Television Channel Trending - Channel trending, including determining a number of viewers watching a multimedia program, is achieved in a digital television network. Cached multimedia frames that correspond to portions of the multimedia program are maintained, for example, on a device located on an edge (i.e., in a network edge device) of the digital television network. In response to a request from a client device (e.g., a set-top box) to receive the multimedia program, cached multimedia frames are fed from the edge device to the client device. Upon a seamless transfer or handoff resulting in a simulcast replicator or multicast replicator providing further portions of the multimedia program, a signal (e.g., a simple network management protocol TRAP statement) is sent to a viewership statistic server for incrementing a counter. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120331498 | COOPERATIVE SYSTEM FOR MEASURING ELECTRONIC MEDIA - A cooperative electronic media measurement system is disclosed that measures the electronic media usage of one or more individuals by a media research entity. The media research entity defines at least one specialized task useful to the media research entity. The at least one specialized task is performed by a media handler provided by another entity and concerns a handling of electronic media by the media handler. The individual is tracked with at least one software agent of the media research entity. At least one software agent obtains a product of the specialized task performed by the media handler via at least one defined interface that provides interoperability between the media handler and the at least one software agent. Cooperative media handlers automatically obtain information from, or otherwise obtain information about, presented media objects including identification tags, if present, and other information, for collection by the research data collection agents. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20130007789 | SET-TOP BOX CHANNEL TUNING TIME MEASUREMENT - A network device receives, across a network, measurements of channel tuning times from multiple, different set-top boxes (STBs), where the channel tuning times are measured internally within each of the multiple, different STBs. The network device stores the measurements of the channel tuning times as data in a data structure and analyzes channel tuning behavior of at least one of the multiple, different STBs based on the data stored in the data structure. The network device generates a report of the channel tuning behavior of the at least one of the multiple, different STBs. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007790 | PROGRAM TELECAST MONITORING USING WATERMARKS - Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture for program telecast monitoring using watermarks are disclosed. An example method for program monitoring disclosed herein comprises obtaining a sequence of watermarks detected from a presentation of media content at a monitored site, and comparing a data pattern obtained from the sequence of watermarks with a set of possible data patterns to identify a particular program transmission of the media content, the set of possible data patterns being associated respectively with a set of possible transmissions of the media content. An example method to watermark media content disclosed herein comprises encoding the media content with a sequence of watermarks, a watermark in the sequence of watermarks including content identifying payload data, and modifying the sequence of watermarks to also include a data pattern associated with a particular transmission of the media content. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007791 | VIDEO PLAYING SYSTEM AND VIDEO SYSTEM - A video playing system and a video content channel information query system are proposed. The video playing system includes a video content receiver, a query unit, a receiving unit and a control unit. The video content receiver acquires a video content of a channel for playing, and switches the channel to another channel. The query unit is connected to at least an external device and sends a query request to the external device, where the query request is to query playing status information of a specified channel. The receiving unit receives the playing status information of the specified channel from the external device. In addition, the control unit, according to the playing status information of the specified channel, determines whether to switch the channel from which the video content receiver receives the video content. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007792 | RECOMMENDING MEDIA PROGRAMS BASED ON MEDIA PROGRAM POPULARITY - A computer-implemented method includes receiving information expressing a user's interest in one or more media programs, obtaining information indicative of popularity for a plurality of media programs responsive to the received information by individuals other than the user, and transmitting one or more recommendations of media programs for display to the user, from the plurality of media programs that relate to the received information. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007793 | PRIMARY SCREEN VIEW CONTROL THROUGH KINETIC UI FRAMEWORK - A method and system for generating a dynamic user interface on a second screen control device for controlling the content being displayed on primary viewing screen. The method and system utilizes view context which is based on the content being displayed, additional information, and the type of second screen control device. The view context is then used to generate the user interface on the second screen control device. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130014146 | MOBILE CONTENT TRACKING PLATFORM APPARATUSES AND SYSTEMS - The MOBILE CONTENT TRACKING PLATFORM APPARATUSES AND SYSTEMS (“Mobile-Track”) transforms user device activity data via Mobile-Track components, into user advertisement exposure data and advertisement effects data. A system is disclosed, comprising: a memory; a processor disposed in communication with said memory, and configured to issue a plurality of processing instructions stored in the memory, wherein the processor issues instructions for obtaining a user mobile device identifier; monitoring data traffic coming in and out of the user mobile device based on the obtained user mobile device identifier via a mobile usage tracking entity; parsing the monitored data traffic to determine a data content type of the data traffic; determining user media content exposure information from the parsed monitored data traffic based on the data content type; and generating user media content exposure statistics data. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130014147 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLEANING TELEVISION VIEWING MEASUREMENT DATA - A system and method for cleaning television viewing behavior data collected from set top boxes by detecting and correcting various problems that can occur in the viewing data. Three problems that may be detected and corrected by the system include: overflows of memory buffers; inclusion of non-human generated tuning events; and presence of clock offsets. After cleaning the television viewing behavior data, the cleaned data may be used to analyze audience viewing behavior in a manner that achieves a higher degree of accuracy than can be achieved by using uncleaned television viewing behavior data. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130014148 | AGGREGATION-BASED METHODS FOR DETECTION AND CORRECTION OF TELEVISION VIEWERSHIP ABERRATIONS - A method cleans television viewing behavior data collected from a plurality of television set top boxes by using aggregation to detect an excess or a deficit in viewership for a group of television set top boxes. In various aspects, the group of set top boxes may be associated with a particular television service provider, cable television head-end, or data warehouse. Additionally, the method can clean television viewing behavior data by detecting and correcting aberrant viewership in a time series, that is based on a weekly or an approximately monthly frequency. The aberrant viewership can be detected by calculating a minimum expected number of viewers for a day, and comparing it to the actual number of households that reported viewers for that day. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130014149 | Electronic Apparatus and Display Process - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes an acquiring module and a display process module. The acquiring module is configured to acquire information regarding a plurality of persons using information of video content data, the plurality of persons appearing in a plurality of sections in the video content data. The display process module is configured to display (i) a time bar representative of a sequence of the video content data, (ii) information regarding a first person appearing in a first section of the sections, and (iii) information regarding a second person different from the first person, the second person appearing in a second section of the sections. The first area of the time bar corresponds to the first section is displayed in a first form, and a second area of the time bar corresponds to the second section is displayed in a second form different from the first form. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130014150 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING PREVIOUS WATCH LIST OF CONTENTS PROVIDED BY DIFFERENT SOURCES, AND DISPLAY DEVICE WHICH PERFORMS SAME - A display device and a method of providing a contents list are provided. An apparatus/method is provided. The method includes: playing contents; determining whether the contents are played more than a predetermined time; when the contents are played more than the predetermined time, storing contents information including source information on the contents in a previously-viewed-contents list; and displaying the stored previously-viewed-contents list according to a user's input. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130024880 | WEB-BASED MUSIC PARTNER SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods for media content development and deployment are disclosed. An example system includes a development platform and content delivery platform, the platforms including a processor and a memory. The example development platform is to provide an interface to accept media content from a provider to be certified for delivery via the delivery platform. The example development platform is to facilitate testing of the media content by the provider via the interface according to testing tools and an application programming interface provided in conjunction with the development platform. The example development platform is to process the media content for monitored beta test by users via the content delivery platform. The example development platform is to evaluate the monitored beta test to determine suitability of the media content for release. The example development platform is to facilitate release of the media content for general availability via the content delivery platform. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130031574 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR FACT CHECKING REBROADCAST INFORMATION - A fact checking system verifies the correctness of information and/or characterizes the information by comparing the information with one or more sources. The fact checking system automatically monitors, processes, fact checks information and indicates a status of the information. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130036433 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CACHING DATA IN MEDIA-ON-DEMAND SYSTEMS - Systems and methods may be provided for retrieving non-on-demand media data and on-demand media data that is provided by separate data sources. On-demand media data may be cached to reduce system latencies and the burden on the distribution network. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130036434 | Targeted Television Advertising Based on Profiles Linked to Multiple Online Devices - A profile provider: (i) associates a primary online device (OD1) with a set-top box (STB); (ii) a location of OD1 at some point in time is estimated to be “near” the STB, thereby establishing a STB proxy location; (iii) one or more secondary online devices (OD2s) are observed to be located “near” the STB proxy location and are associated with the STB; and (iv) a television advertisement is selected to be directed to the STB, which selection is based at least in part on profile information linked to one of the associated OD2s. The method can be particularly advantageous in situations wherein: the STB is not connected to any computer network; the STB is not ever connected to the same local area network as OD1 or OD2; or television service (used by the STB) and online access (used by OD1 and OD2s) are provided by different service providers. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130036435 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO OBTAIN ANONYMOUS AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT DATA FROM NETWORK SERVER DATA FOR PARTICULAR DEMOGRAPHIC AND USAGE PROFILES - Methods and apparatus to obtain anonymous audience measurement data from network server data for particular demographic and usage profiles are disclosed. An example method to provide anonymous audience measurement data to an audience measurement entity disclosed herein comprises obtaining a demographic profile and a network usage profile, sampling customer data stored in a customer database not accessible by the audience measurement entity to generate a customer sample representative of the demographic profile and the network usage profile without customer intervention, the customer sample including customer identification information, processing log data obtained from a network server not accessible by the audience measurement entity using the customer identification information to determine audience measurement data associated with customers in the customer sample, and removing the customer identification information from the audience measurement data to prepare the anonymous audience measurement data for the audience measurement entity. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130042262 | PLATFORM-INDEPENDENT INTERACTIVITY WITH MEDIA BROADCASTS - A method is disclosed including: receiving a broadcast media sequence; comparing broadcast media sequence and a reference media sequence; generating broadcast information related to the broadcast media sequence based on the comparison of the broadcast media sequence and the reference media sequence; and providing interactivity related to the broadcast media sequence to at least one viewer based on the broadcast information. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130047176 | CONTENT RECOMMENDATION USING SUBSEQUENCE PROFILING - A method includes identifying at least one program viewing sequence. The at least one program viewing sequence includes a plurality of programs. The method may include identifying a subsequence in the at least one program viewing sequence. The subsequence includes a subset of the plurality of programs in the at least one program viewing sequence and the subset of the plurality of programs is arranged in an identified order. The method may further include determining a user profile based on the subsequence. The method may include receiving a current viewing indicator. In addition, the method may include determining whether the current viewing indicator indicates the subsequence. The method may also include providing a content recommendation based on the user profile for the subsequence in response to a determination that the current viewing indicator indicates the subsequence. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130055301 | DELIVERY CHANNEL SELECTION AND APPLICATION LAYER HANDOVER OF PROGRAMS FOR A MOBILE SERVICE - Methods and devices provide channel assignments of programs delivered in a mobile setting. The channel assignments include unicast channels, multicast channels, and broadcast channels. The channel assignments are based on one or more of the type of program, user viewership information, or user voting information. Additionally, methods and devices provide for handover between mobile service areas at the application layer. Programs are buffered based on a handover time. During the handover, the buffered portion of the program is played. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130061259 | DYNAMIC USER INTERFACE RENDERING BASED ON USAGE ANALYTICS DATA IN A MEDIA CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - An exemplary method includes a media content access device, which is configured to access a media content service distributed over a media content distribution network, 1) detecting a request for a presentation of a user interface configured to facilitate usage of the media content service by a user of the media content access device, 2) determining, in response to the request, whether usage analytics data representative of a historical pattern of usage of the media content service is available, 3) rendering, if the usage analytics data is determined to be unavailable, a static default version of the user interface in accordance with data representative of a static default configuration of the user interface, and 4) rendering, if the usage analytics data is determined to be available, a dynamic version of the user interface based on the user analytics data. Corresponding methods, systems, and apparatuses are also disclosed. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130074109 | TELEVISION LISTING USER INTERFACE BASED ON TRENDING - Systems, methods, and media for a television listing user interface for set top boxes, computers, tablets, mobile phones, and other devices. Exemplary methods may include ranking broadcast content according to trend data and a program guide that includes a visual representation of the ranked broadcast content, which may be hierarchically ranked according to the trend data. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130074110 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR PARALLEL FACT CHECKING - A fact checking system verifies the correctness of information and/or characterizes the information by comparing the information with one or more sources. The fact checking system automatically monitors, processes, fact checks information and indicates a status of the information. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130081072 | PREEMPTIVE VIDEO DELIVERY TO DEVICES IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - Content may be preemptively delivered to mobile devices in a wireless network using multicast delivery techniques. In one implementation, a method may include analyzing network traffic of a number of users; determining, based on the analysis, whether a content item is a popular content item, as determined by requests for the content item from the users; and transmitting, a signal, in response to the determination, to schedule preemptive multicast delivery of the content item to mobile devices. The multicast delivery may be performed over one or more radio interfaces in which multiple mobile devices receive the content item over a shared radio channel. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130081073 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING AND OBTAINING REWARD SERVICE LINKED WITH MEDIA CONTENTS - Provided are a method and apparatus for providing and obtaining a reward service linked with media contents. The method includes transmitting reward service information linked with the media contents to a user device, receiving check-in information authenticating that certain media contents are being played, determining whether a provision condition of the reward service is satisfied, and granting a use right with respect to the reward service to the user device when the provision condition of the reward service is satisfied. Herein, user utility with respect to media contents are improved and user information of the media contents are collected. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130081074 | System and Method of Monitoring Blackout Events - Systems and methods of monitoring blackout events are provided. A particular method includes receiving a server blackout event specifying a scheduled blackout of a first media service. The method also includes receiving a client blackout event from at least one set top box affected by the scheduled blackout. The method further includes generating a compliance report indicating whether the set top box complied with the scheduled blackout. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130081075 | CORRELATION OF MEDIA METADATA GATHERED FROM DIVERSE SOURCES - A DVR, server, or other agent correlates media metadata from diverse sources, like an EPG data provider and multiple video-on-demand (VOD) service providers. Metadata sets from different sources are compared in order to attempt to identify identical programs to which the metadata sets pertain. From at least one metadata set, information about the program that the other metadata set lacks is selected. A “canonical” data structure instance for the program is created. The information that is lacking from at least one of the metadata sources is inserted into that instance. For each source from which a program is available, the DVR stores the identity of that source on the DVR's persistent storage device in association with the canonical data structure instance for that program. The DVR receives search criteria from a user and then searches the stored canonical data structure instance for programs that satisfy the criteria. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130086603 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRECISION INTEREST MATCHING LOCALLY STORED CONTENT - Methods and systems for delivering selected content to users are provided. More particularly, profile information associated with an individual user is applied to select content for presentation to that user. While the user is viewing streamed content, content selected through application of the user profile can also be presented to the user. The selected content can be inserted into space reserved within a data stream for such selected content, or can be presented in place of other content delivered as part of the requested content. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130086604 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMANCE METRIC ANALYSIS OF VIDEO ASSETS - A method and system for monitoring video assets provided by a multimedia content distribution network (MCDN) includes an expert test monitoring platform (ETMP) configured to emulate MCDN client systems at a facility of an MCDN service provider. The ETMP may be used to obtain remote control response metrics, along with internal performance data, for client systems in the ETMP. Historical metrics and historical data may be logged along with the release version for the client systems, which may then be used to correlate operational performance when analyzing client system characteristics. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130097624 | SYSTEM FOR RECOMMENDING FAVORITE CHANNEL/PROGRAM BASED ON TV WATCHING PATTERN AND METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are a system for recommending a favorite channel/program based on a television (TV) watching pattern and a method thereof. The present invention provides a system and a method for recommending a favorite channel/program by learning a television (TV) watching pattern using a Bayesian network, by extracting recommended candidate favorite channel/programs by applying an entropy theory to the learned Bayesian network, and by applying a fuzzy logic operation to the extracted candidate favorite channel/programs. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130104158 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURING AND TESTING SET-TOP BOXES - A system and method for testing multiple set-top boxes. One of the multiple set-top boxes is engaged in a testing platform of the test fixture. The testing platform includes an adapter for interfacing the set-top box with the test fixture. The multiple set-top boxes are automatically tested in parallel. Test results for each of the multiple set-top boxes are measured. The test results for each of the multiple set-top boxes are displayed to a user. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130104159 | TELEVISION AUDIENCE TARGETING ONLINE - Users receive a data feed that has information relating to a first media and extracts events from the received data feed. The method generates a profile relating to a first item in the first media, and processes behavior of a first group of users of a second media. The behavior of the first group of users is modeled to generate a scoring function. A system for targeting a user includes a data feed, an event extractor, one or more profiles, a behavior processor, and a model. The data feed has information relating to a first media. The event extractor receives the data feed and extracts particular information based on a second media to generate profile(s). The behavior processor compares the profile to a first group of users of the second media. The model space models user behavior by using the profile. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130111511 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO PUBLISH A PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130111512 | METHOD TO EVALUATE THE GEOGRAPHIC POPULARITY OF GEOGRAPHICALLY LOCATED USER-GENERATED CONTENT ITEMS | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130111513 | System and Method For Managing Distributed Content | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130117772 | Information providing system using video tracking - Provided is an information providing system using video tracking, such that tracking of an original image can be performed without editing/processing the original video and without requiring a high level programming knowledge, and information can thus be easily provided. The system is configured so that an overlay screen ( | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130117773 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING VIEWERSHIP AND/OR MESSAGE DATA - Methods and systems for enhancing program-viewing experience with viewership, message, and supplemental data include receiving a program identifier for a media program to be viewed; receiving one or more of viewership, message, and/or supplemental data relating to the media program; compiling the viewership, message, and/or supplemental data with the program identifier; storing the viewership, message, and/or supplemental data in a memory in association with the program identifier; and providing display data representing the viewership, message, and/or supplemental data and the program identifier. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130117774 | SECURE BROADCAST AREA IDENTIFICATION - Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for receiving content available for consumption. For example, in one embodiment, an electronic device can provide location information to a management server that can be validated as originating from a trusted source of the electronic device. The management server can then validate the location information and determine the appropriate broadcast area for the electronic device based at least in part on the location information. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130117775 | SECURE BROADCAST AREA IDENTIFICATION - Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for receiving content available for consumption. For example, in one embodiment, an electronic device can provide location information to a management server that can be validated as originating from a trusted source of the electronic device. The management server can then validate the location information and determine the appropriate broadcast area for the electronic device based at least in part on the location information. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130125156 | INTERACTIVE ADVERTISEMENT - Interactive advertisement by capturing images from the content, including: enabling an end user device to capture an image on a screen when a user viewing content on the end user device notices product or service which interests the user; receiving and processing the captured image by generating tags of the captured image and category information of the tags; sending the category information to the end user device to display it to the user, wherein the user selects a category from the category information; receiving and processing the selected category and corresponding tags; and obtaining and sending detailed information related to the processed tags to the end user device. Keywords include interactive advertisement. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130125157 | METHOD OF COLLECTING USAGE INFORMATION - A method and system for micro-cloud computing is described. An application serving node, which is a specifically configured piece of customer premises equipment such as a set-top box, is the server for a micro-cloud network. Various user devices that form part of the micro-cloud network, such as television sets and smart phones, communicate with the application serving node. The application serving node is configured with software that allows various heterogeneous types of data to be obtained and streamed to the user devices in multiple ways. The application serving node performs much of the processing necessary for such content streaming itself and thus represents an edge-based network architecture. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130125158 | NETWORKED SYSTEM FOR INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATION AND REMOTE MONITORING OF INDIVIDUALS - A system for remotely monitoring an individual. The system includes a server system for generating a script program from a set of queries. The script program is executable by a remote apparatus that displays information and/or a set of queries to the individual through a user interface. Responses to the queries that are entered through the user interface together with individual identification information are sent from the remote apparatus to the server system across a communication network. The server system also includes an automated answering service for providing a series of questions from a stored set of questions for an individual at the remote apparatus to respond to, storing responses to each provided question in the series of questions and providing a service based on the individual's response to the questions. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130125159 | MEDIA INFORMATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method of the inventive concept is adaptable to receive information (graphic and audio) generated and affected by direct viewer participation and to be aired to the viewers. The system and method of the present invention provides a unique approach for mass media communication channels wherein the information content to be presented to the viewers is determined not by the management of the television channel but by the viewers actively voting for the topics of their interest and participating in the discussion in the open air. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130132986 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NETWORK BASED ADAPTIVE STREAMING - A method and apparatus for streaming Over-the-Top (OTT) content on a network to subscribers is described. A digital video transport stream of an item of the OTT content is obtained via unicast streaming methods of a resolution and bit rate selected from an available set of different resolutions and bit rates for the digital video transport stream. The digital video transport stream of the selected resolution and bit rate is transmitted in the form of an IP multicast over the network to subscribers. Bandwidth utilization of the network is monitored so that switching of the bit rate to a different bit rate for the digital video transport stream can be controlled to provide adaptive rate control of the IP multicast. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130132987 | OFFERING TASKS TO USERS BASED ON THEIR COMPETENCE AND ON THEIR CURRENT ACTIVITY - The pervasive visibility of television and other screens is leveraged to present task offers to users. A task broker gives the user an incentive if he accepts and successfully performs the task. To be effective, the task broker first collects profile information about the user. Some of the profile information is used to determine what tasks are appropriate for a given user based, for example, on that user's competencies. Other profile information characterizes the user's current level of activity and, based on that, his “interruptibility.” Tasks and incentives can be chosen based on user-profile information including, for example, demographics and the user's previous interactions with the task broker. Information about the user's successful completion of a task can be used to update the user's profile, and future task offers are based on this updated profile information. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130132988 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTENT RECOMMENDATION - Disclosed are a system and method for recommending contents. The content recommendation method includes: receiving audio data or a fingerprint and emotion information of the audio data; extracting a fingerprint and emotion information of the received audio data when the audio data is received; extracting video information corresponding to the fingerprint and emotion information of the audio data to provide the extracted video information to a user if video recommendation is requested; and extracting audio information corresponding to the fingerprint and emotion information of the audio data to provide the extracted audio information to the user if audio recommendation is requested. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130132989 | Method and Device for Collecting Audience Information - Various embodiments provide a method for collecting audience information of a group of users in an audience measurement. The method may include each user dividing its private information into a private portion and a predetermined number of exchange portions; each user transmitting each of its exchange portions to a respective user of the predetermined number of users selected from the group of users; each user aggregating its private portion and exchange portions received from other users of the group of users, thereby producing randomized information; and aggregating the randomized information of the group of users, thereby producing aggregated private information for the group of users. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130132990 | Efficiently Identifying Television Stations in a User Friendly Environment - An entertainment unit is configured to receive broadcast signals for a plurality of television stations may display folders. Each folder may comprise one or more as the folder. Furthermore, the entertainment unit may display one or more indications associated with one or more television stations based on content-based input from the viewer. Upon the viewer selecting a particular indication, the television station associated with that indication may be displayed. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130132991 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FREQUENCY AGILE BAND-PASS FILTERING OF BROADCAST SIGNALS - Example frequency agile band-pass filtering methods disclosed herein include monitoring reception quality of a media broadcast signal received at a headend including a frequency agile band-pass filter to receive the media broadcast signal, sending a first set of commands to cause the frequency agile band-pass filter to tune to and attenuate a first channel included in the media broadcast signal, the first set of commands being sent in response to determining that the first channel is experiencing a degradation of reception quality determined to be caused by a first type of channel interference, and sending subsequent second set of commands over the communication network to the frequency agile band-pass filter to override attenuation processing invoked by the first set of commands in response to determining that the degradation of reception quality is caused by fading in addition to the first type of channel interference. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130139193 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZED CONTENT - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, receiving reaction information from one or more sensors located at a second location that is representative of a reaction by a second user at the second location to the presentation of the personalized content, analyzing the reaction information to determine a response based at least in part on trait information associated with different first users, selecting a second portion of the recorded segments based on a comparison of the determined response with a context identified for each of received recorded segments, and adjusting personalized content to include the selected second portion of the recorded segments. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130139194 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO DETERMINE EXPECTED VIEWERSHIP OF FUTURE TELEVISION BROADCASTS USING RECORDING TIMER DATA - Systems, devices and methods are described to predict the viewership of a television broadcast before the broadcast occurs. Viewers select future broadcasts to record on a digital or other personal video recorder (DVR/PVR), or on any sort of remote storage video recorder (RSDVR). Data describing recordings selected by multiple viewers is provided to a data processing system that determines an expected program viewership based upon the received data. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130145387 | SYSTEM FOR OUTPUTTING A CHOICE RECOMMENDATION TO USERS - System for outputting a choice recommendation to one or more users based on earlier choices made by them. A data record is made per choice per user, each data record including a representation of the user, a representation of the choice and a representation of any other user involved with that choice, such as other users that watched a program with the user. The data record may include a representation of the user, a representation of the choice and a representation of no more than one other user involved with that choice, where more records are made when more other users are involved. The data record may include a representation of an environment linked to the choice, e.g. of a localization and/or hardware and/or software linked to the choice. The recorded representation of other users involved with the choice, such as other users that watched a program with the user, is used later to compute the choice recommendation. A synthetic set of watching events for a detected group of users may be determined for this purpose, based on the identity of the members of the group and the representation of “watch with” users of the watching event. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130145388 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR APPLYING A DATABASE TO VIDEO MULTIMEDIA - A system and method for applying a database to video multimedia is disclosed. Certain embodiments provide media content owners the capability to exploit video processing capabilities using rich, interactive and compelling visual content on a network. Mechanisms of associating video with commerce offerings are provided. Video server and search server technologies are integrated with ad serving personalization agents to make the final presentations of content and advertising. Algorithms utilized by the system use a variety of techniques for making the final presentation decisions of which ads, with which content, are served to which user. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130145389 | FRAMEWORK FOR PROVIDING DIGITAL HOME SERVICES - The systems and methods of the present invention provide for a number of improvements to the TV consumption process, including personalization, community viewing, shared presence and context, messaging, access to ratings and recommendations (including community reviews), alerts, etc. One method that the present invention provides allows for the indication of a given user's context to be provided to other users, such as users in the given user's social network. The method comprises generating an indication of a change in context for a given user, the context comprising information regarding an action of the given user. The indication of the change in context for the given user is propagated to one or more users in the social network for the given user. The indication of the change in context of the given user is presented to users in the given user's social network in conjunction with TV content. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130152115 | Video Loading Control - The specification and drawings present a new method, apparatus and software related product (e.g., a computer readable memory) for controlling loading (e.g., pre-filling) of video data to a user equipment by a wireless network (e.g., from internet) while the video is played by the user equipment using an additional pre-filling based on predicted degradation of connectivity of the user equipment with the wireless network to avoid interruption or deterioration of playing the video and/or to reduce video data loading cost. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130152116 | MONITOR WITH RATINGS SURVEY CAPABILITY - A monitor with ratings survey capability is provided, including a monitor, characterized in that the monitor is equipped with a data collecting means and the data collecting means is connected to a signal resource for collecting viewing history of the monitor during a period from monitor start-up to monitor shut-down. The data collecting means can transmit the collected viewing history back so that the monitor is provided with a function of ratings survey for the convenience of ratings survey of various programs, time slot ratings survey, or recording viewing habit of the family. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130152117 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MAINTAIN AUDIENCE PRIVACY WHILE DETERMINING VIEWING OF VIDEO-ON-DEMAND PROGRAMS - Methods and apparatus to maintain audience privacy while determining viewing of video-on-demand (VOD) programs are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein comprises obtaining subscriber metering data from a site metering device monitoring presentation of VOD content at a first subscriber site, obtaining server metering data from a VOD server, the server metering data including identification information for a plurality of subscriber sites to identify particular VOD content provided uniquely to each of the subscriber sites, the identification information manipulated to preserve anonymity of the plurality of subscriber sites, manipulating at least a portion of the subscriber metering data to determine a first manipulated identifier to identify the first subscriber site, and using the first manipulated identifier to cross-reference the manipulated identification information included in the server metering data to merge the subscriber metering data and the portion of the server metering data uniquely associated with the first subscriber site. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130160037 | Adaptive Media Content Presentation Methods and Systems - An exemplary method includes an adaptive media content presentation system detecting an interaction of a user with a media content program, generating a playing pattern associated with the media content program based on the detected interaction of the user with the media content program, and applying the playing pattern to at least one of a presentation of the media content program and a presentation of an additional media content program. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130160038 | Audio Fingerprint for Content Identification - Methods and system for identifying multimedia content streaming through a television includes retrieving an audio signal from a multimedia content selected for rendering at the television. The retrieved audio signal is partitioned into a plurality of segments of small intervals. A particular segment is analyzed to identify acoustic modulation and to generate a distinct vector for the particular segment based on the acoustic modulation, wherein the vector defines a unique fingerprint of the particular segment of the audio signal. A content database on a server is queried using the vector of the particular segment to obtain content information for multimedia content that matches the fingerprint of the particular segment. The content information is used to identify the multimedia content and the source of the multimedia content that matches the audio signal received for rendering. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130160039 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING INDIVIDUALIZED MEDIA METRICS, AND PROVIDING INDIVIDUALIZED CONDITIONAL ACCESS FOR 3D IMAGE VIEWING - Embodiments of the present invention relate to a system and method for providing video content to one or more viewers. Specific embodiments are related to providing video content to two or more viewers, three or more viewers, four or more viewers, five or more viewers, ten or more viewers, and more than ten viewers. Specific embodiments can utilize 3D shutter glasses and/or a communication path in a 3D image viewing system utilizing shutter glasses to allow the purchase, or use of, subscription, pay-per-view, or on-demand content. The purchase, or use of, such content can be limited for use by a specific number of viewers. The number of viewers can be selected by the operator of a remote control or other human interface device at the time of purchase, or before or after the time or purchase. The number of viewers can be incrementally increased, or decreased, after the initial time of purchase, such as via the remote control or other human interface device. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130160040 | Method To Enable Cooperative Processing And Resource Sharing Between Set-Top Boxes, Personal Computers, And Local Devices - A system and method for resource sharing are provided. The method includes storing an electronic programming guide (EPG) application and an EPG, determining when local memory of a local video device lacks capacity to download additional time of the EPG, and communicating with another device to transmit a resource request to the other device to download the additional time of the EPG to storage in the other device. The method also includes processing for display monitoring data that indicates remaining storage space in the storage of the other device, querying the other device to determine what programming is being viewed, and processing controls included in the EPG application that enable access to the storage of the other device to interact with the EPG stored on the other device through the local video device to schedule a programming event at the local video device. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130160041 | SYSTEM, DIGITAL BROADCASTING RECEIVING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION TERMINAL APPARATUS - A technique capable of performing a more preferable program recommendation is provided. In a system including a digital broadcasting receiving apparatus and an information terminal apparatus, information regarding viewing programs of the digital broadcasting receiving apparatus is recorded into the information terminal apparatus. On the basis of the information regarding the recorded viewing programs, in the digital broadcasting receiving apparatus or the information terminal apparatus, information of programs to be recommended to the user is selected from program information of programs which are scheduled to be broadcasted in future and is displayed. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130174190 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND APPARATUS FOR MULTI-PURPOSE METERING - Methods and apparatus for multi-purpose metering are disclosed. An example method includes acquiring a rate of data transfer to/from the monitored location and comparing the acquired rate of data transfer to a threshold. The example method also includes setting at least one media monitoring device in a first bandwidth mode when the acquired rate of data transfer exceeds the threshold, and setting the at least one media monitoring device in a second bandwidth mode when the acquired rate of data transfer is below the threshold. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130179913 | FREQUENCY CAPPING OF ADDRESSABLE CONTENT - Systems and methods for frequency capping of content are described herein. For example, frequency cap information may be configured to indicate a content exposure limit for a content presentation. The number of exposures to the content presentation at a particular household may be monitored. If the number of exposures is equal to or greater than the content exposure limit, the content may be prevented from being presented to the household. The frequency cap information may be used alone or in combination with other information, such as household demographic, timeframe, and day-part information. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130198767 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING QUALITY OF SERVICE - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, obtaining regression coefficients that quantify a relationship between premises feedback and first network and premises performance indicators, obtaining second network performance indicators for the network elements, obtaining second premises performance indicators for the customer premises equipment, and predicting customer complaints by applying the obtained regression coefficients to at least the second network performance indicators and the second premises performance indicators. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130205313 | Method and Apparatus for Transmitting and Receiving a Measured Report Frame in a Wireless Local Area Network System - A method of transmitting and receiving a measurement report frame in a wireless local area network (WLAN) is disclosed. A method of transmitting a measurement report frame form a first station to a second station in a regulatory domain where a licensed device and an unlicensed device are permitted to operate together in a wireless local area network (WLAN) comprising: receiving, at the first station, a measurement request frame from the second station; and transmitting, to the second station, the measurement report frame including a Primary Service Signal Map field indicating which TV channels are occupied by a primary service signal, wherein the primary service signal is a signal that requires protection by regulation. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130205314 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO SELECT MEDIA BASED ON ENGAGEMENT LEVELS - Methods and apparatus to select media based on engagement levels are disclosed. An example method includes generating an engagement level based on information related to an audience member in a media exposure environment; and selecting, based on the engagement level, one of a plurality of media collections from which a piece of media is to be select for presentation in the media exposure environment. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130205315 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTEXTUAL ADVERTISEMENT REPLACEMENT UTILIZING AUTOMATIC CONTENT RECOGNITION - An automatic content recognition (ACR)-enabled connected TV device may be operable to identify, utilizing ACR, viewer interaction and/or viewer information. The ACR-enabled connected TV device may present, utilizing the ACR, a variant of an advertisement in a next ad pod during presentation of content, based on the identified viewer interaction and/or the identified viewer information. The viewer information may comprise customized preferences profile, default preferences setting, viewing habits, time of day and/or location. The viewer information may also comprise objects and/or events captured by an associated camera. When an identified stored episode of a show is presented via DVR playback, the ACR-enabled connected TV device may present, in a next ad pod, a new version of an advertisement, where the new version of the advertisement may be associated with a new episode of the show and presentation of the new version may result in a C3 rating credit. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130205316 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A REWARD PROGRAM BASED ON AUTOMATIC CONTENT RECOGNITION - An automatic content recognition (ACR)-enabled connected TV device coupled to an ACR system may be operable to detect, utilizing the ACR system, interaction with and/or watching of certain content by a viewer. A reward may be presented by the ACR-enabled connected TV device, utilizing the ACR system, based on the detected interaction and/or watching. The certain content may comprise a program, a commercial, a movie or a game associated with a network that is being presented. The reward may be redeemed to unlock additional features and/or content. The interaction may comprise sharing by the viewer, information on the certain content with one or more other viewers. The ACR-enabled connected TV device may then present the reward based on the sharing. The ACR-enabled connected TV device may be operable to present, utilizing the ACR system, information on alternative content with a higher reward value for the viewer to interact and/or watch. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130205317 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UTILIZING AUTOMATIC CONTENT RECOGNITION FOR CONTENT TRACKING - An automatic content recognition (ACR) enabled (ACR-enabled) connected TV device may be operable to collect viewing data, utilizing ACR. The viewing data may comprise viewer interaction information and/or content presentation information associated with the ACR-enabled connected TV device and/or a paired device. The ACR-enabled connected TV device may store the collected viewing data in the ACR-enabled connected TV device. The stored viewing data may be communicated to one or more network providers, by the ACR-enabled connected TV device, for determining customized services for the ACR-enabled connected TV device. The viewing data may be used to determine how to manage advertisements associated with the ACR-enabled connected TV device and/or at a network level associated with the one or more network providers. The viewing data may be used to determine user profiles. The viewing data may also be used to determine programming and/or advertisements targeted to the ACR-enabled connected TV device. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130205318 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC CONTENT RECOGNITION BASED ON CUSTOMIZED USER PREFERENCES - An automatic content recognition (ACR)-enabled connected TV device may be operable to identify, utilizing an ACR system, content in a presented program. An event category related to the identified content may be identified by the ACR-enabled connected device utilizing the ACR system. The ACR-enabled connected device may determine, utilizing the ACR system, whether to present an overlay associated with the event category, based on a user profile associated with the ACR-enabled connected device. The overlay for viewer interaction may be presented, based on the determination, by the ACR-enabled connected device utilizing the ACR system. The user profile may comprise information on categories of events that may be preferred by the viewer. The user profile may be determined based on input from the viewer. The user profile may also be determined based on viewing history and/or behavior associated with the ACR-enabled connected device. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130205319 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LINKING CONTENT ON A CONNECTED TELEVISION SCREEN WITH A BROWSER - An automatic content recognition (ACR)-enabled connected TV device may be associated with a paired device and the paired device may comprise a browser. The ACR-enabled connected TV device may be operable to enable, utilizing an ACR system, the browser to display, within a section of a browser window, interactive content related to certain content being presented by the ACR-enabled connected TV device. The ACR-enabled connected TV device may be operable to enable, utilizing the ACR system, a viewer to interact with the interactive content. The section of the browser window may be changed dynamically. The certain content may comprise an advertisement of a particular product and the interactive content may comprise a link to a website and/or other information related to the particular product. The certain content may comprise a program associated with a network and the interactive content may comprise information on polling questions related to the program. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130205320 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING THE PROGRAM FOR RELATED RECOMMENDATION OF TV PROGRAM CONTENTS AND WEB CONTENTS - Disclosure relates to an apparatus, system, and method for related recommendation of TV program contents and web contents that enable plentiful information acquisition and effective TV watching by discovering and recommending Internet web contents having a high association with the TV program contents when a TV is watched using a TV terminal connected to the Internet, and to a computer-readable recording medium having a program recorded thereon for executing the method. The apparatus includes: an user profile unit that produces and updates an user profile of a smart TV; a first information collection unit that collects first information that is TV program contents metadata from a smart TV network; a second information collection unit that collects second information that is web contents information from a web; and an integrated content database that stores third integrated information structured with correlation discovered between the first information and the second information. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130212608 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING PRIORITIZED ADVERTISING DATA DURING EXECUTION OF VIDEO TRICK PLAY COMMAND DATA - A non-transitory computer readable medium containing computer executable instructions that when executed by a computer perform a method, the computer program including but not limited to instructions to track a portion of the advertising data forwarded from a first end user device to a second end user; instructions to generate, based on the tracking, penetration data indicating an extent to which the first end user device forwards and propagates the portion of the advertising data to other end users; and instructions to present a portion of the advertising data in a picture in picture display window on the end user device based on the prioritizing of the advertising data during execution of the trick play command data. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130219418 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CHANGING FAST CHANNEL BASED ON SVC IN MULTICAST MOBILE IPTV SERVICE - A method of selecting a predicted channel in mobile IPTV services by an expected channel selection function (ECSF) device linked with a gateway is provided. The method includes acquiring channel connection history information of a terminal user, selecting a channel predicted to be connected next by the terminal user in accordance with the acquired channel connection history information, and setting a bearer of the selected channel. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130219419 | Electronic Programming Guide - A broadcast programming guide is generated based on either designation by or a habit of a user. The programming guide may determine one or more favorite channels of the user based on habitual viewing. The programming guide may suggest channels of interest, based on genres of programming shown on the favorite channels. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130219420 | OBTAINING METADATA PROGRAM INFORMATION DURING CHANNEL CHANGES - An apparatus including a remote command receiver, a decode logic, and a database is described herein. The remote command receiver may detect a remote control command that selects a program. The decode logic may receive a video signal from an access device that is the target of the detected remote control command and separate from the apparatus. The decode logic may capture a video frame that is rendered by the apparatus based on the video signal from the access device, and may decode the captured video frame to generate metadata regarding the selected program. The apparatus may generate a user interface using the metadata stored in the database that is different from the user interface generated by the access device. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130227597 | PERSONAL PROGRAM CHANNEL - Method, device, and storage medium for receiving a request for a program from a user device; transmitting the program to the user device; storing tuning information associated with the request of the program; generating a program log that includes a user's viewing history based on the tuning information; analyzing the program log to identify programs of interest to the user; generating personal program channel information based on the analyzing, wherein the personal program channel information includes a schedule of programs; and providing to the user device a personal program channel that operates according to the schedule of programs. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130227598 | Broadcast Media with Targeted Advertising - Systems and methods are provided for renting a peripheral storage entity to a remote client. From the service provider's vantage, one method transceives negotiation signals between a remote first client (the user) and a service provider, via a network link. Using the negotiation signals, the service provider agrees to rent a peripheral storage entity to the first client, and sends digital content from the peripheral storage entity via the network link to the remote first client. The peripheral storage entity may be located with the service provider or with a remote second client. System and methods are also provided from the perspective of remote clients that are either receiving or supplying peripheral storage entity content. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130227599 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECEIVING AND PROCESSING DIGITAL CONTENT - An intelligent device is configured to receive a DTV signal that includes audio/visual information as well as data signals in a datacast format. The datacast format includes web pages, e.g., in the HTML (hypertext markup language) format of the world wide web. An intelligent filter modifies itself based on user behavior and user preferences in terms of the web pages that a viewer routinely visits. The intelligent filter is then used to identify certain web pages of the pages that are being broadcast and these identified web pages are stored in a cache memory for later use by the viewer. A second tuner can be used to poll multiple channels when updating the cached contents. Cached web pages avoid broadcast latencies (due to periodic updating) and thereby are displayed faster to the viewer. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130227600 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE PROCESSING, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a managing unit that manages a scale calculated based on descriptions of an operation performed on a predetermined item and a series to which the item belongs in association with each other, a first extracting unit that extracts items belonging to the same series as top N series, obtained by sorting the scales, from among a plurality of items, a taste managing unit that manages taste of a user, a second extracting unit that calculates the degree of similarity between the taste managed by the taste managing unit and each item to extract items with higher degrees of similarity, and a recommending unit that recommends a predetermined number of items among the items extracted by the first extracting unit and the items extracted by the second extracting unit to the user. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130227601 | Inferring Demographic Compositions Of Television Audiences - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for inferring a demographic composition of a television audience of a television program. In one aspect, a method extrapolates television audience demographics from rated programs to unrated programs by attributing demographics of rated programs to unrated programs when the rated and unrated program are related by demographically rated channel tunes. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130232517 | AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND PROCESS - The present invention relates to an audience measurement apparatus ( | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130232518 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING WHOLE HOME DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDER USAGE FOR INTERNET PROTOCOL TELEVISION - The subject disclosure describes identifying a table associated with a set-top box that receives services from equipment of a video head-end office, where the table indicates that the set-top box has requested a video stream that would exceed a first number of video streams allocated to the set-top box and would exceed a bandwidth configuration, detecting a conflicting event according to information in the table, reconfiguring the bandwidth configuration allocated to the plurality of set-top boxes to resolve the conflicting event, determining a second number of video streams requested by the plurality of set-top boxes when the conflicting event occurred, determining a third number of video streams to resolve the conflicting event based on a difference between the first number of video streams and the second number of video streams, and instructing the equipment to provide the third number of video streams to the set-top box. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130232519 | System and Method of Authorizing a Device in a Network System - A particular method includes receiving, at a device, an identifier of a set top box. The method also includes determining, at the device, based on the identifier of the set top box, whether the set top box is capable of supporting a high-definition television service or a digital video recording service. The method further includes selectively sending a power-up event to a service provider based on determining whether the capabilities of the set top box match a pending order. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130232520 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCESSING MEDIA CONTENT - In one embodiment, a media content processing subsystem within a plurality of media content processing subsystems configured to receive transmissions of media content instances from a media content provider by way of a network sends a shared content request to the media content provider, the request being for a media content instance included in the transmissions of media content instances from the media content provider. The request is configured to cause the media content provider to identify at least one other media content processing subsystem within the plurality of media content processing subsystems that is able to provide the media content instance to the media content processing subsystem, and instruct the at least one other media content processing subsystem to transmit, to the media content processing subsystem, the media content instance received by the at least one other media content processing subsystem from the media content provider. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130232521 | AUTOMATIC DETERMINATION AND RETRIEVAL OF A FAVORITE CHANNEL - A remote control device tracks the Likely Current Channel (LCC) to which an associated controlled electronic consumer device is tuned. The remote determines an amount of time that the LCC remains unchanged. Based at least in part on this amount of time, the remote determines whether the LCC should be stored as a favorite Channel (FC). When the user subsequently presses a favorite key on the remote the remote uses a codeset and the stored FC information to output a transmitter operational signal. The operation signal carries the FC number such that the electronic consumer device is commanded to tune to the FC. Automatic detection, storage, and ranking of FCs eliminates the need for complex user programming of the remote. Because the ranking of FCs is automatically updated over time, changing user preferences are automatically accommodated without manual intervention, resulting in an effortless user interface. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130247079 | REMOTE MONITORING METHOD FOR SMART TV, AND SMART TV SYSTEM - A remote monitoring method and apparatus for a smart TV and a smart TV system are provided. Real-time status information of the smart TV and/or an external device is retrieved and transmitted to a remote device, such that the remote device in real-time monitors the smart TV and/or the external device according to the real-time status information. Real-time monitoring on smart appliances in a smart appliance control system can be achieved without requiring additional dedicated devices, thereby lowering production costs and maintenance costs as well as saving resources and enhancing user experiences. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130247080 | EMPIRICAL AD POD DETECTION - A system and method for analyzing the viewing behavior of end users that are viewing video content to determine the likely presence of one or more advertisements being viewed and to assess the viewers who stop viewing during the course of such advertisements. The system periodically or continuously receives tune data reflecting the viewing behavior of end users, analyzes the cumulative viewing behavior reflected by the received tune data, and delivers a report of the analysis to advertisers, agencies, media sellers, or other parties that are interested in measuring the effectiveness of advertisements on end users. The analysis by the system can be done over multiple different types of content-distribution platforms. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130247081 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING TELEVISION AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT - A system and method are disclosed that measures audience engagement with a program based on the time a user spends viewing the program. A program's ability to retain viewers is referred to as the “stickiness” of the program. The viewership for a program is determined by the system and then compared to viewership of various other programs in order to assess the audience retention for the analyzed program as compared to the retention of the other programs. The system calculates a “stickiness index” for the program, which is a numerical representation of the analyzed program's stickiness as compared to the average of the other programs. The system may generate a report including the analyzed data and calculated stickiness index for advertisers, agencies, media sellers, or other parties that are interested in assessing viewership of the analyzed program. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130247082 | Method and System for Identification of Distributed Broadcast Content - A method and system of performing high-throughput identifications of broadcast content is provided. A device can send a content identification query, which includes a sample of content being broadcast, to a server to request an identity of the content. The server will perform a computational identification of the content, return the result to the device, and store the result. For all subsequently received content identification queries requesting an identity of content being broadcast from the same source and in a time during which the content is still being broadcast from the source, the server will send the stored content identification in response to the subsequent queries. If a subsequent content identification query does not request the identity of content being broadcast from the same source or is not received during the time that the content is still being broadcast, the server will perform a computational identification of a content sample. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130247083 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MATCHING AN ADVERTISEMENT TO A VIDEO - Systems and methods for automatically matching in real-time an advertisement with a video desired to be viewed by a user are provided. A database is created that stores one or more attributes (e.g., visual metadata relating to objects, faces, scene classifications, pornography detection, scene segmentation, production quality, fingerprinting) associated with a plurality of videos. Supervised machine learning can be used to create signatures that uniquely identify particular attributes of interest, which can then be used to generate the attributes associated with the plurality of videos. When a user requests to view an on-line video having associated with it an advertisement, an advertisement can be selected for display with the video based on matching an advertiser's requirements or campaign parameters with the stored attributes associated with the requested video, with the user's information, or a combination thereof. The displayed advertisement can function as a hyperlink that allows a user to select to receive additional information about the advertisement. The performance or effectiveness of the selected advertisements can be measured and recorded. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130247084 | Delivery Forecast Computing Apparatus for Display and Streaming Video Advertising - A computer-driven apparatus coupled to a network receives data from metadata sources and consumers' display devices. From the sources, the apparatus collects metadata concerning characteristics of a given item of host video and a proposed class of advertisements for web delivery proximate or embedded in the given item. The apparatus continually monitors actual delivery of the given item by receiving transmissions from consumers' display devices. The apparatus develops initial forecasting inputs based on historical data from similar host videos, and then adjusts the forecasting inputs based on the actual deliveries. These forecasting inputs are used to compute an interim supply of advertising opportunities associated with the given item, which is reduced by relevant factors to provide a net available supply forecast. The apparatus provides a human-readable display of information including the net available supply forecast. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130254789 | TELEVISION RECEIVER AND CHANNEL SELECTION METHOD - At power-on of a television receiver, a selection part selects a channel most likely to be selected by a user among all channels over which the television receiver is capable of receiving programs, based on pieces of program history information of program history databases. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130254790 | RESOURCE CONSERVATION FOR PACKET TELEVISION SERVICES - The present invention controls delivery of television content to conserve network resources based on whether the television content is being viewed on a television monitor. A television gateway may monitor a viewer's interactions with the television gateway to determine whether the television content is being viewed at the associated television monitor, or detect whether the television monitor is on or off. Upon determining that the viewer is not viewing the television content, various actions can be taken to conserve network resources. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130254791 | Multimedia Content Viewing Confirmation - Disclosed herein is a computer implemented method and system for confirming that a viewer viewed multimedia content on a client device. A multimedia content owner uploads multimedia content on a server. The client device receives the multimedia content from the server and plays the multimedia content on a display screen of the client device. A random challenge is presented to the viewer by overlaying the random challenge on the multimedia content. A response for the presented random challenge is invoked from the viewer. A correct or partially correct response from the viewer confirms that the multimedia content has been viewed by the viewer. A response report is generated based on the response from the viewer. The viewer is credited with an item of value and the multimedia content owner is debited a fee, if the response report confirms the multimedia content was viewed by the viewer. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130254792 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USING LOW POWER RF CIRCUITS AND EDID DATA AND CONTROL FOR DISPLAY MONITORING - A method and means for display control and monitoring include an extended display identification (EDID) means and communicating with the display using radio frequency communication and extended display identification commands via the extended display identification means to monitor the display's status and to control the display's functionality controllable via the extended display identification commands. The means can include an EDID circuit for interfacing with a display and communicating with at least the display using EDID packets, an RF interface for providing RF communications, an antenna for receiving and transmitting RF packets and a processor for translating the received RF packets to EDID packets and vice-versa. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130263166 | Social Networking System Targeted Message Synchronization - Targeted messages are sent to users of social networking system (SNS) based on the detection of airings of advertisements in time-based media. This approach allows advertisers to leverage their investment in, for example, television advertising by sending advertisements to SNS users who have likely seen the advertisements within shows that they have expressed interest in the context of a SNS. Time-based media streams are analyzed to detect the airings of advertisements within those streams. In one embodiment, SNS content items are received regarding individual users. Based on references in those content items between users and their interests, targeted messages may be sent to users. In another embodiment, targeted messages are sent to SNS users based on the airing of advertisements and targeting criteria provided by advertisers. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130263167 | Adaptive Traffic Management in Cellular Wireless Networks - A method including determining whether historical content data is available for a time period; acquiring historical content data associated with a web content source if the historical content data is available; determining one or more user experience metrics for a specific terminal based on the acquired historical content data; and acquiring an expected quality of experience score based at least in part on the determined one or more user experience metrics, wherein the expected quality of experience score can be used for providing one or more traffic management optimization rules for current content data to the specific terminal. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130263168 | Cooperative Filtering Algorithm-Based Personal Preference Program Recommendation System for IPTV - A system for recommending personalized favorite programs or channels to internet protocol television (IPTV) users based on a collaborative filtering algorithm is disclosed. The system includes a broadcast provider as an IPTV broadcast provider that provides users with TV contents through the Internet, a service server to receive a broadcast signal and program information from the broadcast provider, to store corresponding information in respective databases, to calculate the program information based on a recommendation algorithm to quantitatively calculate priority, and to list the program information in recommendation order based on the currently broadcast or reproduced program, a relay device to receive recommended program list information and a broadcast signal from the service server and to transmit the recommended program list information and the broadcast signal through a network, and a TV to output the recommended program list information and the broadcast signal from the relay device. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130276008 | Content Based Advertising - A method, and a corresponding system, provide advertisements relevant to media displayable on a first electronic media display device. The method includes providing one or more content tags in the displayable media; receiving a signal originating from the first electronic media display device indicating detection of a content tag; selecting an advertisement based on the received content tag detection signal; sending the selected advertisement and one or more selectable action items, the selectable action items associated with the advertisement; receiving an action item selection; and responding to the action item selection. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130276009 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processor includes a receiver configured to receive, from a first device, a response information request including content identification information for identifying a content in a network; an extraction portion configured to extract a plurality of element information pieces included in the content identification information; a storage to store therein each of conditions for a first element information piece among the plurality of element information pieces, and a response information piece in association with each other; and a generator configured to generate a response message including the response information piece stored in association with a condition that the first element information piece extracted by the extraction portion satisfies among the conditions for the first element information piece stored in the storage portion. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130276010 | CONTENT SERVING - A processor-implemented method for serving second content segments to a second media device based on first content segments displayed on a first media device includes receiving an identification of a first content segment; receiving a synchronization signal indicating synchronization between the first and the second media devices; identifying a producer of the first content segment; sending a content segment request to the identified producer and one or more additional producers; when a satisfactory response to the request is received at the processor, selecting a second content segment to serve to the second media device; and when a satisfactory response is not received at the processor, auto generating a substitute second content segment, and serving the substitute second content segment to the second media device. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130276011 | SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING MEDIA CONTENT - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device having a controller element to receive a tout message associated with a media content item, and present the tout message with a selectable Internet link having one or more instructions for directing a set-top box (STB) receiver of a subscriber of the communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130283304 | Validation of TV Viewership Utilizing Methods, Systems and Computer Control Logic - A method, system and computer control logic to provide personalization of a viewer's usage of an Internet TV platform. The method includes tracking a viewer's interactive usage pattern of the TV platform; generating viewer usage data based on the tracking; analyzing the viewer usage data on a substantially real-time basis; and personalizing the viewer's usage of the TV platform on a based on an analysis the viewer usage data. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130283305 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A TELEVISION AND SET-TOP BOX APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT PLATFORM - Systems and method are disclosed for providing a viewer environment on a television device. An authentication component permits a viewer to access a profile on a television device having a network connection, wherein the profile includes personalization data for customizing a viewer environment. The personalization data is derived, at least in part, from the viewer's interaction with the viewer environment. Access to the profile is granted in response to determining that the login credentials received from the viewer are valid. One or more customization aspects to be incorporated into the viewer environment are determined based on the personalization data in the profile. Data is provided for rendering the viewer environment on the television device of the viewer in a manner that includes the customization aspects associated with the personalization data. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130283306 | MEDIA CONTENT SEARCH RESULTS RANKED BY POPULARITY - Media content search results ranked by popularity is described. In embodiment(s), a search request for television media content can be initiated by a viewer, and television media content that is relevant to the search request can be identified. The relevant television media content can then be ranked based on a popularity rating and the relevant television media content can be displayed in an ordered list that is ordered by popularity rankings. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130290997 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING THE REMOVAL OF A CONTROLLING DEVICE - A system and method for using a controllable appliance to report an inoperable state of a controlling device. The appliance is caused to repeatedly determine, at a first predetermined timed interval, if a wireless notification signal, repeatedly transmitted by the controlling device at a second predetermined timed interval, has been received from the controlling device. When the wireless notification signal has not been received from the controlling device within the first predetermined timed interval, the appliance is caused to issue a status notification that the controlling device is in an inoperable state. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290998 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INFERRING SEAMLESS SERVICE PLAN OF VIDEO CONTENTS - Disclosed are an apparatus and method for inferring a service plan for seamlessly providing an IPTV service. The present invention proposes a context inference algorithm for performing multiple-criteria decision-making using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for context element evaluation through a context inference apparatus for providing a seamless IPTV service using a context awareness technology for recognizing device change and environmental change in a ubiquitous home networking environment including various types of information terminals. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290999 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR, BROADCAST RECEIVING DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an information processing method includes: acquiring, as a viewing history, contents of a program viewed by each of users; first retrieving, based on a viewing history of a target user among the users, a program corresponding to program preference of the target user, from a viewable program storage storing therein programs that are viewable; second retrieving, based on the viewing history of the target user and viewing histories of users other than the target user among the plurality of users, a similar user having program preference similar to the program preference of the target user, from the users other than the target user; third retrieving, based on a viewing history of the similar user, a program corresponding to the program preference of the similar user, from the viewable program storage; and providing one part or all of the programs retrieved by the first and second retrievings. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130298150 | COMMUNICATION SERVER, COMMUNICATION METHOD, MEMORY MEDIUM AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A communication server | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130305272 | PROCEDURE, APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR VIDEO ADDRESSABLE ADVERTISING - A procedure for selecting targeted content, and a computer program, apparatus, and system that operate in accordance with the procedure. The procedure includes monitoring a user's activity in a first type of provided service, and selecting content from a second type of provided service, based on the monitoring. In one example the first type of provided service is a data service, the second type of provided service is a video service, and the user's activity includes web browsing. Also in one example, the content includes advertising content, such as in video form, and such content is selected based on a user interest profile generated based on the user's activity. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130305273 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TELEVISION ADVERTISEMENT AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT - A system and methods to calculate ratings of television advertisements based on viewing data and to assess the effectiveness of the advertisements. In some embodiments, consumer viewing data is consolidated across a plurality of disparate channels through which content and advertisements are presented to viewers. Some of the channels may provide information directly to the system about which advertisements were presented to viewers. In some embodiments, the system may instead determine whether an advertisement was likely viewed based on scheduling data associated with the presentation of content and advertisements. The system may provide additional algorithms for rating advertisements based on the consolidated information. That is, the system may allow performance of advertisements to be compared against other advertisements across a desired population of viewers. Embodiments may further provide information for a graphical user interface to assess the ratings and results. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130312019 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT - Methods and systems are disclosed for audience measurement. An example method includes identifying at least one of a media device, an operation command, or a person in response to a voice command. The voice command is spoken by a user to control the media device. The example method includes collecting audience measurement data related to at least one of the media device, the person, or the user. The example method includes associating the at least one of the media device, the operation command, or the person with the audience measurement data. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130312020 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING FEEDBACK BASED ON MONITORING OF CHANNELS AT A CUSTOMER PREMISE - An approach for providing feedback based on monitoring of channels at a customer premise is described. A digital signal representing a plurality of channels transported over a media broadcast network is received at a set-top box apparatus. A determination of whether one of the plurality of channels satisfies a predetermined criterion relating to performance of the media broadcast network is performed. A network feedback signal based on the determination is generated, at the set-top box apparatus, for transmission to a network monitoring node of the media broadcast network. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130312021 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER PRODUCTS FOR VIDEO CALLING AND LIVE HELP VIA IPTV - Systems, methods and computer products for querying for an interactive assistant for communication over a network via the set-top box. Communications are initiated between a subscriber and an interactive assistant. A diagnostic data log is uploaded from the set-top box to the interactive assistant. Based on the communications between the subscriber an interactive assistant and the diagnostic data log, diagnostic protocols are executed within the set-top box to generate a diagnostic report. The interactive assistant provides feedback analytics via the set-top box based on the communications between the subscriber and the interactive assistant, the diagnostic data log and the diagnostic report. Firmware solutions are downloaded to the set-top box based on results from the diagnostic report. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130312022 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, EXTERNAL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHODS THEREOF AND DISPLAY SYSTEM - Provided are a display system, an image processing apparatus, and an external apparatus, and methods of controlling the same. The display system includes: a plurality of servers which provides a video content; a display apparatus which interacts with the plurality of servers, and displays the video content provided by a first server of the plurality of servers; and an external apparatus which stores therein interaction history information of the display apparatus with the first server as a result of an interaction of the display apparatus with the first server, and transmits the stored interaction history information to a second server of the plurality of servers to enable the second server to provide the display apparatus with the video content based on the interaction history information when the display apparatus interacts with the second server. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130326552 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR PROVIDING COMPANION SERVICES TO VIDEO - Methods and devices for providing companion services to video are described. In one example embodiment, the method includes: identifying text contained within a video; determining, by performing pattern matching, if the identified text in the video contains actionable text; and if the identified text in the video contains actionable text, providing access to one or more features based on the actionable text. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130332949 | BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A broadcast receiving apparatus which accumulates and stores a status value of a broadcast signal is provided. The broadcast receiving apparatus includes a signal receiver which receives a broadcast signal, a decoder which decodes the received broadcast signal, a signal detector which detects a signal status of at least one of the received broadcast signal and the decoded broadcast signal, and a storage unit which accumulates and stores a status value of the broadcast signal detected by the signal detector. Accordingly, the past signal status of the broadcast receiving apparatus can be easily recognized. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130332950 | METHOD AND EQUIPMENT FOR COLLECTING AND PROCESSING INFORMATION REPRESENTING EQUIPMENT OPERATING CONDITIONS - The invention relates to a method for communicating information relating to operating conditions of local equipment (STB), to remote equipment. The method according to the invention comprises: a step of measuring at least one value of a primitive parameter Dsk representing said operating conditions, and a step of processing said parameter using a calculation unit (CMEM, CPU) that can execute a plurality of calculation operations. The local equipment (STB), in line with the invention, can produce a multiplicity of data signals relating to variables representing operating conditions of said equipment on the basis of values of primitive parameters Dsk, without it being necessary to pre-define and physically implement a large number of complex functions as in prior art. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130339990 | APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a first information acquiring section acquiring location specification information which indicates content being viewed by a user and a location in the content specified by the user, a second information acquiring section acquiring, based on the location specification information, content-related information provided corresponding to the content for the location, and an action support information generating section generating action support information for the user by using the content-related information. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130339991 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CUSTOMIZING TELEVISION CONTENT - An intelligent television is provided that can collect viewer information for use by a rating service. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20140007150 | CROWD SOURCED, CONTENT AWARE SMARTER TELEVISION SYSTEMS | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140007151 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Targeting Advertisements | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140013345 | AGGREGATION-BASED METHODS FOR DETECTION AND CORRECTION OF TELEVISION VIEWERSHIP ABERRATIONS - Various of the disclosed embodiments contemplate television viewing behavior data collected from a plurality of television set top boxes by using aggregation to detect an excess or a deficit in viewership for a group of television set top boxes. In some embodiments, a group of set top boxes can be associated with a particular television service provider, cable television head-end, or data warehouse. Additionally, some embodiments can clean television viewing behavior data by detecting and correcting aberrant viewership in a time series, e.g. based on a weekly or an approximately monthly frequency. In some embodiments, the aberrant viewership can be detected by calculating a minimum expected number of viewers for a day and comparing it to the actual number of households that reported viewers for that day. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140020004 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EVALUATING VIDEO QUALITY - Embodiments of the present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for evaluating video quality, which relate to the field of communications technologies, and are invented for improving accuracy of evaluating quality of an IPTV service. The method includes: acquiring a channel video stream; acquiring a decoding feature parameter of a decoder, where the decoding feature parameter at least includes a decoding buffer capacity; acquiring a frame information loss ratio according to the decoding feature parameter, and acquiring mean opinion score-video MOS-V parameters according to the channel video stream; and acquiring a MOS-V value of the channel video stream according to the frame information loss ratio and the MOS-V parameters. The embodiments of the present invention are mainly applied to a technology for evaluating video quality. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140033240 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING VIEWER INTEREST IN CONTENT AND ADVERTISEMENTS - A method for assessing viewer interest in content and advertisements may include receiving an indication regarding a content playback mode change (e.g., a change from a skip or fast-forward mode to a pause or rewind mode) occurring during playing of a media content segment such as a television program or movie. The method then proceeds to associate the playback mode change with a sub-segment of the television program, such as an advertisement or commercial, and a level of interest of a user in the advertisement or commercial is determined based on the associated content playback mode change. An item, such as an advertisement or promotional offer can be selected to be presented to the user based on the determined level of interest of the user in the advertisement or commercial. Systems for assessing viewer interest in content and advertisements include devices and components configured to perform or enable such methods. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140033241 | Program Modeling Tool - Method, device, and non-transitory storage medium to receive peak viewership parameters that indicate one or more program channels to be modeled; query a device that stores viewership data based on the peak viewership parameters; determine a peak viewership for the one or more program channels; query another device that stores network configuration data pertaining to a program delivery network; obtain channel path information pertaining to the one or more program channels; generate peak channel delivery data based on the channel path information and the peak viewership data; and simulate, based on the peak channel delivery data, resource utilization of the program delivery network stemming from a provisioning of the one or more program channels according to a delivery channel format that is different from another delivery channel format that was used to deliver the one or more program channels to subscribers. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140033242 | VIDEO SERVICE ASSURANCE SYSTEMS AND METHODS IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - A computer-implemented method, a video service assurance system, and a wireless network with video service assurance provide analytics associated with video services in a network, such as Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless networks, and actionable recommendations to improve the video services. In particular, the computer-implemented method of video service assurance includes obtaining measurement data and statistics from at least one network element in a network related to a plurality of video streams thereon, performing data aggregation and analysis with the measurement data and statistics related to the video streams, and providing actionable recommendations for improvement of the video streams to the at least one network element based on the data aggregation and analysis. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140040931 | DYNAMIC CUSTOMIZATION AND MONETIZATION OF AUDIO-VISUAL CONTENT - Systems and methods for dynamic customization of audio-visual content are described. In some implementations, a process may include receiving at least one audio-visual core portion, receiving at least one selection signal indicative of a viewer preference, modifying the audio-visual core portion with at least one revised content portion in accordance with the at least one selection signal to create a dynamically customized audio-visual content, and outputting the dynamically-customized audio-visual content. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040932 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIEWING DYNAMICALLY CUSTOMIZED AUDIO-VISUAL CONTENT - Systems and methods for viewing dynamically customized audio-visual content are described. In some implementations, a process may include providing at least one selection signal indicative of a viewer preference, receiving a dynamically customized audio-visual content including an audio-visual core portion having at least one revised content portion customized in accordance with the at least one selection signal, displaying the dynamically-customized audio-visual content; and providing a consideration for the dynamically-customized audio-visual content. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040933 | NAVIGATION AWARE NEWS SERVICE - A mobile terminal simultaneously receives an interactive service, such as a betting service, and a web-based news service operating in conjunction with the interactive service across a wireless connection. Both services are simultaneously displayed in different windows on the same display of the mobile terminal. The user's selections, navigation of pages and other input in the interactive service are monitored and used to select related news items for a scrolling news frame. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140047467 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A SELF ADAPTIVE MULTI-USER PROGRAM GUIDE - A media access device such as, for example, a cable or satellite set top box (STB), a digital video recorder (DVR), a personal computer, and/or a digital media receivers automatically optimizes an order of content choices presented in a content listing, such as a program guide display, favorite channel display, and/or a recording listing display based on the past viewing and/or recording history of a current user. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140047468 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO COMMUNICATE AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT INFORMATION - Methods and apparatus to communicate audience measurement information are disclosed. An example method includes analyzing a plurality of media identifiers collected over a first period of time to identify a dominant one of the media identifiers for the first period of time; and communicating the dominant media identifier for the first period of time via a text-only messaging service to a storage facility. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140053175 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an information processing apparatus, including: storage configured to store a rarity level of each of a plurality of pieces of content, and access history of a user, the plurality of pieces of content being accessed by the user; and a controller configured to determine, based on the stored access history, rarity levels of a predetermined number or more of pieces of content, the pieces of content being accessed by the user in a predetermined unit time, to calculate a preference level of the user based on the determined rarity level, and to create information showing the calculated preference level. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140053176 | Data Reporting of Usage Statistics - A collection, aggregation and reporting of activities associated with applications of an Intelligent TV set is provided. Activates may include most used, least used, installed, available and removed. Periodically, a report is generated and sent to a receiver over a network. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140053177 | Programming User Behavior Reporting - Methods and systems for reporting user activity are provided. Sequentially numbering the reports allows for reports being sent at regular intervals to be associated with a timestamp, even if the system clock has not been set. Furthermore, the reporting period may default to an initial value, such as every 24 hours, but receive instructions to be reset to a different value. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140053178 | Report Database For Intelligent Television - An intelligent television is provided with a storage, such as a database, for a number of reports. As reports are created, and free space in the storage decreases, reports may be deleted. Reports may be deleted upon delivery to a server or deleted upon determining an older report exists. Optionally, one report, such as one containing first time data associated with an initial power-up of the television, may be preserved. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140053179 | CONTENT PROVIDER STATISTICS APPLICATION - An intelligent television is provided with reporting abilities. The intelligent television may report information regarding a number of applications installed on the intelligent television. Additionally, an indicia of applications installed and then de-installed may be maintained and reported such that the report includes removed applications. Once a report is created, it may then be stored in a data storage of the intelligent television and delivered to a server. Once successfully delivered, the oldest report may then be removed. Should the delivery of the report fail and free space fall below a threshold, the oldest report, as identified by a sequential or serial number, may then be removed. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140053180 | TRACKING USER BEHAVIOR VIA APPLICATION MONITORED CHANNEL CHANGING NOTIFICATIONS - An intelligent television and methods for user interaction between the intelligent television and the user are provided. In general, a user is provided with navigation, notification, and setup options which enable one or more functions associated with the intelligent television. The presentation of options is based on input received by the intelligent television. As a user provides input to the intelligent television via a remote control or other input device, the intelligent television is configured to interpret the input and provide interactive functionality in the form of content presented to the display of the intelligent television. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140053181 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO VERIFY CONSUMPTION OF PROGRAMMING CONTENT - Methods and apparatus to verify consumption of media content are disclosed herein. An example method includes populating a data structure stored at a media device with first identifying data associated with media received at the media device in connection with a first content stream and not presented by the media device in real time; determining whether an audience member was exposed to the media in a time-shifted manner by comparing the first identifying data of the data structure stored at the media device to second identifying data obtained from a second content stream received at the media device subsequent to the first content stream; and when the first and second identifying data match, verifying time-shifted exposure of the audience member to the media by sending an index identifier assigned to the media to a data collection facility. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140059578 | APPLICATIONS GENERATING STATISTICS FOR USER BEHAVIOR - An architecture to assemble and manage usage information and populate one or more panels in an intelligent TV. The architecture includes a usage statistics provider module adapted to assemble one or more of usage information and installation information and query the one or more of usage information and installation information to populate one or more of icons and information in a view or panel on the intelligent TV. The architecture further includes a panel manager adapted to assemble the one or more of icons and information into a requested view. A display controller displays the view on a display of the intelligent TV. A silo manager sorts information in at least one panel subcategory based at least on the one or more of usage information and installation information, where the at least one subpanel panel includes a plurality of icons each representing an app or content. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140059579 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROJECTING VIEWERSHIP DATA - Various systems and methods for generating and augmenting viewership datasets are disclosed. In particular, some embodiments prepare the datasets for further analysis by supplementing missing information based upon available data. The system may organize viewership data from disparate formats into a unified form to facilitate analysis and projection of non-reporting device data. In some embodiments, the projections may scale existing cumulative determinations based on information regarding the presence and character of non-reporting devices in different geographic markets. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140068646 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING DIGITAL SERVICE SIGNAL - An apparatus of processing a digital service signals and a method thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes a PDI module configured to receive a PDI table, wherein the PDI table includes at least one question element having attributes of a PDI question, wherein the PDI table further includes a table Id field identifying the PDI table, a table version field indicating a version of the PDI table and a time field indicating a date and a time of the most recent change to the PDI question and extract the PDI question from the at least one question element, wherein each of the at least one question element has a different type, a PDI answer module configured to receive a PDI answer according to the extracted PDI question, a filtering module configured to receive a filtering criteria information and filter contents of the digital service signal by comparing the filtering criteria information against the received the PDI answer and a content storing module configured to download the filtered contents, wherein the type of the at least one question element indicates a type for the PDI question with one of an integer answer, a Boolean answer, a selection answer, a text answer and an answer with no PDI question. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140068647 | METHOD OF PROVIDING PROGRAM MONITORING INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING SYSTEM USING THE SAME - A method of providing program monitoring information and a broadcasting system using the same are provided, which can inform a viewer of program change circumstances made by other people. A user terminal of the broadcasting system may include a display unit configured to display a particular program; and a monitoring information manager unit configured to display program monitoring information through the display unit. Here, the program monitoring information includes the program change information of at least one other terminal different from the user terminal. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140075464 | DATA USAGE MONITORING - Systems and methods for capturing and monitoring the health, safety, and/or activity of a user are described. In one aspect, the system generates a data usage pattern for the user and monitors the user's current data usage activity to detect data usage deviations from the user's usage pattern. When a deviation is detected, the system may send an alert message to the user or another user indicating that an anomaly may have occurred, permitting the user or another user to respond to the anomaly. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140075465 | TIME VARYING EVALUATION OF MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - Methods, systems, devices and computer program products are provided to facilitate enhanced use and interaction with multimedia content that is based on a time-varying evaluation of the multimedia content. While a content is being presented on a first device, timing information identifying temporal locations of content segments are extracted and transmitted to a database along with a user's evaluation feedback of the multimedia content. The user then receives a response corresponding to feedback provided by a plurality of consumers of the multimedia content on a segment-by-segment basis. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140082646 | Using OCR to Detect Currently Playing Television Programs - Features of various implementations are used to enable determining what a particular consumer is watching on television in order to deliver matched functionality, content and/or services, as a part of an interactive television suite of technologies. In some implementations, the process of determining what a particular consumer is watching is enabled so that communication between the primary set-top box and a supplemental set-top box and/or television integrated device is reduced, thereby avoiding the need for one or more provider specific APIs. For example, one aspect of the disclosure is a computer-implemented method of identifying a media program by capturing display data from the media program, and extracting text from the display data in response to determining that the display data includes the text overlay, wherein the extracted text is associated with the media program. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140082647 | Identification and Presentation of Internet-Accessible Content Associated with Currently Playing Television Programs - Features of various implementations are used to enable identifying and presenting, in real time, Internet-accessible and/or Internet-based functionality, content and/or services associated with a particular television program concurrently playing on a television or display, as a part of an interactive television suite of technologies. In some implementations, the process of identifying Internet-accessible and/or Internet-based functionality, content and/or services associated with a particular television program is enabled to reduce communication between a primary set-top box and a supplemental set-top box and/or television integrated device, thereby reducing the need for one or more provider specific APIs. For example, one aspect of the disclosure is a computer-implemented method of identifying a media program by capturing display data from the media program, and extracting text from the display data in response to determining that the display data includes the text overlay, wherein the extracted text is associated with the media program. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140082648 | DETERMINATION OF ADVERTISEMENT IMPACT - Media content may include one or more advertisements for a product or a company, and such an advertisement may display a visual object (e.g., a logo) of an advertiser. An advertisement impact machine accesses media content, where the media content includes a frame within which the visual object is depicted. The advertisement impact machine accesses a viewer count that represents a number of viewers of the media content. The advertisement impact machine determines a duration during which the visual object is presented within the media content. The advertisement impact machine determines an impact factor based on the duration and on the viewer count. The impact factor may then be provided by the advertisement impact machine as a numerical score indicating a degree of effectiveness of an advertisement that includes the visual object within the media content. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140082649 | ESTIMATION APPARATUS, ESTIMATION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An object is to provide an apparatus that accurately estimates an association between content and a user who performed an operation on the content. The apparatus includes: a first association information generation unit that generates first association information in which content information subjected to an operation and a user who performed the operation are associated; a learning unit that generates learnt information for associating a given user with content likely to be operated by the given user by using the first association information; an estimation unit that estimates a user by using unidentified content information for which the user cannot be identified and the learnt information; and a second association information generation unit that generates second association information in which the unidentified content information and the estimated user are associated. The learning unit updates the learnt information by preferentially using the first association information over the second association information. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140089956 | ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY ENGINE - A method includes receiving first information identifying profile information associated with a customer, habit information associated with the customer's television viewing habits, or Internet usage information associated with the customer. The method also includes receiving preference information from the customer, wherein the preference information identifies advertisements or types of advertisements that the customer would like to view or would not like to view. The method further includes identifying advertisements based on the received first information and the received preference information, inserting, by a service provider, the identified advertisements in a television programming data stream and providing the identified advertisements to the customer. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089957 | DYNAMIC ALLOCATION OF ADVERTISING - A method, apparatus and system for the dynamic allocation of advertising content includes tracking user interaction with media content and scheduling a presentation of advertising content based on the tracked user interaction. In one instance, tracking user interaction with media content includes at least one of determining a frequency with which a user switches between avail able programming channels and determining a user preference for an advertising content format or advertised products. In a case in which a frequency with which a user switches between available programming channels is tracked, advertising content is scheduled to be presented at a time during which a user is most likely to be viewing a particular channel and as such, to view the advertising content. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140101682 | TELEVISION AUTO-TUNE BASED ON HABITUAL VIEWING BEHAVIORS - An auto-channel device (ACD) corresponds to a television viewing device (TVD) wherein the ACD collects information regarding the channels or programs viewed on the TVD for analysis and processing to determine the specific television programming and/or channel most likely to be watched during particular time periods corresponding to the TVD in order to automatically tune the TVD accordingly. The TVD may be auto-tuned to a specific channel when the TVD first enters an active state based on the analysis results and the time the TVD enters the active state. Likewise, the TVD may also be auto-tuned to a new channel corresponding to the end of first program on a first channel and the commencement of a second program on a second channel again based on the analysis results and current time. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140101683 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING A TELEVISION CHANNEL CHANGE EVENT - A method for detecting an event indicative of a change of TV channel by a viewer comprises analyzing one or more video frames displayed on the TV screen to identify a change which is associated with a TV channel change. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140101684 | METHOD, SYSTEM, FACILITY, AND HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION DEVICE FOR ACQUISITION OF AUDIENCE DATA OF DIGITAL TELEVISION - A method for acquisition of audience rating data of digital television. The method includes: 1) collecting audience information by an acquisition system of audience rating data of digital television, the audience information including individual identification of audiences and individual attribute information corresponding to the individual identification; 2) monitoring data acquisition signals by the acquisition system, collecting appropriate individual identification and individual rating information according to the instructions of the data acquisition signals; and 3) inquiring the individual attribute information of the audiences according to the individual identification, and combining the collected individual rating information and corresponding individual attribute information thereof as a set of original audience rating data for analysis. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140101685 | CONTINUOUS OPTIMIZATION OF ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS BASED ON REAL TIME TRACKING - A processing device tracks sales metrics during an advertisement campaign for a product or service and compares the sales metrics to sales goals. In response to determining that the one or more sales metrics fall short of the one or more sales goals by at least a threshold amount, the processing device increases a degree of targetedness for the advertisement campaign. In response to determining that the one or more sales metrics surpass the one or more sales goals by at least the threshold amount, the processing device decreases the degree of targetedness for the advertisement campaign. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140101686 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING ADVERTISER RETURN ON INVESTMENT USING SET TOP BOX DATA - A processing device receives set-top box data, sales data, and advertising data. The processing device associates set-top boxes from the set-top box data with viewers and calculates advertising exposure events for advertisements. The processing device further calculates, for each viewer, an advertising weight as a function of number of exposures of the advertisement as applied to the viewer based on the advertising exposure events. The processing device further calculates, for each viewer, a score representing a degree-of-targetedness between an advertisement campaign and the viewer. The processing device manages the advertisement campaign based on the advertising weight and the degree-of-targetedness. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140101687 | Imprint Client Statistical Filtering - A method, system API and computer product for adapting reverse data channel (RDC) utilization by selectively restricting the reporting of statistics data from client devices using a client-side filter adapted in response to configuration data from a file or other source file. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140109123 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING ADVERTISING - A system that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining identified impressions that are detected from consumption data collected from a group of media processors where the identified impressions represent viewing of selected content and where the consumption data indicates channel tuning events at the group of media processors including changing of channels, applying a ridge regression analysis to the identified impressions to determine a predicted number of target impressions per advertisement slot, and generating a media plan based on a ratio of an advertisement slot cost to the predicted number of target impressions per advertisement slot. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140109124 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FORECASTING AND MEASUREMENT OF MEDIA VIEWERSHIP USING A COMBINATION OF DATA SETS - Future media viewership is forecast based on time ordered analysis of historical viewership information from an individual or combination of a plurality of data sets. Forecast models having coefficients derived from comparisons of time series representations of data sets across a plurality of time periods and data sources join together disparate data sets. Individual data sets from disparate data sources may be compared to identify possible untrustworthy data or data that requires further investigation. Organizing viewership information in a time series allows for imputing missing data in a respective data set. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140109125 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME - A method may be provided for displaying an image display apparatus. Channels may be changed on the image display apparatus based on a user channel change command. A channel change state may be determined, and a determination may be made when a total number of channels satisfies a prescribed criterion. Information regarding recommended content may be displayed when the determined number of channel changes satisfies the prescribed criterion. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140115616 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR USING AUDIENCE MEMBER BEHAVIOR INFORMATION TO DETERMINE COMPLIANCE WITH AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM USAGE REQUIREMENTS - Example methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture determine compliance with usage guidelines of an audience measurement system. Initially, location information associated with an audience member is obtained. It is then determined whether the audience member is in compliance with the usage guidelines based on the location information. Media monitoring information corresponding to the location information is then tagged as non-compliant if the audience member is not in compliance with the usage guidelines. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140115617 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR USING AUDIENCE MEMBER BEHAVIOR INFORMATION TO DETERMINE COMPLIANCE WITH AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM USAGE REQUIREMENTS - Example methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture determine compliance with usage guidelines of an audience measurement system. Initially, location information associated with an audience member is obtained. It is then determined whether the audience member is in compliance with the usage guidelines based on the location information. Media monitoring information corresponding to the location information is then tagged as non-compliant if the audience member is not in compliance with the usage guidelines. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140123163 | MANAGING DISPLAY OF CONTENT IN A CONTENT FEED - A method and a computer program product are disclosed for managing the display of content from a content feed. In one embodiment, a content feed includes a dynamically-generated set of content items electronically fed to one or more device. A priority content item is identified along with a plurality of other content items related by subject matter to each other and to the priority content item. A display status of the priority content item is then monitored, indicating whether the priority content item has been displayed for a user. The visibility of the related content items on the one or more device is controlled according to the display status of the priority content item. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140123164 | MANAGING DISPLAY OF CONTENT IN A CONTENT FEED - A method includes generating a content feed, wherein the content feed includes a dynamically-generated set of content items electronically fed to one or more device for selectively displaying on the one or more device. A priority content item and a plurality of related content items in the content feed are identified, wherein the plurality of related content items include subject matter that is common with the priority content item. A display status of the priority content item is monitored indicating whether the priority content item has been displayed for a user. The visibility of the related content items on the one or more device is then controlled according to the display status of the priority content item. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140123165 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTEXT-AWARE RECOMMENDATION - A context aware recommendation system and method for recommending at least one program to the user responsive to dynamically varying user preferences, learned user behavior and contextual information is described. The recommended program is a television program, radio program or music file. The system and method further alert the user about change in user's preferences and guides the user to change stated preferences. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140130073 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING MEDIA BASED ON VIEWER BEHAVIOR - Methods, systems and devices are provided for communicating multimedia content over a service provider network. A network server may receive an audio-video stream from a content provider server, relaying the audio-video stream to a receiver device via the service provider network, receive an operating mode notification identifying a user behavior from the receiver device, and ceasing the relaying of the audio-video stream to the receiver device based on the user behavior. The network server may also alter the audio-video stream based on the received operating mode notification and send the altered audio-video stream to the receiver device via the service provider network. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140130074 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DELIVERING VIDEO CONTENT - A method includes determining a data capacity of a first network device of a plurality of network devices that provide content to a set-top box device. In response to the data capacity satisfying a first threshold and a second threshold, sending a first command to the first network device. The first command instructs the first network device to store media content associated with a particular channel corresponding to a predicted channel change request at the first network device. In response to the data capacity satisfying the first threshold and failing to satisfy the second threshold, sending a second command to the first network device and sending a third command to a second network device. The third command instructs the second network device to store the media content associated with the particular channel. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140130075 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM THEREOF, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus is provided in which a first record control means controls record of user presence time information indicating time in which a user was present within a predetermined range around a display means displaying content, based on an output from a sensor detecting the user; a second record control means controls record of operation history information including content specifying information for specifying the content as target of operation, operation content information for indicating content of operation related to display of the content by the user, and operation time information for indicating time of the operation; and an audience-quality constituent item calculation means calculates an audience-quality constituent item constituting audience quality which indicates quality of content watched by the user, based on the recorded user presence time information and operation history information. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140137145 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HANDLING STREAMING MEDIA - A system for handling streaming media at a customer premises includes a compute engine having a customer network interface device port and a customer premises equipment port, for installation between a customer network interface device and video destination customer premises equipment. The compute engine includes a processing module configured for receiving an incoming packet stream through the network interface device port, processing the incoming packet stream to generate stream data, forwarding the stream data through the network interface device port, and forwarding the incoming packet stream through the customer premises equipment port. Particular embodiments monitor and dynamically repair the incoming stream. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140150005 | CONTENT RECOMMENDATION PRE-FILTERING - Techniques and mechanisms described herein facilitate the performance of content recommendation pre-filtering. According to various embodiments, information identifying one or more viewing events or actions detected in association with a designated content management account at a media system may be received. The designated content management account may provide access to a plurality of media content items via the media system. The designated content management account may be associated with a viewing profile. The viewing profile may designate one or more of the plurality of media content items for recommendation in association with the designated content management account. The viewing profile may also designate a pattern of viewing activity for recommending the designated media content items. When the identified viewing events or actions match the designated pattern of viewing activity, a message including an instruction for recommending the designated media content items for presentation may be transmitted to the client machine. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140157297 | Marketing Method and Computer System thereof for Cloud System - A marketing method for combining a plurality of marketing information and a cloud system including a display device, a network server and a mobile device is disclosed. The marketing method includes obtaining a recognition information corresponding to at least a marketing information to process a video information to be a processed video information, installing an application software in the mobile device, displaying the processed video information on the display device, utilizing the application software and a detection module of the mobile device to obtain the recognition information while displaying the processed video information, and utilizing the network server to obtain a search result corresponding to the marketing information according to the recognition information. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140157298 | INTERNET PROTOCOL TELEVISION STREAMING METHODS AND APPARATUS - A system, methods, and apparatus for Internet Protocol television streaming are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a request in a content delivery network from a client device to receive television programming from a particular television service provider among a plurality of television service providers. The method also includes allocating for the client device a remote access point in the content delivery network connected to a data feed from the television service provider and a portion of a controller connected to the remote access point configured to encrypt a data stream carrying encoded television service from the television service provider. The method further includes provisioning a secure communication channel between the allocated portion of the controller and a decryption processor connected to the client device and streaming the encrypted data stream carrying the television service from the particular television service provider to the client device via the secure communication channel. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140157299 | Systems and Methods for Video-Level Reporting - Systems and methods are provided for reporting advertisement performance at the video level. The video-level reporting system can include an ad server receiving requests from a user to view a video. The ad server transfers the request to an application programming interface for processing the request. The video-level reporting system can also include a storage and reporting module that stores the requested video and a corresponding advertisement, a video capture module for analyzing the user requested video, an analytics module for identifying user events and analyzing the advertisement performance based on the events, and an indexing module for indexing the requested videos. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140165085 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO ESTIMATE END-TO-END VIDEO FRAME DELAYS - System and method to calculate video frame delay in a video stream received by a telecommunications endpoint, the method including: locating reference features characteristic of content in the received video stream; calculating, by use of a processor, reduced reference features from the located reference features; receiving reduced reference features of a transmitted video stream, the transmitted video stream corresponding to the received video stream; calculating, by use of a processor, a received trajectory of the reduced reference features from the received video stream; calculating, by use of a processor, a transmitted trajectory of the reduced reference features from the transmitted video stream; and calculating, by use of a processor, video frame delay as a time shift between the received trajectory and the transmitted trajectory. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140165086 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING USER GENERATED VIDEO REVIEWS - Methods and systems for content aggregation and distribution are described. Video content may be received from a plurality of sources. The video content may be associated with metadata identifying items included within the video content. A video player may be provided which enables video content to be displayed on a user terminal, and a control may be provided enabling the user to quickly navigate to specific portions of the video content. A viewer of the video content may, in turn, author and provide additional video content. The video player may be embeddable. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140173644 | INTERACTIVE CELEBRITY PORTAL AND METHODS - A celebrity portal system is disclosed. The celebrity portal system may comprise a celebrity content management engine for receiving first media content based on particular real-time content generated by a particular celebrity; a content publication engine for assisting in publishing second media content based on the first media content to a particular celebrity channel; a celebrity channel selection engine for assisting in presenting a channel guide to a set of celebrity channels including the particular celebrity channel; and a bookkeeping engine for tracking revenue generated by each of the celebrity channels. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140173645 | Methods and Apparatus For detecting space-shifted media associated with a digital recording/playback device - Methods and apparatus for detecting space-shifted media content associated with a digital recording/playback device are disclosed. An example method for detecting space-shifted media content includes detecting, at a router, a data packet transmitted from a first media device of a home network to a second media device of the home network; and determining, at the router, that media associated with the data packet is space-shifted when the data packet comprises at least one of media data or command data. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140181849 | System and Method for Utilizing Set-top Box Testing in Television Distribution Network - Novel tools and techniques to enable data to be tested on subscriber set-top boxes. Some solutions can connect a sever with a group of subscriber set-top boxes through a television distribution network. In some cases, a plurality of set-top boxes are selected, and at least one set-top box is determined to be inactive. In some cases, data are loaded and tested on the inactive set-top. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140181850 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR BANDWIDTH CONSERVATION - Aspects of bandwidth conservation include accumulating, in a memory device, inputs received over time and identifying a historical pattern from the inputs. The historical pattern includes a channel change operation when data streamed over a network and received is a commercial. Aspects also include determining whether a next input is expected for currently streamed data. The determining is in response to the historical pattern and whether the currently streamed data is commercial-free content. Aspects further include predicting that the user is not present at an electronic device if the next input to the user interface is expected and is not received, predicting that the user is present and the next input is not expected if the currently streamed data is the commercial-free content, and conserving bandwidth, with respect to the currently streamed data, in response to predicting that the user is not present at the electronic device. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140189721 | INTELLIGENT RECORDING - An intelligent recording collects data associated with a user's viewing habit of live program contents and determines a viewing pattern by analyzing the collected data. The viewing pattern is used to identify a scheduled program content as a candidate for automatic recording, the identified scheduled program content having fallen within the determined viewing pattern. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140189722 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UTILITY SERVICE CONSUMPTION CONTROL - An approach for adjusting the consumption of utility services based on determined usage trends includes collecting utility data, at a customer premise equipment, associated with consumption of a utility service at a customer premise, forwarding the collected utility data from the customer premise equipment to a service provider network to determine a usage trend in the consumption of the utility service, and adjusting the consumption of the utility service based on the determined usage trend and a user specified usage criterion. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140189723 | METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR REPORTING INTERNET PROTOCOL TELEVISION RELATED DATA COLLECTED FROM APPLICATION AND DEVICE DATA - Methods and computer program products for reporting application and device data retrieved from within an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) network environment are provided. IPTV system usage data is retrieved from at least one IPTV device and normalized into a predetermined data format. The IPTV system usage data is parsed according to predetermined criteria. The parsed IPTV system usage data is delivered to a dedicated data mart for storage, the IPTV system usage data that is stored within at least one dedicated data mart is accessed, and the IPTV system usage data that is stored at the at least one dedicated data mart is used to generate a report. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140196065 | MOBILE VIDEO STREAMING ENHANCEMENT IN A NETWORK CODING-CAPABLE WIRELESS NETWORK - A method of mobile video streaming according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes three parts. The first part is for AP to measure the information of all clients such as ETX (Expected Transmission count metric) and RSSI (Receive Signal Strength Indicator) periodically for long-term channel quality and mobility patterns of each client. In the second part, AP estimates the buffer status, short-term channel quality, and mobility detection of each client based on only feedback from the target client and first part result. And lastly, AP performs a practical online scheduling to select the best network code set satisfying high Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR), a standard metric of video quality, during a GoP (Group of Picture) at all clients based on I-frame priority. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140196066 | Data Highlighting and Extraction - We are facing an explosion in availability of online content, in particular accessing audio, video, and other data is considered to be driving the expansion of the Internet to accommodate access needs. However, time availability for accessing such data remains constrained and it is becoming more imperative that a technology be utilized to package the data for example, as a Collective Cut, to facilitate its consumption by pre-identifying portions of the data that are expected to be interesting to a consumer. Such packaging has many possibilities. For example, in the audio context, audio data could be presented to a consumer with specific portions of an audio presentation highlighted as the best portions to listen to if the consumer lacks sufficient time to listen to the entire presentation. In the video context, video highlights for a movie or other consumable data may be provided, allowing a consumer to electively skip through the highlights if there is insufficient time and/or interest in viewing the entire presentation. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140196067 | UNIVERSAL MULTIPLEXER FOR CONTENT CHANNELS VIA INJECTING - An interface for a single network point that provides channels of content and services to a subscribing user while maintaining the functionality of the channels of content as separate entities. Channels of content and services include, but are not limited to audio and video via cable and broadcast over the air, satellite broadcasts, cell phone service, GPS, Internet, and voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). Content based on context is injected via a switching device between a content provider device, for example cable provider set top box and a projection unit, for example TV. Remote control devices such as a smart phone or mobile communication device, provide a management function and user control with an application resident on the remote control device. A remote control may be configured to select a content channel, store user selection states, project or display computer content onto a TV for web browsing. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140196068 | System and Method for Providing Program Recommendations Through Multimedia Searching Based on Established Viewer Preferences - A system and method is disclosed for processing viewer profiles and program metadata from a number of sources to provide viewing suggestions and recommendations to one or more viewers. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140196069 | CONTENT RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method for making a content recommendation to at least one user commences by first establishing a location for the at least one user. Thereafter a check occurs to determine which devices are available to the at least one user to use (e.g., consume) the content at the location. Next, the content available to the at least one user is determined based on at least the user's location and available devices available to the at least one user. A content recommendation is then made among the available content based on at least one attribute of the at least one user. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140201768 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECORDING AND ANALYZING AUDIENCE INFORMATION OF AUDIO/VIDEO PROGRAM - A method for recording and analyzing audience information of an audio/video program is provided. The method includes receiving at least one user information from at least one online social service, at least one audio/video capture information from at least one terminal device associated with the at least one user information, and at least one social behavior information related to the at least one audio/video capture information from the at least one online social service. The method includes establishing a relationship between the at least one user information, the at least one audio/video capture information, and the at least one social behavior information, and recording the relationship and the foregoing information into an audience information database. The method includes when receiving a querying command, generating a querying result of qualitative rating according to at least one reference information acquired from the audience information database in accordance with the querying command. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140201769 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING VIDEO SEGMENTS FOR DISPLAYING CONTEXTUALLY RELEVANT CONTENT - A system and method for the identification of specific video segments in a video program, such as certain TV commercials, is presented. A means is described for an accelerated identification of the video segment of interest in conjunction with a means to communicate said information to a process in a remote television system such that the remote television system can anticipate the future start of said video segment of interest and display contextually related material in close proximity to the start of said video segment. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140201770 | METHODS FOR ANALYZING AND COMPRESSING MULTIPLE IMAGES - Systems, methods, and media for providing an advertisement in correspondence with a radio broadcast are provided. A radio broadcast receiver receives the radio broadcast. An audio output outputs the radio broadcast as an audio signal. A display controller determines an advertisement for display in correspondence with the audio signal. A display is configured to display the advertisement, and a processor controls a movement within the advertisement during the display of the advertisement on the display. The movement is controlled in accordance with a speed of motion determined by the processor. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140208341 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MAINTAIN AUDIENCE PRIVACY WHILE DETERMINING VIEWING OF VIDEO-ON-DEMAND PROGRAMS - Methods and apparatus to maintain audience privacy while determining viewing of video-on-demand (VOD) programs are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein comprises obtaining subscriber metering data from a site metering device monitoring presentation of VOD content at a first subscriber site, obtaining server metering data from a VOD server, the server metering data including identification information for a plurality of subscriber sites to identify particular VOD content provided uniquely to each of the subscriber sites, the identification information manipulated to preserve anonymity of the plurality of subscriber sites, manipulating at least a portion of the subscriber metering data to determine a first manipulated identifier to identify the first subscriber site, and using the first manipulated identifier to cross-reference the manipulated identification information included in the server metering data to merge the subscriber metering data and the portion of the server metering data uniquely associated with the first subscriber site. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140215506 | TIME CONTEXT WEIGHTED CONTENT RECOMMENDATION - Techniques and mechanisms described herein facilitate the performance of time context weighted content recommendation. According to various embodiments, information identifying one or more viewing events or actions detected in association with a designated content management account at a media system may be received. The one or more viewing events or actions may have associated therewith time information indicating a time at which the one or more viewing events or actions occurred. The designated content management account may provide access to a plurality of media content items via the media system. The designated content management account may be associated with a time context viewing profile. The time context viewing profile designating one or more of the plurality of media content items for recommendation in association with the designated content management account. The time context viewing profile may also designate a time context for recommending the designated media content items. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140215507 | PERSONALIZED PASSIVE CONTENT DELIVERY - Various embodiments are directed to a media processing device that can create a personalized passive viewing experience for a user. A personalization engine may determine viewer preferences based on multiple factors including past viewing behavior, web-browsing history, calendar event topics, and email data topics. The viewer preferences may then be formed into a user profile. A content aggregator component may then search multiple content sources for content compatible with the user profile. The content aggregator component may save found content or pointers to the content for later reference. The personalization engine may organize the saved content into a series of individual content items which may be presented on a display. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140223465 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USER MONITORING AND INTENT DETERMINATION - Sensing interfaces associated with a home entertainment system are used to automate a system response to events which occur in a viewing area associated with the home entertainment system. Data derived from such sensing interfaces may also be used to enhance the response readiness of one or more system components. Still further, user presence data derived from such sensing interfaces may be used to capture and report user viewing habits and/or preferences. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140223466 | Method and Apparatus for Recommending Video from Video Library - A method for recommending a video from a video library, and the method includes obtaining a user session composed of unrestricted content; analyzing semantics of the user session; according to the semantics of the user session, selecting subtitles that match the semantics of the user session from subtitles included in the video library, where the subtitles are used to answer the user session; from the video library, obtaining a video clip corresponding to the subtitles used to answer the user session; and presenting the video clip or sending the video clip so that a receiver can present the video clip. The embodiments of the present invention fulfill the objective of recommending a video to a user in a smart and personalized manner. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140237498 | CROSS PLATFORM CONTENT EXPOSURE TRACKING - A system for tracking how often content items are accessed by devices across multiple platforms is described. The content items may comprise advertisements. When a device accesses a content item, the device may detect the presence of a tag included with the content item. Based on the tag, the device may send a message to a computing device indicating that the content item was accessed. The computing device may accumulate the received messages and generate a report indicating the amount of exposure of various content items across various platforms and demographics. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140245336 | FAVORITE MEDIA PROGRAM SCENES SYSTEMS AND METHODS - An exemplary method includes a media program distribution service system 1) receiving data representative of a plurality of scene tags specifying one or more media program scenes tagged by a plurality of end users of a media program distribution service, 2) aggregating the plurality of scene tags, 3) determining, based on a favorite scenes determination heuristic and the aggregate scene tags, a set of one or more favorite scenes that are most popular among the plurality of end users of the media program distribution service, and 4) providing, based on the determined set of one or more favorite scenes, a favorite scene based feature of the media program distribution service. Corresponding systems and methods are also disclosed. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140250448 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR REDUCING SPILLOVER BY MEASURING A CREST FACTOR - Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for reducing spillover in a media monitoring system are disclosed. An example method includes identifying media associated with media monitoring data. The media monitoring data is received from a first meter associated with a first media presentation device. The example method includes identifying an expected crest factor associated with the media. The example method includes comparing the expected crest factor to a received crest factor to determine if spillover occurred. The received crest factor is received from the first meter. The example method includes crediting the media as a media exposure if spillover did not occur. | 09-04-2014 |
| 20140259037 | PREDICTED VIDEO CONTENT AGGREGATION - Video content from different media sources can be configured to be rendered via a personalized channel. The video content and media sources can be rendered to one or more mobile devices at different times with different content and/or at the same time based on user profile data. Video content from the media sources can be streamed via the personalized channel and selected from among a set of predicted video content. The video content is predicted to be content that the viewer desires to view at a particular scheduled data/time based on the user profile, which comprises a set of user preferences and user behavioral data. The predictions are stored and presented in various ways according to a prediction grid that follows a time line. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140259038 | DEMOGRAPHIC PREDICTION CHANNEL - Video content is identified by a source component via a processor from a plurality of media sources comprising at least two of a wireless broadcast media channel, a web site, a web data feed, and/or a wired broadcast channel for communication via a personalized video channel. A demographic component is configured to classify a user device in a demographic class based on demographic data. A set of predicted video content is generated from the video content of the plurality of media sources based on the demographic data with a prediction component. A streaming component is configured to communicate the set of predicted video content from the plurality of media sources to a mobile component via the personalized video channel and re-configure the personalized video channel to communicate, at different times, the video content identified from different media sources of the plurality of media sources. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140259039 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR REDUCING SPILLOVER BY DETECTING SIGNAL DISTORTION - Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for reducing spillover in a media monitoring system are disclosed. An example method includes identifying media associated with media monitoring data. The media monitoring data is received from a first meter associated with a first media presentation device. The example method includes identifying an expected frequency spectrum associated with the media. The example method includes comparing the expected frequency spectrum to an actual frequency spectrum collected from the media by the first meter to determine if spillover occurred. The example method includes crediting the media as a media exposure if spillover did not occur. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140259040 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR DEDUCING A VIEWING HOUSEHOLD MEMBER PROFILE - Disclosed is a method and apparatus for deducing a viewing household member profile. According to the method and apparatus, a viewing pattern of a general viewing household is analyzed based on viewer group classification criteria generated using the standard household member profile, and thus the member profile of the viewing household may be deduced and the deduced profile may be provided, thereby effectively providing advertisements corresponding to the inclination of viewing household members. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140282652 | Advertisement Tracking - A display device which shows content with advertisement portions may monitor user actions to determine the efficacy of the advertisement. During the presentation of an advertisement, actions of a user may take are monitored, such as, changing the audio level of the advertisement during play, obstructing the advertisement, or changing the z-order of the window containing the advertisement, and this information may be reported to determine the efficacy of the advertisement. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140282653 | Selective Interactivity - A system may selectively deliver interactive portions of a piece of content, based for example on a recipient user's historical tendency to use interactive portions of prior content. Multiple levels of interactivity may be defined for a given piece of content, such as an advertisement, and different users may receive different levels of interactivity based on how much they use interactive features. Some users may receive no interactive features at all, while others may receive the interactive features, and despite the fact that all of the users' devices may be perfectly capable of processing the interactive features for the user. The omission from transmission may conserve bandwidth and transmission resources. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140282654 | Method of Metering Video Playback - A method of metering playback of videos in a video library includes sending a message to continue playback of a video and determining whether a playback amount of time has been exhausted. The method includes the further step of sending a message to interrupt playback of the video if the playback amount has been exhausted. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140282655 | System and method for targeted mobile ad delivery based on consumer TV programming viewing habits - The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for gathering analytical information on TV viewers to provide targeted ads on mobile devices. SDKs are provided that allows for the capture of viewers' TV watching habits through their personal electronic devices. The TV watching habits are analyzed and stored to create user profiles. Based on these user profiles, highly relevant and targeted ads are matched and delivered to individual users. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140282656 | PERSONALIZED VIDEO CHANNEL CONTROL - Video content is identified by a source component via a processor from a plurality of media sources. The media sources can comprise a wireless broadcast media channel, a web site, a web data feed, and/or a wired broadcast channel for communication via a personalized video channel. A profile component can determine user profile data that includes user preferences associated with a first client device for the video content and the plurality of media sources. A control component can generate a set of viewing controls associated with the user profile data that control transmission of the video content via the personalized video channel. A streaming component is configured to communicate the set of predicted video content from the plurality of media sources to a mobile component via the personalized video channel based on the set of viewing controls and the user profile data. The personalized video channel can be re-configured to communicate, at different times, the video content identified from different media sources of the plurality of media sources. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140282657 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC CONTENT RECOGNITION (ACR) INTEGRATION FOR SMARTTVS AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICES - A second screen communication device that is paired with an automatic content recognition (ACR) enabled display communication device launches an interactive application in response to an invitation cue generated and presented by the ACR-enabled display communication device while the ACR-enabled display communication device is displaying linear broadcast content. The linear broadcast content is a non-IP based broadcast content. The interactive application launched on the second screen communication device enables interaction with interactive content displayed by a user interface on the second screen communication device based on the invitation cue. The second screen communication device may generate one or more control elements that are utilized to control the interaction with the interactive content. The displaying of IP-based digital stream content corresponding to the linear broadcast content on the automatic content recognition enabled display may be resumed on the ACR enabled communication device utilizing the generated one or more control elements. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140282658 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC CONTENT RECOGNITION (ACR) BASED BROADCAST SYNCHRONIZATION - An automatic content recognition (ACR) enabled display communication device that is operable to receive and consume content from a linear feed and a corresponding IP-based feed. The linear feed and the IP-based feed includes one or more content identifiers that identify similar content within the linear feed and the IP-based feed and also includes one or more corresponding automatic content recognition triggers. The ACR-enabled display communication device determines a first content identifier that is associated with a first content in the linear feed that is being consumed and requests IP segments in the IP-based feed that corresponds to the determined first content identifier and switches from consuming content in the linear feed to consuming content in the requested IP segments. The ACR-enabled display communication device stores the determined first content identifier and receives the requested IP segments from a remote server. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140282659 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCERS - Data indicative of first and second members of a social group, a media content accessed by the first and second members of the social group, and a time at which the media content was accessed by the first and second members of the social group is collected. A system then compares the received data to determine if the second member of the social group accessed the same media content as the first member of the social group and if the second member of the social group accessed the same media content within a predetermined amount of time. When the second member of the social group accessed the same media content as the first member of the social group within the predetermined amount of time the first member of the social group is identified as a social influencer. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140289752 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TEMPORAL RATING AND ANALYSIS OF DIGITAL CONTENT - A system and method for temporal rating and analysis of digital content in a temporally changing digital content environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, one or more end points, one or more content service providers, and a rating analytics server (RAS) are communicatively connected via a communication network. In one example, each of the end points includes a rating capture module (RCM). Further, the digital content is sent to the end points by the content service providers. Furthermore, temporal rating, inputs and/or reactions of consumers are dynamically captured, by the RCM, while viewing and/or listening to digital content on the end points. In addition, the captured temporal rating, inputs and/or reactions are sent to the RAS by the RCM. Also, the received temporal rating, inputs and/or reactions are analyzed and sent to the content service providers by the RAS. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140289753 | System and Method of Providing Recommendations Related To A Service System - A method of providing recommendations related to a service is disclosed and includes receiving data from a device associated with a service subscriber, the data identifying an individual. The method also includes creating a personalization profile associated with the service subscriber. The personalization profile is populated with information included in a profile of the identified individual. The method further includes providing at least one recommendation based on the personalization profile of the service subscriber. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140298366 | Method and Apparatus for Evaluating Media Delivery Quality - A method and an apparatus are provided for evaluating media delivery quality that relate to the field of communications technologies and that can directly reflect a variation of media delivery quality and a variation of subjective experience of a user on media play quality. A method for evaluating media delivery quality includes: receiving media data, and measuring a data amount of the media data received within the period of time; parsing the media data, and acquiring a play rate of the media data; simulating, a decoding buffer in a process of playing the media data received within the period of time, to acquire a virtual decoding buffer and acquire a size of the virtual decoding buffer; and determining, according to the size of the virtual decoding buffer, whether a pause occurs in the process of playing the media data received within the period of time. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140298367 | PROBABILISTIC METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE THE STATE OF A MEDIA DEVICE - Probabilistic methods and apparatus to determine the state of a media device are described. An example method includes generating, based on a first output signal from a first sensor, a first parameter value representative of a first property of a media device; generating, based on a second output signal from a second sensor, a second parameter value representative of a second property of the media device; calculating a first state probability that the media device is presenting media provided by a first source based on a first conditional probability associated with the first parameter value and a second conditional probability associated with the second parameter value; calculating a second state probability that the media device is presenting media provided by a second source different than the first source based on a third conditional probability associated with the first parameter value and a fourth conditional probability associated with the second parameter value; and generating a state identifier by comparing the first state probability and the second state probability. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140304726 | Consumption Likelihood of Linear Content Streams - The likelihood of consumption of a linear content stream may be determined. Information that includes data indicative of user interaction with a client device may be received. The information may correspond to a period during which the client device received linear content. The likelihood of consumption may be determined for that period based on the received information. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140304727 | Methods and Systems for Providing Demand Based Services - A system and method may include monitoring content being displayed at a display device to generate monitoring data that includes a program identifier, communicating the monitoring data to a server, the server determining which programs to include in an on-demand lineup based on the monitoring data and generating an on-demand lineup message to identify on-demand programs included in the on-demand lineup, and receiving the on-demand lineup message from the server. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140317648 | VIDEO DISPLAY MONITORING METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Methods and apparatus are provided for monitoring video content provided to a vehicle. In one embodiment a method includes: receiving video content at the vehicle; monitoring the video content based on guidelines data stored in a datastore; and selectively modifying the video content based on the monitoring. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140325541 | System and Method to Integrate and Connect Friends Viewing Video Programming and Entertainment Services Contemporaneously on Different Televisions and Other Devices - The present invention relates generally to a system and apparatus for video entertainment. More specifically, the present invention is a system and apparatus to integrate and connect friends viewing video programming and entertainment services contemporaneously on different televisions and other devices. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140325542 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A DATASET OF ANNOTATIONS CORRESPONDING TO PORTIONS OF A CONTENT ITEM - Methods, apparatuses, and/or systems are provided for enabling a time-shifted, on-demand social network for watching, creating, and/or sharing time-shifted annotation datasets (e.g., commentary tracks) synced to any on-demand programming, and for presenting content items, annotations (e.g., comments) associated with the content items, or related items. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140325543 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING REWARDS BASED ON ANNOTATIONS - Methods, apparatuses, and/or systems are providing for enabling a time-shifted, on-demand social network for watching, creating, and/or sharing time-shifted annotation datasets (e.g., commentary tracks) synced to any on-demand programming, and more particularly to providing rewards to users when they create annotations (e.g., comments), when other users interact with their annotations, when transactions are enabled via their annotations, or for other reasons. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140325544 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING AN INTERACTIVE SERVICE - A method of processing an interactive service and an apparatus includes generating an application parameter table including a first identifier and a second identifier, wherein the first identifier identifies a interactive programming segment which application parameter table pertains to, and wherein the second identifier identifies an application within the scope of application parameter table; generating an activation message file that indicates at least one of activation times of the applications, wherein the activation message file includes a third identifier and activation messages, wherein the third identifier matches the first identifier of application parameter table which contains the applications, wherein the activation message includes a fourth identifier and a start time information, wherein the fourth identifier matches the second identifier of the application in the application parameter table. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140325545 | Cloud Computing System and Method Based on Distributed Consumer Electronic Devices - In accordance with a method a plurality of subscriber systems are provided, the systems being coupled via a Wide Area Network (WAN) and comprising a first subscriber system. The first subscriber system has processing and non-volatile storage and is suitably programmed for providing a subscriber service to a first subscriber. The first system is disposed in an unsecured location, which is associated with the first subscriber. Subsequently, the subscriber service is provided to the first subscriber. Separately, a task is provided to the first subscriber system via the WAN and is executed on the first subscriber system. An activity record for the execution of the task is logged, based on an amount of at least one of the processing and the non-volatile storage consumed on the first subscriber system during execution of the task. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140325546 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO CREATE A MEDIA CONTENT SUMMARY BASED ON VIEWER ANNOTATIONS - A method includes receiving, at a media server, a request to create a media content summary. The request includes a user-specified criterion. The method also includes generating resized segments by automatically changing a size of each of one or more segments of media content until a total size of the resized segments satisfies the user-specified criterion and including the resized segments in the media content summary. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140325547 | CONTENT HOSTING AND ADVERTISING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - In an exemplary system, a data store includes at least a subset of media content, media content attribute data associated with the media content, user profile data associated with at least one consumer having access to the media content, advertising content, and content matching data associated with the advertising content. An access module is communicatively coupled to an access device and configured to receive a request sent by the access device, the request being for access to a media content instance included in the media content. A matching module is configured to match at least one advertising content instance included in the advertising content to the media content instance based on the media content attribute data, user profile data, and content matching data. The access module is configured to provide the matched advertising content instance to the access device for user presentation. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140325548 | Video Content Monitoring Device and Methods Thereof - A method that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a packet indicative of a request for a number of video content items. The video content items are identified based on a network traffic flow characteristic associated with the packet and a popularity level is determined associated with each video content item of the number of video content items. The popularity level for each of the video content items is compared to a popularity threshold, and a portion of a video content item is displayed responsive to the popularity level exceeding the popularity threshold. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140331243 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIGITAL MEDIA CONTENT CREATION AND DISTRIBUTION - A method and system for providing on-site content delivery and on-demand content access. The method comprising recording digital media content on a DMR device, managing distribution of the digital media content to one or more remote devices, automatically distributing the digital media content to the one or more remote devices, the distributed digital media content configured for local hosting at the one or more remote devices, and monitoring consumption of the digital media content distributed to the one or remote devices. | 11-06-2014 |
| 20140331244 | Object Model For Delivering Live Tv Programming Streams To Client Device - In embodiments of an object model for domain-based content mobility, a client object model architecture ( | 11-06-2014 |
| 20140337869 | USER BEHAVIOR BASED DATA POPULATION OF DEVICES - A system and method include tracking user behavior exhibited by interaction with a device, creating a preference profile as a function of the tracked user behavior, accessing the preference profile prior to populating the device, and using the preference profile to select an order of population of the device. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140337870 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING ACCESS PLANS - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, wirelessly receiving adjustment information from a mobile communication device, wirelessly receiving a request for video content from the mobile communication device, generating multiple versions of the video content, wirelessly transmitting a second version to the mobile communication device for presentation on the display device according to the adjustment of the access plan, and transmitting a first version to the mobile communication device for presentation on the display device and ceasing transmitting the second version responsive to a determination of an undesired condition associated with the presentation of the second version on the display device. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140337871 | METHOD TO MEASURE QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE OF A VIDEO SERVICE - A method to measure quality of experience of a video service. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140344843 | Methods Circuits Apparatuses Systems and Associated Computer Executable Code for Providing Viewer Analytics Relating to Broadcast Content - There is provided according to some embodiments of the present invention methods, circuits, apparatuses, systems and associated computer executable code for providing viewer monitoring and analytics relating to broadcast or otherwise published content. A server communicating with mobile viewer appliances adapted to detect emission(s) from presentation device(s) and to convey information derived from the detection to the server. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140351838 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A SECURE ACCESS-CONTROLLED ENTERPRISE CONTENT REPOSITORY - The disclosed system provides enables controlling access to content, such as videos, based on authentication information provided by a user of the system. In one embodiment, after authenticating a user, the system provides a database of media, such as corporate training videos, the scope of which is determined based on the identity of the user. The system enables the user to view and provide feedback about videos, such as by indicating a rating of the video and/or providing comments about the video. The system also enables the content provider to specify searchable information for various videos, such as title, creation date, run time, or other appropriate information. The system enables the creator to specify certain metadata about content, to provide further information that can be searched by users of the system. The disclosed system may also enable users to share videos with other users with similar access rights. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140351839 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING DEMAND-DRIVEN DISTRIBUTION OF CONTENT - Methods and systems for facilitating distribution of content are disclosed. In one example embodiment, a method of facilitating demand-driven population and management of online content within a video-on-demand (VOD) service includes receiving trend information and a link reference at one or more input ports, the reference being at least indirectly indicative of a location at which the content is available, and obtaining and normalizing, by way of one or more processing devices, metadata pertaining to the content. The method further includes determining business rule information pertaining to the content based at least indirectly upon the trend information, content provider policy information, and the normalized metadata, via the processing device(s), and outputting via one or more output ports the business rule information for receipt by the VOD service, whereby availability and prioritization of the content at the VOD service is based at least in part upon the output business rule information. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140351840 | FILTERING AND TAILORING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT BASED ON OBSERVED USER BEHAVIOR - A user is given the ability to control the display of content items such as advertisements, by for example skipping over content items that are not of interest. Metadata tags associated with non-skipped viewings of content are stored and tracked. Subsequently, candidate content items are scored according to their metadata tags, giving higher scores to candidate content items associated with higher occurrences of non-skipped viewings. The higher-scoring candidate content items can then be favored over other candidate content items. Thus, based on the choices the user makes with respect to skipping or not skipping particular content items, inferences are made as to the user's level of interest in various subjects, and subsequent content items are delivered in a personalized manner to the user. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140359648 | HISTORY RECORD AND PROXY RATING FOR MEDIA RECOMMENDATIONS - A view history of a user viewing a program is generated. The view history record is used to generate a proxy rating of the program when the user does not assign a rating to the program. The proxy rating is used by a recommendation engine to generate recommendations. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140359649 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AUDIENCE DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS IN A CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK - Methods and apparatus for collection and processing of data relating to users of a content-delivery network. In one embodiment, the content delivery network is a cable or satellite or HFCu network, and the apparatus includes an architecture for routinely harvesting, parsing, processing, and storing data relating to the activities of the users (e.g., subscribers) of the network. In one variant, at least portions of the data are anonymized to protect subscriber privacy. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140366051 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AUDIENCE DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS IN A CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK - Methods and apparatus for collection and processing of data relating to users of a content-delivery network. In one embodiment, the content delivery network is a cable or satellite or HFCu network, and the apparatus includes an architecture for routinely harvesting, parsing, processing, and storing data relating to the activities of the users (e.g., subscribers) of the network. In one variant, at least portions of the data are anonymized to protect subscriber privacy. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140373037 | METHOD FOR GENERATING TIME BASED PREVIEW IMAGE FOR A VIDEO STREAM - Systems and methods for rewinding a video to a point before the video was first viewed. Video transmitted by a media source is cached by a remote server. Upon a trick-play request for the video, the server generates a rewind stream that includes the video that was transmitted by the media source before the user started to view the video. Upon receiving the rewind stream, the user's equipment may cache the rewind stream in a rewind buffer and rewind or play from the rewind buffer. The server may also generate and transmit a forward stream of the video that the media source has not yet transmitted. The user's equipment may cache the forward stream in a forward buffer. To perform trick-play operations with the video, the user's equipment may migrate the playback of the video to the rewind and forward buffers and rewind or fast-forward the video from the buffers. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140373038 | QUALITY EVALUATION APPARATUS, QUALITY EVALUATION METHOD, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND RADIO BASE STATION APPARATUS - A quality evaluation apparatus for evaluating quality of a picture transmitted from a radio base station apparatus to a terminal apparatus, the apparatus including: a perception quality estimation processing unit configured to estimate the quality of picture viewed at the terminal apparatus based on quality of a radio section between the radio base station apparatus and the terminal apparatus; and a quality evaluation processing unit configured to output an evaluation result evaluated the estimated quality of picture. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140380347 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR USER EXPERIENCE BASED CONTENT CONSUMPTION - Computer-implemented methods, systems, and computer readable media are disclosed for user experience based content consumption. The computer-implemented methods include, for example, receiving a request reflecting a content consumption of a content item. The computer-implemented methods may also include determining, using at least one processor, an alternative content consumption associated with an improved user experience than the requested content consumption as a function of historical experience data. In addition, the computer-implemented methods may also include outputting data associated with the alternative content consumption. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20140380348 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO CHARACTERIZE HOUSEHOLDS WITH MEDIA METER DATA - Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to characterize households with media meter data. An example method includes identifying, with a processor, a target set of household categories associated with a target research geography, when a quantity of households within the target research geography representing the target set of household categories does not satisfy a threshold value, generating a first subset of categories and a second subset of categories from the target set of household categories, identifying a first set of households representing the first subset of categories from the target set of household categories and identifying an associated total number of household tuning minutes and a total number of household exposure minutes associated therewith, for each category in the second subset of categories from the target set of household categories, calculating a household tuning proportion and an exposure proportion, the household tuning proportion and exposure proportion based on the total number of household tuning minutes and exposure minutes, respectively, and calculating the panelist behavior probability based on the exposure proportion and the household tuning proportion. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20150026711 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO CONTENT DISTRIBUTION - Accordingly, there is provided a client device for receiving video content from a server, the client device comprising a processor. The processor is arranged to determine if a particular clip has been played. If it is determined that the client has played the particular clip, the processor is arranged to increase the quality of a video content that is played. By determining if a particular clip has been played before increasing the quality of video content that is played, a user of the client device is encouraged to watch the particular clip before watching the video content. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150026712 | INTEGRATION OF SOCIAL MEDIA WITH LIVE EVENTS - Apparatus and methods that provide for integration of social media with live events are disclosed. Social media content could be published to an online social media service responsive to the detection of a trigger that is associated with a live event video broadcast. In some embodiments, incoming user-driven social media content is repurposed and automatically reformatted for video display. Story content sources and citations might also be integrated for broadcast stories. Story content approval and notification could also be supported. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150046935 | Guaranteed Ad Targeting with Stable Precision - In one embodiment, a method trains a predictive model configured to predict a probability that advertisement (ad) impressions belong to a segment that is being targeted where the ad impressions are provided during sending of videos to users. A first threshold is determined in which the probability predicted from the predictive model is compared to determine whether ad impressions belong to the segment. A distribution probability used in the training of the predictive model is determined. The distribution probability is determined based on a characteristic for ad impressions on a site. Then, a changed distribution probability for the site is determined. The method further determines a second threshold in which the probability predicted from the predictive model is compared to determine whether ad impressions belong to the segment. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150046936 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AND CLASSIFYING DIRECT RESPONSE ADVERTISEMENTS - The present invention relates to a system and method for detecting and classifying direct response advertisements, and provides a system for detecting and classifying direct response advertisements, including an advertisement candidate segment generation unit for generating an advertisement candidate segment for an advertisement section detected from a broadcast stream; a matching unit for determining whether the advertisement candidate segment matches each advertisement segment stored in an advertisement database (DB); a direct response advertisement determination unit for, if it is determined by the matching unit that an advertisement segment matching the advertisement candidate segment is not present, determining whether the advertisement candidate segment is a direct response advertisement; a direct response advertisement registration unit for storing the advertisement candidate segment, determined to be the direct response advertisement by the direct response advertisement determination unit, as an advertisement segment that is the direct response advertisement in the advertisement DB; and a direct response advertisement grouping unit for, if it is determined by the matching unit that an advertisement segment matching the advertisement candidate segment is present, and the matching advertisement segment is a direct response advertisement, grouping the advertisement candidate segment with advertisement segments that are direct response advertisements stored in the advertisement DB, and the method using the system. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150046937 | TRANSMISSION APAPRATUS, TRANSMISSION METHOD, RECEPTION APPARATUS, RECEPTION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND BROADCASTING SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a transmission apparatus for transmitting AV (Audio/Video) content, including: an acquirer configured to acquire an estimated number of audience terminals indicative of an estimated number of reception apparatuses receiving the AV content; a computer configured, in conjugation with the AV content, to compute, on the basis of the estimated number of audience terminals, a validity probability of trigger information associated with control of an application program to be executed in the reception apparatus; a generator configured to generate the trigger signal including the computed validity probability; and a transmitter configured to transmit the generated trigger information with the AV content. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150052542 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING MEDIA AUDIENCE - The present invention relates to a system for measuring media audience, especially for measuring contents broadcast by radio and TV broadcasting stations via land, cable, satellite and otherwise, which comprises at least one local audience measurement device ( | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150052543 | Cross Media Targeted Message Synchronization - Social media content items and references to events that occur therein are aligned with the time-based media events they describe. These mappings may be used as the basis for sending messages to populations of authors of content items, where the populations are determined based on whether the author has written a content item that refers to a specific TV show or advertisement. TV streams are monitored to detect when and where a specific advertisement for a particular advertiser is shown. Concurrently, social media streams are monitored for content items that refer to or are about specific TV shows and advertisements. Responsive to a specific advertisement being detected as being shown during a specific TV show, a message associated with the advertisement is sent to the authors of the content items associated with that TV show or advertisement. The messages can be transmitted while the advertisement is being shown. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150058872 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DELIVERING VIDEO CONTENT FROM MULTIPLE PLATFORMS TO SUBSCRIBERS - An integrated content delivery interface enables a user to access content from a multi-channel service provider (such as a cable television service) and over-the-top sources. The system displays a set of cable channels and over-the-top channels based on a combination of the user's subscription status for the various services, personalization criteria, and device type. The system may provide the user with a playlist of available videos for each channel. For videos from over-the-top sources, when a user selects the video for on-demand play the user's device will directly access the video as served by the over-the-top source. Before including any video in the playlist, the system will ensure that the video is available to the user based on subscription status and/or device type, and it will ensure that the over-the-top source serves the video in a format that is compatible with the user's device. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150058873 | CUSTOMIZED CONTENT CALENDAR - A customized content calendar may include reminders or invitations to access particular media content, where the reminders or invitations may be pushed to the content calendar based on user-specific preferences. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150058874 | Method and Device for Setting Properties - The disclosure provides a method and a device for setting properties. The method comprises: analyzing and counting one or more program sources selected by a user through an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) program system; determining program IDs corresponding to the program sources selected by the user according to a analysis and statistics result to acquire the merchandise corresponding to the program IDs in the IPTV merchandise system; and setting the properties of the merchandise, wherein the merchandise properties set are used for indicating how to display the merchandise in the IPTV merchandise system. The problem caused by the identical merchandise recommended to all the users in the IPTV online shopping system in the related art is solved, consequently, personalized services are implemented for different users and the user experience is improved. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150058875 | RECEIVING DEVICE AND METHOD, TRANSMITTING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present disclosure provides a receiving device including, a receiver that receives AV content, a detector, an acquirer, a tentative reservation registering part, and a definitive reservation registering part. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150067710 | CONSUMER-CONFIGURABLE ALTERNATIVE ADVERTISING RECEPTION WITH INCENTIVES - An indication from a user is detected by a first content viewing device to transfer an advertisement delivered to the first content viewing device as part of streamed audio and video (A/V) content to an alternative content viewing device. A determination is made, based upon user-specific advertising configuration information, as to whether the user is authorized to perform advertisement deferral during the streamed A/V content. The advertisement is configured as an incentivized deferred advertisement to be viewed by the user at a later time using the alternative content viewing device in response to determining that the user is authorized to perform advertisement deferral during the streamed A/V content. The configured incentivized deferred advertisement is transferred to the alternative content viewing device. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150067711 | AUTOMATIC DETERMINATION AND RETRIEVAL OF A FAVORITE CHANNEL - A consumer electronic device tracks the current channel to which the electronic consumer device is tuned. The consumer electronic device determines an amount of time that the current channel remains unchanged. Based at least in part on this amount of time, the consumer electronic device determines whether the current channel should be stored as a favorite channel. When the consumer electronic device subsequently receives a favorite channel command, the consumer electronic device is caused to tune to the favorite channel that is currently stored in memory. Changing user preferences are thus automatically accommodated without manual intervention, resulting in an effortless user interface. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150074698 | SELECTIVELY INCORPORATING FEEDBACK FROM A REMOTE AUDIENCE - A method, apparatus, and stored instructions are provided for selectively incorporating feedback from a remote audience into live content. The feedback is incorporated into one part of a segment at the same time that another part of the segment is played to an audience. A feedback manager may receive feedback from audience members on a first part of the segment while a second, later part of the segment is being played to the audience by a client machine and while a third, even later part of the segment is being generated by a content manager. The feedback manager may then compare feedback data to stored criteria to determine whether or not to change the playing content. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150074699 | MULTIMEDIA DATA DISPLAY CONTROL ON AN AUDIO-VIDEO RENDERING DEVICE - A method to control, on an audio-video rendering device, e.g. a PC or a TV device (AVD), the display of a first amount of first multimedia data, e.g. a predetermined quota of advertisements, defined as a function of a second amount of second multimedia data, e.g. audio-video programs, already displayed on the rendering device. In case of advertisements, the first amount relates to the funding of the second amount of program already displayed on a first channel received on the rendering device. The purpose of the application of this method is then to collect sponsoring money from advertisers according to advertisements being played and reversely ensure retribution of the channels according to the timing of each program has been effectively watched. Owing to this method, the first amount of first multimedia data is displayed, or the funding of the watched program is achieved, even when the user of the TV device switches to a second channel before the program being fully watched and before the related first amount of advertisements being fully displayed on the first channel. To this end, when a user of the rendering device switches from the first channel to a second channel before the first amount of first multimedia data being fully displayed on the first channel, the method comprises the steps of determining the amount of first multimedia data already displayed on the first channel, calculating the missing amount of first multimedia data still to be displayed for achieving the display of this first | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150074700 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING AND SHARING CUSTOMIZED MULTIMEDIA SEGMENTS - Multimedia content segment identified by users may be shared among media devices and media device users. Media content segment metadata is generated based on one or more identified media content item segments identified in one or more media content items. The media content segment metadata may include, but is not limited to, information indicating segment start and stop times, information about the particular media content item (e.g., title, actors, original air date), and other user-provided descriptive information. A link for the media content segment metadata may be posted for display on a webpage and which enables other users to access the media content segment metadata. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150074701 | Customized Listing of Content - An option list is customized for a user. Titles are retrieved that are related to the user's historical preference for content. A content database is then searched for an additional title of content that is unrelated to the user's historical preference for content. The option list is generated to include the titles and the additional title. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150082330 | REAL-TIME CHANNEL PROGRAM RECOMMENDATION ON A DISPLAY DEVICE - A method of providing a channel program recommendation in real-time for a display device is disclosed. The method includes receiving a plurality of multimedia signal streams for a plurality of channel programs, and generating in real-time at least one video and audio content tag based on at least one of video and audio contents from the multimedia signal streams. The display device generates the channel program recommendation including at least one of the channel programs based on the at least one video and audio content tag and at least one of a plurality of viewing criteria. A notification of the channel program recommendation is then output. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150089520 | UNSUPERVISED CONTENT REPLAY IN LIVE VIDEO - Systems and methods are presented for monitoring user interest in a video as it is being played and autonomously selecting a section of the video for replaying based on an identified user interest in the section. A monitoring component monitors user interaction with a video being streamed to one or more devices as the video is played at the one or more devices. An identification component further determines level of user interest based on the monitored user interaction and identifies a section of the video associated with the level of user interest in response to the level of user interest being above a predetermined threshold. Then a replay component streams the section of the video to the one or more devices again at least in response to the identification of the section. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150089521 | DATA TRANSLATION FOR VIDEO-VIEWING ACTIVITY - A computer-implemented method of using Linear, DVR, and VOD video viewing activity data as input to a data translation processor which prepares that viewing activity for more efficient downstream processing by translating detailed values to aggregated values according to analyst defined translation rules in preparation for ingestion by a MapReduce Framework with the result that the MapReduce Framework needs to process less data in order to create analytical studies of second-by-second viewing activity for program, channel, house, device, viewer, demographic, and geographic attributes. The source data may be extracted from a database defined according to the Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. Media Measurement Data Model defined in “Audience Data Measurement Specification” as “OpenCable™ Specifications, Audience Measurement, Audience Measurement Data Specification” document OC-SP-AMD-101-130502 or any similar format. An analyst can use Hadoop to run more studies in less time with less hardware thus gaining greater insights into viewing activity at lower cost. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150089522 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING EFFICIENT AND ACCURATE ESTIMATES OF TV VIEWERSHIP RATINGS - A method for providing efficient and accurate estimates of TV viewership ratings through a distributed computer system that includes multiple computers is disclosed. The method includes: receiving a query from a client at the distributed computer system; dynamically selecting one or more computers according to a predefined sharding function; at each of the selected computers, determining a count of qualified event records that satisfy the query; aggregating the respective counts of qualified event records determined by the selected computers; statistically projecting the aggregated count of qualified event records into an estimated total count of qualified event records on the distributed computer system; and returning the estimated total count of qualified event records to the requesting client. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150089523 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING AND MANAGING TV VIEWERSHIP DATA - A computer-implemented method for collecting and managing TV viewership data from multiple TV metering data providers is disclosed. The method includes: receiving an event log file at a distributed computer system that includes multiple computers; dynamically selecting one or more computers according to a predefined sharding function; at each of the selected computers: allocating a set of compressed event records, which corresponds to a subset of the event log file, at predetermined locations within the memory of the computer; and in accordance with a predefined schedule, replicating the compressed event records from a respective one of the selected computers to one or more other computers of the distributed system such that there are at least two replicas of any event record on at least two computers of the distributed computer system. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150089524 | CLIENT-SIDE RECOMMENDATIONS ON ONE-WAY BROADCAST NETWORKS - A method and a client-side Recommender system on One-Way Broadcast Network includes at least a one-way channel connecting a broadcasting station to a set-top-box device of a first set of users, the set-top-box including a memory, a computation and driving unit for tracking the user activity, storing a user profile, generating and displaying a ranking of recommended media items, the ranking being determined by the computation unit through a recommender model stored on the memory. The system further includes a collaborative dual module, a first back-end module running on a auxiliary server connected to a two-way network and belonging to an auxiliary domain, this first back-end module leveraging external data sources to collect community based information on at least part of the media items, while the recommender model stored on the memory being a second front-end module, wherein the broadcasting station and the set-top-box device belong to a target domain. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150089525 | POWER MANAGEMENT FOR AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT METERS - Power management methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture for audience measurement meters are disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein include obtaining presentation device state data representing an activation state of a media presentation device that is to present received media and is monitored by an audience measurement meter, the presentation device state data including time information. Such disclosed example methods also include determining whether to fault audience measurement data reported by the audience measurement meter based on the presentation device state data and power outage information determined from the audience measurement data. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150095927 | INTELLIGENT RECORDING OF FAVORITE VIDEO CONTENT USING A VIDEO SERVICES RECEIVER - A video services receiver and related operating methods are presented here. The video services receiver is configured to maintain a database that indicates a viewing pattern for a user of the video services receiver. The video services receiver is configured to detect a condition that is inconsistent with the maintained viewing pattern for the user. In response to the detection of an inconsistent condition, the video services receiver records a designated program event included in the viewing pattern for the user, wherein the recording addresses the detected condition. In some scenarios, the receiver buffers the designated program event to allow the user to view the entirety of the buffered program event. In other scenarios, the receiver records the designated program event and sends a notification to the user when the receiver determines that the user is absent or is not viewing any programming from the receiver. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150100975 | USER TERMINAL APPARATUS, SERVER, AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING BROADCAST VIEWING PATTERN INFORMATION - A method of providing viewing pattern information of a user terminal apparatus is provided. The method includes: transmitting content viewing information of the user terminal apparatus to a server; receiving information about a channel on which a content is broadcast among a plurality of channels that are on air, from the server; requesting viewing pattern information of the plurality of channels from the server; and receiving and displaying viewing pattern information, which is calculated based on a viewer rating acquired by aggregating the transmitted channel information, from the server. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150121407 | CREDIT/PENALTY-BASED NETWORK-GUIDANCE OF BITRATES FOR CLIENTS - A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium having instructions to obtain network state information pertaining to at least a portion of a network that provides an adaptive bitrate streaming service; generate a recommended bitrate for delivery of a program based on the network state information; transmit the recommended bitrate to user devices; monitor a compliance and a non-compliance of the recommended bitrate by the user devices; and assign a credit commensurate with the compliance of the recommended bitrate to each of the user devices that complied with the recommended bitrate and a penalty commensurate with the non-compliance of the recommended bitrate to each of the user devices that did not comply with the recommended bitrate. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150128162 | REAL-TIME TRACKING COLLECTION FOR VIDEO EXPERIENCES - Methods and systems for tracking events associated with use of video content are disclosed. A method collects events associated with use of video content at a computing device. In response to determining that a tracking interval has elapsed, the method optimizes the collected events by grouping similar events together, serializes the optimized events by structuring the optimized events in a defined format, and creates a tracking call to send the serialized events to a remote computing device. A system determines setup parameters for tracking collection on a client computing device, the setup parameters comprising an error tracking parameter, and setup check and tracking intervals. The system periodically receives serialized event data from a client device in accordance with the tracking interval, the event data having been collected in response to occurrences of tracked events associated with use of video content at the client device, the video content including an advertisement. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150135205 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SENDING STORED ADVERTISING DATA FROM AN INTERNET PROTOCOL TELEVISION END USER NETWORK INTERFACE DEVICE - A computer program and system are disclosed for sending stored IPTV advertisement data from an IPTV network end user network interface device, the computer program including but not limited to instructions to intercept data from the end user device connected to the end user network interface device before the data reaches a destination intended by an end user associated with the end user device; instructions to determine at the end user network interface device whether a television subscription is active for the end user network device; and instructions to send the advertisement data from the television network device to the end user device for display when the television subscription is not active for the network interface device and instructions to connect the client device to a walled garden indicated by a uniform resource in the advertisement data. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150143394 | CONTENT PRESENTATION METHOD, CONTENT PRESENTATION DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - A content presenting method of the present disclosure includes: a history collecting step of collecting a viewing history of a user; a determining step of analyzing the viewing history to determine an active time segment in which an output section is in a state of being viewed; a data collecting step of collecting meta data assigned to a viewed content; an analyzing step of analyzing the meta data to extract a word representing the content; a profile generating step of generating, for each active time segment, a user profile based on the extracted word; a calculation step of calculating an estimated viewing time; and a playlist generating step of selecting contents based on the user profile generated correspondingly to the active time segment to be compatible with the estimated viewing time, to generate a playlist which defines an order in which the selected contents are played. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150143395 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BROWSING USING MULTIPLE COORDINATED DEVICE SETS - Systems and methods for navigating hypermedia using multiple coordinated input/output device sets. Disclosed systems and methods allow a user and/or an author to control what resources are presented on which device sets (whether they are integrated or not), and provide for coordinating browsing activities to enable such a user interface to be employed across multiple independent systems. Disclosed systems and methods also support new and enriched aspects and applications of hypermedia browsing and related business activities. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150143396 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MEASURE A CROSS DEVICE AUDIENCE - Methods and apparatus are disclosed to generate a cross device panel by determining that a first panelist associated with a first panel data and a first device is also associated with a non-paneled device. Example methods and apparatus disclosed herein match, via a processor, a second panelist associated with second panel data to the first panelist based on (1) the second panelist having demographics matching the first panelist and (2) the second panelist being associated with a second device corresponding to the non-paneled device of the first panelist, and generate a cross device panelist profile for the first panelist, the cross device panelist profile comprising at least some of the first panel data and at least a portion of the second panel data. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150143397 | INTERNET-BASED SUBMISSION OF CABLE NETWORK CONTENT - A cable network content delivery system providing advertising information via a cable network and an advertising content interface are described. An advertiser submits advertising content over an internet which is then adapted for a cable network. A data gateway stores the advertising information. The system processes a user command received via the cable network, including an advertising information search command, and provides advertising information retrieved via the cable network. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150150033 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BUILDING AND TRACKING AUDIENCE SEGMENTS - A non-transitory computer readable medium having computer executable program code embodied thereon is configured to build a set of individual profiles. Each individual profile includes biographical information and contextual data. The biographical information is associated with a data source, and the contextual data is associated with the data source. The computer executable program code is configured to build an audience segment, wherein the audience segment includes a set of individual profiles. Each individual profile in the audience segment includes biographical information conforming to a set of audience segment criteria and contextual data conforming to the audience segment criteria. The computer executable program code is configured to tag the audience segment with a set of metadata, such that the audience segment can be discretely tracked. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150150034 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program, which enable processing to be performed by absorbing a protocol difference when data is exchanged using different protocols. A first processing unit that processes data with a first device that performs identification of content; and a second processing unit that processes data with a second device that performs reproduction of content, and processes data with the first processing unit, are provided. Identification of content is performed based on ACR (Automatic Content Recognition), for example, the first device is an ACR server, and the first processing unit is able to work as an ACR client that communicates with each of a plurality of ACR servers that performs ACR using a different protocol. The present technology is applicable to a protocol conversion gateway. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150150035 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING EXPOSURE TO PHYSICAL ADVERTISMENTS - In a system and method for monitoring exposure of people to physical advertisements, a computing device receives positional data records associated with each of a plurality of mobile devices within a given geographical region, from a base station, sets a mobility descriptor for each corresponding user, determines whether each user is predicted to be within a predetermined viewing range of one or more advertisements, in response to the set mobility descriptor, instantaneous speed and direction, and a predetermined viewing range, and counts the number of users who are predicted to be within the predetermined viewing range. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150296235 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSOCIATING MICRO-BLOGS WITH MEDIA PROGRAMS - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may operate, for example, according to a method for identifying subsets of blogs from a collection of blogs according to a relevance of each subset of blogs to one of a plurality of media programs deliverable to a plurality of subscriber devices, determining for each subset of blogs one or more trends, detecting a subscriber device from the plurality of subscriber devices, selecting a media program from the plurality of media programs, selecting one of the subsets of blogs that is relevant to the media program, and supplying the subscriber device the selected subset of blogs with the one or more trends determined for the select subset of blogs. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150304713 | Demand Target Detection - A system draws an inference about the audience being targeted by the buyer of an advertisement placement opportunity by correlating the order for the advertisement placement opportunity with characteristics of the audience associated with the television program in which the advertisement placement opportunity is embedded. Sellers of advertisement placement opportunities may use the inferred target audience information to appropriately price their advertising inventories and to fulfill orders more effectively. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150304726 | SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING MEDIA CONTENT - A process that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, selecting a media content item and constructing a tout message based on the media content item. Information associated with the media content item is included within the tout message, which includes a selectable link. The selectable link includes instructions for directing equipment of a subscriber to access the media content item without the subscriber providing additional input. A group of communication devices associated with the subscriber is identified, and the tout message is transmitted to a communication device of the group. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150304737 | QoE PROVISIONING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOBILE VIDEO APPLICATION - Disclosed are a network-based quality of experience (QoE) provisioning method and apparatus for mobile video applications. A QoE provisioning method of a policy and charging rules function (PCRF) in a network includes collecting, by the PCRF, information for QoE estimation of a data flow from a user equipment measurement apparatus and a network measurement apparatus in the network, transmitting, by the PCRF, a request for the QoE estimation for the data flow, to a QoE estimation unit in the network, the data flow including information used for the QoE estimation, and transmitting, by the PCRF, a request for QoE adjustment to a server that transmits the data flow, based on the QoE estimated by the QoE estimation unit and the QoE required for the data flow. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150312604 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PREVENTING A USER FROM TERMINATING SERVICES BASED ON A CONSUMPTION RATE OF THE USER - Methods and systems are described herein for a media guidance application that prevents a user from terminating a service by broadening criteria used for user recommendations in response to determining that a user is getting bored of the media content already consumed through the service. For example, the media guidance application may determine that the rate at which a user consumes media assets (e.g., through a service) is declining (e.g., indicating the user is losing interest). In response, the media guidance application recommends new media assets with characteristics (e.g., genre, subject matter, media asset series affiliation) that differs from the media assets previously consumed by the user. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150312605 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING A LIKELIHOOD OF USER TERMINATION OF SERVICES - Systems and methods are described herein for determining a likelihood that a user will change a service. A media guidance application may identify a first service to which a user is subscribed. The media guidance application may receive information from a third-party data source corresponding to the user and identify, based on the information from the third-party data source, data indicating a negative interest in the first service. Based on the identified data, the media guidance application may calculate a likelihood that the user will change the first service. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150312609 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PREVENTING A USER FROM TERMINATING A SERVICE BASED ON THE ACCESSIBILITY OF A PREFERRED MEDIA ASSET - Methods and systems are described herein for preventing a user from terminating a service. Specifically, the media guidance application may generate for display content aimed at preventing the user from terminating a service in response to determining that a user is likely to terminate the service. For example, in response to determining that a particular media asset preferred by a user is accessible through another service, the media guidance application generates the content associated with preventing the user from terminating his or her current service (e.g., discounts to the cost of the current service, promotion or lists of media content available through the current service, etc.). | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150312624 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AND CLASSIFYING DIRECT RESPONSE ADVERTISEMENTS - System and method for detecting and classifying direct response advertisements. The system includes a unit for generating an advertisement candidate segment for an advertisement section detected from a broadcast stream; a matching unit for determining whether the candidate segment matches each advertisement segment stored in a database (DB); a unit for, if the matching unit determines that a segment matching the candidate segment is not present, determining whether the candidate segment is a direct response advertisement; a registration unit for storing the candidate segment, determined to be a direct response advertisement, as an advertisement segment that is the direct response advertisement in the DB; and a direct response advertisement grouping unit for, if the matching unit determines that an advertisement segment matching the candidate segment is present, and the matching segment is a direct response advertisement, grouping the candidate segment with DB-stored advertisement segments that are direct response advertisements. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150312632 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING A LIKELIHOOD OF USER TERMINATION OF SERVICES - Systems and methods are described herein for generating a model to determine a likelihood that a user will change a service. A media guidance application may identify a first service to which a plurality of users are subscribed, receive information from a third-party data source for each of the plurality of users, identify, based on the respective information from the third-party data source, a user action performed by each of the plurality of users in relation to the first service, and identify for at least one of the plurality of users, based on the respective information from the third-party data source, a request to change the first service. Based on the identified user action and the identified request to change the first service, the media guidance application may generate a model to determine a likelihood that a user will change the first service. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150319491 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR REDUCING SPILLOVER BY DETECTING SIGNAL DISTORTION - Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for reducing spillover in a media monitoring system are disclosed. An example method includes determining an actual frequency spectrum of the media monitored by a meter, and determining absolute values of differences between amplitudes of corresponding frequency components of the actual frequency spectrum and an expected frequency spectrum, the expected frequency spectrum stored in a database in association with a media identifier corresponding to the media. An example method also includes determining whether spillover occurred based on a summation of the absolute values satisfying a threshold, crediting the media with a media exposure if spillover did not occur. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150319492 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR USING LOCATION INFORMATION TO MANAGE SPILLOVER IN AN AUDIENCE MONITORING SYSTEM - Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for using location information to manage spillover in an audience monitoring system are disclosed. An example method involves identifying a first location of a portable metering device at a first time based on a plurality of location coordinates received from a location information system. The example method also involves generating media monitoring information corresponding to a media signal received at the first time. Additionally, the example method involves identifying the media monitoring information as being associated with a spillover signal in response to determining that a media delivery device is not located at the first location of the portable metering device at the first time. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150326893 | ASSET SCORING AND RANKING FOR CONTENT ON DEMAND INSERTION - Systems and methods presented herein provide for ranking of assets for insertion into selected COD content. In one embodiment, a system includes an interface operable to receive information of a COD content selection by a Customer Premises Equipment (CPE). The system also includes an asset ranking module operable to identify assets that are available for insertion to the selected COD content from the plurality of assets, to determine values of the available assets to a provider of the selected COD content, to rank the available assets based on the determined values, and to direct the insertion of the one or more assets into the selected COD content based on the rank of the available assets. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150326897 | EVENT BOOKING MECHANISM - A mechanism for booking events comprising an. event broker, one or more event managers and one or more action handlers. In one embodiment, the event broker is configured to register a plurality of event bookings, each of which identifies an event and a corresponding action. For each event booking, the event broker notifies an event manager which is configured to detect the type of event identified in the event booking. When the event manager detects the identified event, it notifies the event broker. The broker then notifies an action, handler which is configured to initiate the type of action identified, in the event booking. The action handler then initiates the action. If the event booking is non-recurring and the action is complete, the event booking is unregistered by the event broker. The event broker is configured to work in conjunction with a plurality of event managers which can detect different types of events and a plurality of action handlers which can initiate different types of actions. The event broker is configured to resolve resource conflicts between actions for which the corresponding events have been detected. The event broker is further configured to control access to event bookings through a security system which can use privileges or credentials to identify clients which are authorized to read, modify, delete or otherwise access information, contained in the event bookings. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150326905 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING ADVERTISING - A system that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining identified impressions that are detected from consumption data collected from a group of media processors where the identified impressions represent viewing of selected content and where the consumption data indicates channel tuning events at the group of media processors including changing of channels, applying a ridge regression analysis to the identified impressions to determine a predicted number of target impressions per advertisement slot, and generating a media plan based on a ratio of an advertisement slot cost to the predicted number of target impressions per advertisement slot. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150326921 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN EVENT-DRIVEN VIDEO/AUDIO CONTENT PLATFORM - The disclosure herein relates to providing a video/audio event-driven platform in digital environments. Particularly, the disclosure relates to systems and methods for controlling the video/audio content stream within a video playing session, automatically responding to events allowing the user to continue in a preferred engagement. The methods support operating a media terminal to present a first segment of video content in a first presentation mode, while a second presentation mode, associated with detectable video content events, may be used for a second segment. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150326938 | Method And System For Socially Ranking Programs - A method and system for displaying program representation. Program rating information derived from a plurality of identified users regarding a plurality of programs is obtained. The plurality of identified users are identified based on at least one of likes and dislikes of the plurality of users of one or more of actors, series, programs, and genres. A social rank of the programs is determined based on the rating information and on rankings of each of the plurality of identified users for the plurality of programs. For each user of the plurality of users the rankings of the user are weighted based on a viewer's level of interactions with and degree of separation from the user. A plurality of program representations representing corresponding ones of the plurality of programs are displayed to the viewer, wherein a differentiating visual characteristic of each of the plurality of representations is based on the ranking. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150334447 | PRESENTATION OF AN AVATAR IN A MEDIA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a system that generates an avatar having a first behavior determined by a user profile of a user. An avatar profile is received from a content source for modifying the avatar according to a second behavior. The avatar is modified to generate an adaptive avatar based on the avatar profile. The adaptive avatar has, at least in part, the second behavior determined by the avatar profile, while retaining, at least in part, the first behavior determined by the user profile of the user. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150334458 | Audience Segmentation Using Machine-Learning - A method and system for audience segmentation is described, the method and system including preparing a plurality of guidebooks of prior probability distributions for content items and user profile attributes, the prior probabilities and user profile attributes being extractable from within audience measurement data, receiving raw audience measurement data, analyzing, at a processor, the received raw audience measurement data using the prepared plurality of guidebooks, generating a plurality of clusters of data per user household as a result of the analyzing, correlating viewing activity to each cluster within an identified household, predicting a profile of a viewer corresponding to each cluster within the identified household, applying classifier rules in order to assign viewing preference tags to each predicted profile, and assigning each predicted profile viewing preferences based on the viewing preference tags assigned to that profile Related systems, methods, and apparatus are also described. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150334461 | Methods and systems for dynamically recommending favorite channels or programs - A method for dynamically recommending favorite channels or programs, implemented on a computer and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, comprises the following steps: collecting historical data of a user's operations; classifying the historical data; determining a ranking of channels or programs in each class; querying current or future broadcast information; matching the broadcast information with the ranking of channels or programs; and recommending to the user a favorite channel or program list with a predetermined degree of match. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150341684 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WEB SPIKE ATTRIBUTION - Systems and methods are disclosed that measure web activity bursts after ad broadcasts that may be sent to multiple persons. One system uses a cookie-less/cookie-optional, anonymous/personal-identification-not-required, method for web-based conversion tracking that will work on broadcast media systems such as television, and could also be applied to measuring spikes from email, radio, and other forms of advertising where an episodic ad event is broadcast to multiple parties, and where responses occur in a batch after the broadcast. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150341688 | SHARING BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS BETWEEN DEVICES - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a set-top box having a controller to present media content at a presentation device as directed by a user, monitor the media content consumed by the user, detect a first behavioral pattern based on the media content consumed by the user, transmit the detected first behavioral pattern to a communication device of the user, receive from the communication device a second behavioral pattern, and identify media content correlating to the second behavioral pattern. The communication device can be adapted to adjust communication operations according to the detected first behavioral pattern. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150341693 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information processing device includes: a recommendation information obtaining section obtaining information on a recommended content to be recommended to a user for viewing, the information being information transmitted from an external device or information stored in a predetermined storage area in advance; and a character display section displaying a predetermined character on a screen, and displaying information indicating that the character has interest in the recommended content on the screen. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150350698 | DIGITAL DATA INSERTION APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR USE WITH COMPRESSED AUDIO/VIDEO DATA - Methods and apparatus for inserting data a compressed data bitstream are disclosed. An example method includes inserting audience measurement data in a compressed bitstream by eliminating a first type of data within the compressed data bitstream, packing a second type of data to occupy a location within the compressed data bitstream from which the first type of data is eliminated, and inserting the audience measurement data in a predetermined location within the compressed data bitstream that is expanded as a result of the packing of the second type of data to form a modified compressed data bitstream. The example method also includes generating the ratings information based on the modified compressed data bitstream. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150358652 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING ONLINE VIDEOS - Systems and methods for evaluating online videos. One method includes receiving a URL; determining a URL type; detecting whether the URL includes one or more videos; determining at least one of a size of the video, a position of the video on a web page of the web page URL, whether the video is set to autoplay, and whether the video is set to mute; computing a score based on one or more of the size of the video, the position of the video on the web page of the web page URL, whether the video is set to autoplay, and whether the video is set to mute; obtaining at least two frames of at least part of the video, wherein each frame is obtained at one or more predetermined intervals during playback of the video; and classifying each detected video based on the at least two frames. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150358655 | ANALYZING INCOMING DIGITAL SIGNAL AT SET-TOP-BOX (STB) TO PROVIDE VALUE ADDED FEATURES FOR VIEWERS - Disclosed herein are a system and a method for performing real time content analysis at a Set-Top-Box (STB) so as to identify contents/programs that match preferences set by the user. The system provides option for the user to provide inputs required for content analyzes in any suitable form such as audio/video/image/text, through any suitable internal/external input means. The user can also configure at least one user preference as active configuration based on which the system can perform the content analysis. The system analyzes contents as and when they are received at the STB to identify a match. If a match is detected, the system triggers any alert of a pre-configured type to notify the user of the content alert. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150358656 | INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD - An information providing system includes a television receiver, a user terminal, and a connection state management server each connectable to a network. The user terminal can execute a program for connecting with the television receiver. The connection state management server obtains connection state information including an identifier of the television receiver and an identifier of the user terminal, through a network from one of the television receiver and the user terminal connected to each other. Further, the connection state management server scores a degree of relevance representing a level of relevance between the television receiver and the user terminal connected to each other, based on the obtained connection state information. Furthermore, the connection state management server provides the scored degree of relevance to a request source in response to a request from an outside. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150358667 | Mobile Remote Media Control Platform Apparatuses and Systems - The MOBILE REMOTE MEDIA CONTROL PLATFORM APPARATUSES AND SYSTEMS (“MR-Control”) transforms TV program schedule listing information and user channel selection via MR-Control components, into TV audience viewing data and ad effects data. A system is disclosed, comprising: a memory; a processor disposed in communication with said memory, and configured to issue a plurality of processing instructions stored in the memory, wherein the processor issues instructions for: obtaining TV program schedule listing data; providing the obtained TV program schedule listing data to a user mobile device; receiving an indication of user channel selection; determining an ad associated with the determined media program; providing a survey question related to the determined ad to the user mobile device; and receiving a user response to the survey question. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150358677 | Dynamic Content Ratings - According to some aspects, methods and systems may include determining that events associated with requests or accessing content items have occurred. The methods and systems may also include authorizing transmission of the content items to the requesting devices based on credential information associated with the requests, and determining a viewership quantity metric associated with the requests. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150358682 | METHOD FOR ADDRESSING ON-DEMAND TV PROGRAM CONTENT ON TV SERVICES PLATFORM OF A DIGITAL TV SERVICES PROVIDER - Video content is uploaded via the Internet to a video-on-demand (VOD) server identified by a title and a hierarchical address of categories and subcategories for categorizing the title. The VOD server converts and stores the video content at a storage address in a video content database linked to the title. The title is listed in a location of an electronic program guide (EPG) using the same categories and subcategories as in its hierarchical address. Any TV subscriber can access the EPG and navigate through its categories and subcategories to find a title for viewing on the TV. This can enable many, new blogging or podcasting-like programs by popular “Hosts” to be self-published on the Internet and readily navigated for display on TV. The EPG can also store TV program addresses as bookmarks and allow them to be shared with other subscribers or with friends and contacts online by sending to their email addresses. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150363817 | Method and System for Online Audience Development and Advertising - This invention is a method and system of audience delivery for content providers to build or share their audiences directly with content creators. A mobile video and audience engagement product connects content creator platforms and content provider platforms. This invention provides a quantifiable high quality discovery and appeal for the audience of content providers, to the specifications of content creators who seek to acquire audience attention from content providers. The invention integrates and delivers to content providers and content creators a simultaneous, mutual, and measurable value previously unavailable. The invention delivers unique data metrics. The invention allows discovery and distribution of multi-channel and multi-content distribution, with a numerical score for how appealing a campaign is to viewers. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150365729 | Personalized Generation of Watch List of Shows in a Video Delivery System - Particular embodiments provide a watch list of shows to users. The watch list is personalized for each user. Also, the watch list is dynamically organized to predict an order the user will want to watch the shows. Particular embodiments analyze historical user behavior with respect to the timing for recurring releases of the episodes for shows to determine the order of the shows in the watch list. The watch list is organized in a way that a user may select a “watch all” button where unseen episodes for the shows in the watch list are all played to the user in an order that is predicted to be the order in which the user would want to watch the shows. Providing the watch all button makes it important to predict the order of the shows accurately. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150373396 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENGAGEMENT AND DISTRIBUTION OF MEDIA CONTENT - Disclosed is a system and method for distributing media content including an engagement system, the engagement system including at least one advertisement server, the at least one advertisement server including at least one memory and at least one processor, a content system, the content system including at least one memory and at least one processor, and a user system, the user system being communicatively connected to the engagement system and content system, and the user system configured to receive at least one ad stamp from at least one of the engagement system and the content system. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150382057 | CONTENT CONSUMPTION MONITORING - Monitoring consumption of media content on a device may include receiving a media content playback event at a content consumption device, generating a content consumption notification message including subscriber information, content consumption device information, media content playback event identifier, and media content information, and transmitting the generated consumption notification message to a content consumption monitoring system. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150382063 | Processing Audio-Video Data to Produce Metadata - A system for processing audio-video metadata for each of multiple portions of AV content to produce an output signal for an individual user, comprises an input for receiving multi-dimensional metadata having M dimensions for each of the portions of AV content and for receiving individual parameters for one or more of the M dimensions for the individual user. An input is arranged to receive general parameters for each of the M dimensions. A processor is arranged to determine a rating value for the individual for each portion of AV content as a function of the multi-dimensional metadata, the individual parameters and the general parameters to produce an output signal, wherein the function includes determining if a confidence value for each individual parameter is above a threshold and an output is arranged to assert the output signal. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150382071 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY ENABLING SUBTITLES BASED ON USER ACTIVITY - Systems and methods for automatically enabling subtitles are provided. A user request is received from a user input device to access a first media asset. A type of activity associated with the user is detected in response to receiving the user request. The type of activity is cross-referenced with a database of activity types associated with subtitles stored in a storage device. A subtitles setting is automatically enabled when the subtitles setting is disabled, in response to determining that the type of activity associated with the user is associated with subtitles. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20160007059 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH A MEDIA PROGRAM - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an apparatus having a processor adapted to receive a message from a portable communication device communicatively coupled to a set-top box presenting a media program and to retrieve from the message a media descriptor associated with the media program. The processor is further adapted to identify according to the media descriptor one or more images of one or more performers commonly presented in the media program, to monitor one or more frames of a live media feed including the media program, and compare the one or more human figures to the one or more images of performers. The processor can also be adapted to recognize a performer from the comparison, to retrieve information associated with the performer, and to transmit the information to the portable communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160007065 | USING CLUSTER COMPUTING FOR GENERATING PERSONALIZED DYNAMIC VIDEOS - A method of sharing user information based on user preferences between entities sharing the same users and offering goods or services to the users via a video based medium, the method being of the type where a first entity, gathers user preference data on a user based on the activities of the user with said first entity, the first entity storing the user preference data linked with one or more user details; the first entity sharing the user preference data and the user details with an intermediary entity; the intermediary entity identifying the user on a network of a second entity at a first time based on the one or more user details; the intermediary entity placing a cookie on the user computer containing identification details and preferences; and the intermediary entity and the second entity sharing details relating to the user based on the cookie; the method comprising the steps of the second entity identifying the user on the network of the second entity at a second time based on synchronized details relating to the user; and the second entity creating a version of a digital video based the user preference data the version comprises a broadcast quality digital video having a modification adapted to be associated with the user preference data that relates to the users. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160014459 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STRATEGIC CHANNEL PLACEMENT BASED ON PURCHASING INFORMATION | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160014461 | Content Viewing Tracking | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160014467 | REMINDING METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PROGRAM BROADCASTING AND DISPLAY DEVICE | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160014468 | SOCIAL DELIVERY OF IPTV STREAMS | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160021407 | DIGITAL TELEVISION CHANNEL TRENDING - Channel trending, including determining a number of viewers watching a multimedia program, is achieved in a digital television network. Cached multimedia frames that correspond to portions of the multimedia program are maintained, for example, on a device located on an edge (i.e., in a network edge device) of the digital television network. In response to a request from a client device (e.g., a set-top box) to receive the multimedia program, cached multimedia frames are fed from the edge device to the client device. Upon a seamless transfer or handoff resulting in a simulcast replicator or multicast replicator providing further portions of the multimedia program, a signal (e.g., a simple network management protocol TRAP statement) is sent to a viewership statistic server for incrementing a counter. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160029054 | INTEREST PREDICTION - System and methods for providing access to particular media content. First media content may be output for presentation by a display device. Second media content other than the first media content may be monitored. A determination may be made as to whether the second media content has a priority greater than the first media content. Access to the second media content for presentation by the display device may be provided. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160029055 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR PROACTIVE CONTENT CUSTOMIZATION - A method, system and server for providing customized multimedia services to a user by calculating the engagement level for the user based on detected events. Said events can be generated as a result of user activity in a first user device (for example a TV) or in other user devices (for example, a laptop, an smart phone). The proposed solution is adaptable, configurable and reacts on real-time to current user attitude. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160029057 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING MEDIA ASSET RECOMMENDATIONS FOR A GROUP - Systems and methods are described herein for providing media recommendations for a group. A media guidance application may identify a group comprising at least a first user and a second user and select a media asset of which the first and second users have previously accessed less than a duration of the media asset. For example, each of the first and the second users may have watched only a respective portion of the media asset. The media guidance application may determine a first amount of the media asset duration that the first user has accessed the media asset and a second amount of the media asset duration that the second user has accessed the media asset. Based on the first and second amounts of the media asset duration, the media guidance application may provide a recommendation for the media asset to the group. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160029061 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF INTERACTIVE PRODUCTION MARKETING - A viewer of broadcast media requests or receives programming content including advertising over the Internet. The production system manipulates the programming content including the advertising with one or more computer processors to create a video broadcast based on input received over the Internet. The programming content promotes products or services by inserting advertisements or promotional material into the video broadcast based on one or more user interests. In addition, the production system transmits to the user the customized production with the inserted advertisements and promotional material embedded therein. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160029069 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DISPLAYING CONTENT - An indication that a user is accessing an online resource is received from a user terminal. The online resource provides an item of primary content for display on the user terminal with an associated size control, wherein the associated size control, when activated by the user, is configured to cause the item of primary content to occupy substantially all of the display area. The operation of the size control is modified, wherein at least partly in response to the user activating the size control: the item of primary content will be increased in size but will not occupy substantially all of the display area so as to leave room on the user terminal display area to display a first plurality of items of supplementary content or representations thereof, or the plurality of items of supplementary content or representations thereof will be caused to overlay the primary content. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160029098 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING MEDIA ASSET RECOMMENDATIONS - A method for generating recommendations for a group of users is disclosed. The method includes providing a display of a plurality of user representations respectively representing users; receiving a selection of at least two of the user representations to form a group; providing a display of at least one recommendation for a media asset after the group has been formed; and providing a display of an indicator indicating that a user representation in the group is selected as an allowed user representation in the group for selecting one of the at least one recommendation for receipt by user devices respectively associated with the user representations in the group. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160037195 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHOD FOR PROVIDING SERVICES BASED ON USER'S INTENT - A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus may include a display configured to display a content, a detector configured to acquire feature information of a user in the vicinity of the display apparatus and surrounding environment information and a controller configured to acquire state information of the display apparatus, determine a control command corresponding to an intent of the user based on at least one of feature information of the acquired user, surrounding environment information and state information of the display apparatus, and change at least one of the content and a setting of the display apparatus based on the control command. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160044357 | PERSONALIZED CHANNEL RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A personalized channel recommendation method includes recording video programs of a plurality of channels, extracting image features of the recorded video programs of the plurality of channels, and storing the extracted image features of the recorded video programs of the plurality of channels in a feature database. The method also includes obtaining image feature data extracted from a video program being viewed by at least one user of a user device on a current channel, and detecting that the video program being watched by the user is an undesired program and determining a channel number of a channel of the video program being watched based on the image feature data and the feature database. Further, the method includes determining channel recommendation including at least one desired channel to be switched to from the undesired program, and generating an adaptive TV guide for the user to skip the undesired program and to switch to the desired channel. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160044378 | PREDICTED CONCURRENT STREAMING PROGRAM SELECTION - Embodiments provide an apparatus, a system, and a method. A method includes determining a characteristic of a streaming content selected by a user and currently being displayed. The method also includes identifying a concurrently available streaming content in response to the determined characteristic. The method further includes saving at least a portion of the identified concurrently available streaming content. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160050447 | METHOD OF OPERATING A CHANNEL RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - A method of operating a channel recommendation system with a system for providing channel recommendations over a network, the system including a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory containing programming code to: provide a channel recommendation bid interface at a service provider server of a television service; receive a channel recommendation bid request on the channel recommendation bid interface; determine at the service provider server of the television service at least a first subscriber; determine at the service provider server at least one channel based on the channel recommendation bid request and based on real time viewership information of the television service; associate at the service provider server the determined channel with the determined first subscriber; and provide from the service provider server to a subscriber display device of the first subscriber a recommendation link to the determined channel. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160050461 | DIGITAL TELEVISION WITH SOCIAL NETWORKING APPLICATIONS - A multimedia processing apparatus includes a controller and a network module. The controller controls the multimedia processing apparatus to perform an application by setting control parameters to sub modules of the multimedia processing apparatus. The network module communicates to a social networking service server through a network. The controller is configured to generate and transmit at least one of setting information, favorite information and current viewing channel information to the social networking service server through the network module and the network. The setting information, the favorite information and current viewing channel information includes control parameters. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160057472 | PROVIDING ON-DEMAND AUDIENCE BASED ON NETWORK - A device receives, from a client device, a first request associated with target audience criteria and a time constraint. Based on the target audience criteria, the device sends, to an information device, a network state request. In response to the network state request, the device receives, from the information device, a network state response including user data associated with user devices. Based on the network state response, the device determines a predicted network state, including predicted user data associated with the user devices, associated with the time constraint. Based on the predicted network state and the target audience criteria, the device determines a predicted quantity of user devices associated with both the target audience criteria and the time constraint. The device sends, to the client device, a first response based on the determination of the predicted quantity of user devices. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160057480 | GLOBAL PANEL - The present disclosure is related to methods and systems of displaying content on a television, including: receiving an indication associated with a selection by a user; determining, based on the received indication, a global panel to display via the television; retrieving from memory, a first content information for display in the global panel; and displaying, via the television, the retrieved content information in the specified global panel. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160057489 | POWER AWARE ADAPTATION FOR VIDEO STREAMING - Power aware adaptation for a power aware video streaming system may be based on the complexity information conveyed in different ways. A complexity level of a data stream, such as a video data stream, may be selected as a function of a remaining battery-power of a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and on a state set of a plurality of state sets that may be stored and/or managed by the WTRU. These state sets may correspond to, for example, different content sources and/or different complexity estimation algorithms and may be used to select the complexity level of the data stream. The data stream may then be received at the selected complexity level. The complexity level and/or a bitrate of the data stream may be adapted to accommodate, for example, the remaining battery power and/or other circumstances. The adaptation may be customized according to the objectives of use cases. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160057496 | CONTENT RECOMMENDATIONS - Content recommendations are described. In an implementation, feedback collected from a user is used to determine favored characteristics of particular items of musical content. One or more other items of content, which are not music, are identified that correspond to the favored characteristics. The identified one or more other items of content are recommended to the user. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160065999 | Companion Ads - According to aspects of the technology there are provided a computer-implemented method for distributing content from one or more content sources over a communications network to a plurality of content players each associated with a user of a content distribution system, the method comprising: receiving a content directory associated with a plurality of content items of the one or more content sources, the content directory comprising content location data for the plurality of content items and information associated with each content item; retrieving the content items using the received user content location data from the one or more content sources for seamless playback of the selected content items; associating the content items with one or more related content items; and distributing the one or more related content items to each of the plurality of content players when the content item is being played back. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160066001 | DYNAMIC SYNCHRONIZATION OF MEDIA STREAMS WITHIN A SOCIAL NETWORK - A method of synchronizing first and second streams of a multimedia content program is operable for determining a temporal difference indicative of a relative timing between first and second streams of the program, the first stream being provided to a first multimedia processing resource (MPR) and the second stream being provided to a second MPR. The method includes manipulating at least one of the streams to reduce the temporal difference until the temporal difference is less than a predetermined threshold and enabling a viewer of the first stream to interact with a viewer of the second stream regarding the program. Interactions are visually detectable on a first display screen corresponding to the first MPR. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160066021 | USER INTERFACE WITH CONTENT FILTERING AND/OR SOCIAL NETWORKING INTEGRATION - On a device with an internet protocol network connection, an application is provided that allows a user to watch internet protocol television on the device. While the user is watching a first live internet protocol television program via the application on the device, an accurate current list of second through Nth live internet protocol television programs that are available to be watched by the user is displayed. The device could include, for example, a gaming console, a media streamer, or the like. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160066023 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING VIDEO ON DEMAND IN AN INTELLIGENT TELEVISION - An intelligent television can provide various interfaces for providing video-on-demand (VOD). The user interfaces include unique visual representations and organizations that allow the user to utilize the intelligent television more easily and more effectively. Particularly, the user interfaces pertain to the display of VOD content and better organizations thereof. Further, the user interfaces provide unique process of transitioning between the VOD content. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160066025 | IN-HOME SMART VIDEO CACHE - A method, performed by a computer device, may include determining one or more frequently watched television channels associated with a customer's account. The method may further include obtaining content associated with the one or more frequently watched television channels via multicast transmission units from a video serving office associated with a television services provider; converting the multicast transmission units into video segments playable by a media playing device; storing the video segments in a cache associated with the computer device; detecting a selection of a television channel associated with the obtained content made via the media playing device; and providing the stored video segments to the media playing device, in response to detecting the selection of the television channel associated with the obtained content. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160066027 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING LOCAL STORAGE OF ON-DEMAND CONTENT - On-demand systems and methods are provided to manage locally-stored on-demand content. A user's equipment controls the deletion of and/or access to on-demand content from a local storage device based on constraining criteria that may include rental conditions, dynamic factors, and keys. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160066039 | PRIVACY-PRESERVING RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - A method and system of recommending content and targeting advertisements for one or more users is provided. The system includes an aggregator that is connected to the one or more users and collects rich user data therefrom. The method includes collecting rich user data from one or more users; building one or more user profiles corresponding to the one or more users; storing the one or more user profiles in a memory database; requesting one or more content profiles from one or more providers; receiving the one or more content profiles; determining whether one of the user profiles is a target user profile for one of the content profiles based on the rich user data associated with the target user profile; and delivering content programs associated with the content profiles to the target user. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160066063 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRESENTING DYNAMIC MEDIA CONTENT - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a set top box (STB) comprising a controller to analyze scheduled media content with limited temporal accessibility provided by a content provider, select a portion of the media content based on the analysis of the media content and a recipient media device to receive the portion of the media content, transmit the portion of the media content to a DVR to store the portion of the media content, and transmit a metadata pointer associated with the portion of the media content to a server. A request to accept the portion of the media content is received by the recipient media device via the server, and the portion of the media content is retrieved from the DVR by the server based on the metadata pointer when the recipient media device accepts the request. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160080789 | TELEVISION AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS - Television transmissions are received at multiple locations across a large area. Advertisements are identified, harvested and tagged from within in the television transmissions. The advertisements are made into smaller representations (“fingerprinted”) and are assigned identifiers and media plans are determined for the advertisements. Smart TVs use the advertisement representations to identify advertisements in television content received by the smart TVs. The smart TVs report the advertisement identifiers and identifiers of shows in the television content received by the smart TVs. The television content and advertisements as rendered by the smart TVs are categorized as live, timeshifted, on-demand, over-the-top, and the like. The advertisements are categorized as occurring in national or regional ad slots. The data from the smart TVs is used to determine ad impressions, gross rating points, and target rating points. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160080790 | Targeted advertisements selected on the basis of an online user profile and presented with media presentations related to that profile - In an automatic, computer-implemented method, a selected television advertisement is presented automatically in association with a television program or channel. A relationship is identified between an online user profile and the television program or channel, and the television advertisement is selected based at least in part on information from the online user profile. The selected television advertisement is presented, in association with the television program or channel that is identified as being related to the online user profile, via a set-top box having a corresponding set-top box identifier that is associated with the online user profile. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160080804 | MONITORING MEDIA PLAYBACK - A method of monitoring media playback includes outputting media content from a server over a network to a client device, and receiving at the server from the client device, a plurality of beacon signals, each beacon signal having at least one pair of timing data items. A first data item in the pair represents a point in time in the media content and a second data item in the pair represents a time indicated by a real time clock of the client device at which time the part of media content corresponding to the point in time was being played by the client device. The at least one of processed or stored beacon signals are at the server so as to monitor the playback of the media content by the client device. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160080806 | DEVICE STATE CHECKING SYSTEM, DEVICE STATE CHECKING METHOD, SERVER DEVICE, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - [Object] To allow a server to check a change in a device state via a communication terminal device even in the case where a display device does not include a function of detecting its device state that changes in response to a user operation and of making a notification. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160080812 | PROGRAM EXTRACTION APPARATUS AND METHOD - According to one embodiment, a program extraction apparatus includes an acquirer, a setting unit, a first calculator and an extractor. The acquirer acquires a viewing history including information on at least one program viewed by each of users, and an area code indicating a location of the each of users. The setting unit sets a range of a target area by using the area code. The first calculator calculates, for each program included in the viewing history of at least one user belonging to the target area, a viewing amount indicating how much the program was viewed to obtain a local area viewing amount. The extractor extracts at least one program by referring to the local area viewing amount. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160080813 | CLIENT-SIDE MULTIMEDIA CONTENT TARGETING SYSTEM - A client-side multimedia content targeting system schedules the recording, storing, and deleting of multimedia content on a client system storage device. The system accepts as input a prioritized list of program viewing preferences which is compared with a database of program guide objects that indicate when programs of interest are actually broadcast. The viewer's client system locally retains the viewer's preferences and other personal information that the viewer has entered and is sent targeting information relating to program guide objects by a server. Using the viewer's preferences and personal information, the client system creates a viewer profile, which is used with the targeting information by the client system to record content that is within the viewer profile. The described client-based form of targeting can be applied to almost any multimedia situation, including, but not limited to: TV shows, movies, advertisements, product and service offerings, music, radio, audio, etc. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160080814 | System and Method for Providing Program Recommendations Through Multimedia Searching Based on Established Viewer Preferences - A system and method is disclosed for processing viewer profiles and program metadata from a number of sources to provide viewing suggestions and recommendations to one or more viewers. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160080819 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CREATING AND MANAGING MULTI PARTICIPANT SESSIONS - A method of creating a multi participant session among a plurality of viewers of media content. The method comprises automatically identifying which media content is currently presented on a plurality of client terminals of a plurality of subscribers, receiving, from a first subscriber, a first selection indicative of a template of a multi participant session object and a second selection indicative of a group from the plurality of subscribers, creating a multi participant session object adapted for simultaneous presentation with the media content according to first and second selections and establishing a multi participant session among at least one member of the group and the first subscriber using the multi participant session object. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160086037 | THEMATIC RECOMMENDATIONS - In one example, a content theme recommendation system may include a content recommendation server configured to: generate a plurality of themes with respect to multiple contents, calculate similarities between the plurality of themes, collect content viewing logs for one or more of the multiple contents from a user device, convert the content viewing logs into theme viewing logs based on metadata for the plurality of themes, and provide one or more recommended theme to the user device based on the theme viewing logs and the similarities between the plurality of themes; and the user device configured to receive one or more recommended theme from the content recommendation server. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160088322 | Video Quality of Experience Based on Video Quality Estimation - Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate an analysis and control of video quality of experience (VQoE) of services delivered to one or more client devices. A content version segment may be selected for delivery to a client device based upon an estimation of the video quality experienced by the client device and the bandwidth available for delivering content to the client device. Video quality estimation may be based upon information associated with the encoding of a media stream coupled with one or more parameters of the client device receiving the media stream. Video quality estimation for one or more client devices may be aggregated and displayed to a service operator and/or may be used to inform content selection decisions in an adaptive bit-rate delivery method. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160088331 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NETWORK BASED ADAPTIVE STREAMING - A method and apparatus for streaming Over-the-Top (OTT) content on a network to subscribers is described. A digital video transport stream of an item of the OTT content is obtained via unicast streaming methods of a resolution and bit rate selected from an available set of different resolutions and bit rates for the digital video transport stream. The digital video transport stream of the selected resolution and bit rate is transmitted in the form of an IP multicast over the network to subscribers. Bandwidth utilization of the network is monitored so that switching of the bit rate to a different bit rate for the digital video transport stream can be controlled to provide adaptive rate control of the IP multicast. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160088332 | ADVERTISEMENT SELECTION BASED ON DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION INFERRED FROM MEDIA ITEM PREFERENCES - A content server monitors media preferences of a user associated with a partial user profile specifying partial demographic information about the user. The content server deconstructs the monitored media preferences to identify preferences of the user for musicological features of the media items. The content server infers profile information missing from the partial user profile responsive to the preferences of the user for musicological features of the media items, the inferring using baseline information associating profile information of a plurality of baseline users with preferences for musicological features of media items. The content server selects an advertisement using the inferred profile information, and provides the selected advertisement to a client device used by the user. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160088362 | CONTENT PLAYBACK DEVICE AND ADVERTISEMENT DISPLAY METHOD FOR CONTENT PLAYBACK DEVICE - While executing a television viewing APP, an engine ( | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160088365 | VIDEO RECEPTION DEVICE, VIDEO RECOGNITION METHOD AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION DISPLAY SYSTEM - Video recognition processing regarding a video signal input from an outside is performed. Hence, video reception device configured to transmit/receive data through communication network includes video recognition unit. The video recognition unit is configured to perform at least one of: online matching processing for generating second content recognition information from a partial video extracted by video extraction unit, transmitting the second content recognition information to video recognition device so as to request video recognition device to perform video recognition processing; and local matching processing for collating the second content recognition information with first content recognition information included in a local database stored in storage unit. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160094876 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO SELECTIVELY REPORT MEDIA DETECTIONS IN REAL-TIME - Methods and apparatus to selectively report media detections in real-time are disclosed. An example apparatus includes memory to store a media identifier corresponding to media designated for real-time reporting; a detector to obtain media identifying information from a presentation generated by a media presentation device at a presentation time; and a reporter to, when (1) the obtained media identifying information corresponds to the stored media identifier and (2) the presentation time indicates that the presentation is live, convey a detection indication to a collection facility without delay, and when (1) the obtained media identifying information does not correspond to the stored media identifier or (2) the presentation time indicates that the presentation is not live, designate the detection indication for a delayed conveyance to the collection facility. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160094878 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING METADATA LOG FOR VIDEO DATA - Various aspects of a device and a method for generating metadata logs for video data are disclosed herein. The video data is played back and one or more control signals are received from one or more electronic devices, while the video data is being played back. One or more metadata logs to be associated with the playback of the video data are generated based on the received one or more control signals. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160100221 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREVENTING ABANDONMENT OF WEB-BASED VIDEO CONTENT - A system and method for generating abandonment profiles for web-based video content. The method comprises: monitoring user interactions with a video content item; generating at least one abandonment metric based on the monitored user interactions, wherein each abandonment metric represents a feature associated with abandonment of the video content item; and generating an abandonment profile including the at least one abandonment metric. | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160105698 | CHANNEL-BASED LIVE TV CONVERSION - Several embodiments include an Internet-based video delivery system that retains channel browsing capabilities. The video delivery system can include a backend server system. The backend server system can receive input feeds from channel programming of content providers. The backend server system can encode the input feeds into video streams deliverable over the Internet. The backend server system can transmit a video stream to multiple user devices in substantially real-time. The backend server system can also record the video stream in a media storage protected by an authentication engine. The backend server system can then generate a channel-side control interface, available to an authorized account associated with the content providers, to enable remote management of live distribution of the video streams and/or on-demand distribution of the recorded video streams. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160105699 | System and Method for Audience Media Planning for Tune-In - A system and method determines an audience media planning for tune-in for a target program. The method includes receiving viewing information for a plurality of programs watched by a plurality of viewers where each of the programs has a respective character information. The method includes generating affinity information between each of the programs among other programs where the affinity information indicates a similarity value based upon the character information. The method includes receiving an input of a target program having a target character information. The method includes determining a first probability value between the target program and a first one of the programs indicating a first likelihood that a first one of the viewers of the first program will watch the target program. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160105700 | USING SECOND SCREEN DEVICES TO AUGMENT MEDIA ENGAGEMENT METRICS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for using second screen devices to augment media engagement metrics. In one aspect, a method includes accessing user activity data describing user activities performed by a user on a first user device during a first time period, and accessing data describing presentation of one or more content items during the first time period on second user devices. For the first user device, determining based on the user activity data, for each of a plurality of second time periods that are sub-periods of the first time period, a first level of user engagement with the first user device, and determining, based on the user activity data, for each second time period that is a sub-period of the first time period, a second level of user engagement with the one or more content items presented. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160105715 | SET-TOP DISK HEALTH DIAGNOSTICS - Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to monitor for and alert the occurrence of pre-failure indicators at a set-top box (STB) disk. Results of self-monitoring tests, short tests, and maximum/minimum performance tests may be used to identify the potential for a STB disk failure. Moreover, critical error events at the STB may be logged, and the health of the STB disk may be determined based on the logged critical error events. Test results and critical error event logs may be used to predict an impending failure of a STB disk, and a notification may be output to a user or technician indicating the potential need to replace the STB or STB disk. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160105720 | Device Context-Based Methods and Systems for Providing a Personalized Interaction Experience with a Media Service - A system detects a first activity performed by a first user with respect to a media service while the first user is logged in to the media service with a particular user account and a second activity performed by a second user with respect to the media service while the second user is logged in to the media service with the particular user account, determines that the first activity is performed within a first device context and that the second activity is performed within a second device context, includes, based on the determination, the first activity in a local activity set associated with the first device context, the local activity set including one or more activities performed with respect to the media service exclusively in the first device context, and uses the local activity set to provide a personalized interaction experience with the media service within the first device context. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160105721 | SUBSCRIBER CHARACTERIZATION SYSTEM WITH FILTERS - A subscriber characterization system with filters in which the subscriber's selections are monitored, including monitoring of the time duration programming is watched, the volume at which the programming is listened to, and any available information regarding the type of programming, including category and sub-category of the programming. The raw subscriber selection data is then processed to eliminate data associated with irrelevant activities such as channel surfing, channel jumping, or extended periods of inactivity. The actual subscriber selection data is used to form program characteristics vectors. The programming characteristics vectors can be used in combination with the actual subscriber selection data to form a subscriber profile. Heuristic rules indicating the relationships between programming choices and demographics can be applied to generate additional probabilistic subscriber profiles regarding demographics and programming and product interest. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160105722 | VIDEO PUSHING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM - A video pushing method, a video pushing apparatus, and a video pushing system that recommend video to a user more precisely are described. An identity of a terminal device is received. User information associated with the identity is acquired where the user information includes personal information of a user and a viewing history of the user. Video content is selected according to the user information, and the selected video content is pushed to a smart television. The smart television plays video according to the video content. Further, a current user may be automatically identified according to an identity of a terminal device. Video content is selected for the user according to the user information, and the video content is pushed to a smart television and played. In this way, video content can be recommended to the user more precisely. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160112735 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING AND MANAGING USER PROFILES - Provided are methods and systems whereby a user device can monitor the attributes of content presented to a plurality of users. The user device can monitor interaction between each of the plurality of users and one or more of the content and the user device. The user device can generate a plurality of profile clusters based on one or more of the monitored attributes and the monitored interactions over a time period. The user device can generate a plurality of user profiles based on the plurality of profile clusters. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160112736 | CLIENT-SERVER ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE - A client-server interactive television program guide system is provided. An interactive television program guide client is implemented on user television equipment. The interactive television program guide provides users with an opportunity to define expressions that are processed by the program guide server. The program guide server may provide program guide data, schedules reminders, schedules program recordings, and parentally locks programs based on the expressions. Users' viewing histories may be tracked. The program guide server may analyze the viewing histories and generates viewing recommendations, targets advertising, and collects program ratings information based on the viewing histories. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160112737 | On-Demand Video News Programming - Systems and technologies for providing an on-demand personalized news program are disclosed. The system and technologies allow an end user to create a news program that best matches the end user's tastes and preferences. To achieve this, one aspect of the disclosure relates to systematic personalization. Systematic personalization involves determining an end user's interests based on an assessment of user behavior as it relates to accessible content. The personalization process may also provide content to users that have been editorially curated. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160112761 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING MEDIA ASSET RECOMMENDATIONS USING A NEURAL NETWORK GENERATED BASED ON CONSUMPTION INFORMATION - Systems and methods for maintaining a model representing media asset relationships are provided. A combination of media assets consumed by a first user is identified. A first media asset in the combination is associated with a first vector of values and a second media asset in the combination is associated with a second vector of values and a distance between the first vector and the second vector is a first amount. A determination is made as to whether a second user consumed the combination of media assets. In response to determining that the second user consumed the combination of media assets, the values stored in the first and second media asset vectors are adjusted such that the distance between the first media asset vector and the second media asset vector is reduced to a second amount that is less than the first amount. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160112771 | METHOD OF PROVIDING INFORMATION AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE IMPLEMENTING THE SAME - Disclosed are a method of providing information and an electronic device for implementing the same. The method includes: maintaining a fingerprint database; extracting a fingerprint from broadcasting contents; acquiring content identification information on a stored fingerprint, which matches the extracted fingerprint, from the fingerprint database; transmitting the content identification information to a first external device; receiving additional information related to the content identification information from the first external device; and displaying the additional information. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160112773 | METHOD AND APPARATUS RELATED TO VARIABLE DURATION MEDIA SEGMENTS - A method and apparatus for an adaptive bit rate system. The method may include streaming media content at a server, determining a discontinuity in the streaming media content based on boundaries corresponding to changes in the streaming media content, and dividing the streaming media content into a plurality of variable duration segments, wherein a duration of one of the plurality of variable duration segments is to be adjusted based on the determined discontinuity to cause the one of the plurality of variable duration segments to end at the determined discontinuity in the streaming media content. The method may further include transmitting the plurality of variable duration segments of the streaming media content from the server. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160117718 | Systems and Methods for Planning, Executing, and Reporting a Strategic Advertising Campaign for Television - Systems and methods are disclosed for planning, executing, reviewing, and reporting the results of an advertising campaign to be run on TV. A demand-side platform receives ad slot opportunities from TV programming sources, and analyzes the ad slots to produce a prioritized list of placement opportunities for the advertising campaign to be presented to advertiser/clients. Each ad slot is analyzed with respect to past viewership data and with respect to desired targeting characteristics that may include conventional age and gender targeting, or additionally strategic targeting characteristics. Scores are established for each ad slot with respect to numbers of projected on-target impressions and/or a cost for projected on-target impressions. The scores are sorted to produce the prioritized list. Projected results can be viewed with respect to any or all of network, day, and daypart. After a campaign has completed, viewership data representing actual results is acquired, processed, and reported. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160119675 | PROGRAMMING USER BEHAVIOR REPORTING - Methods and systems for reporting user activity are provided. Sequentially numbering the reports allows for reports being sent at regular intervals to be associated with a timestamp, even if the system clock has not been set. Furthermore, the reporting period may default to an initial value, such as every 24 hours, but receive instructions to be reset to a different value. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160119689 | Systems and Methods for Planning and Executing an Advertising Campaign Targeting TV Viewers and Digital Media Viewers Across Formats and Screen Types - Systems and methods are disclosed for analyzing a fused sample of viewership data to determine a behavior profile of online viewers who watched and/or didn't watch certain TV advertisements, where the TV advertisements are aligned with campaign targeting characteristics desired by an advertiser/client working with a demand side platform. Then, a campaign targeting plan is developed for dividing an advertising budget between digital media and TV impressions. The digital media portion of the campaign profiles Media Properties (MPs) contained in a historical database from past digital advertising campaigns across multiple digital formats and screens, and aligns digital ad placement with MPs having desired targeting characteristics. An optimized apportionment is automatically produced between TV and digital media spending based on an advertiser/client's goals of duplicating or not duplicating viewership of an advertisement between TV and digital media, or alternately based on cost alone. Alternately, the apportionment can be guided interactively. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160127750 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR VERIFYING BROADCAST CONTENT OBJECT IDENTIFICATION BASED ON WEB DATA - An apparatus and method for verifying broadcast content object identification based on web data. The apparatus includes: a web data processor configured to collect and process web data related to broadcast content and create content knowledge information by tagging the web data to the broadcast content; a content knowledge information storage portion configured to store the content knowledge information; and an object identification verifier configured to verify a result of identifying an object contained in the broadcast content, using the content knowledge information. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160127751 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A BROADCASTING SERVICE - A method and an apparatus for providing a broadcasting service are provided. The apparatus of the server includes a communication interface, and a processor configured to receive a social media data from social media server through the communication interface, obtain broadcasting information from the social media data, receive broadcasting viewing log information from at least one electronic device through the communication interface, and control the communication interface to send preference information of at least one broadcasting program determined based on the broadcasting information and the broadcasting viewing log information, to the at least one electronic device. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160127777 | Media Service Personalization Systems and Methods - An exemplary media service personalization system maintains profiles for multiple media service access devices associated with an end-user account with a media service, generates a merged profile based on the profiles for the media service access devices, and directs a communal media service access device associated with the end-user account to personalize the media service based on the merged profile. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160127802 | System and Method for Construction, Delivery and Display of iTV Content - iTV content is created and deployed using a server component adapted to allow content developers to create applications according to an authoring specification that describes a framework for same; a transport component configured to optimize and deliver the applications to one or more clients; and a client component adapted to render the applications through a television so as to permit user interaction therewith. The authoring specification provides for the presentation of content through one or more templates defined therein, allowing application definition and behavior to remain common across multiple client device types, middleware platforms, and/or iTV operating environments. The framework for applications accommodates advertising, promotions, content placement packages and/or programming campaign definitions, so as to permit a selection of a specific advertisement, promotion or content at a time of preparation of the iTV content by the server, and/or a time of execution of the applications by the client. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160134914 | RULE-BASED SELECTION OF CONTENT - An apparatus includes a network interface. The apparatus includes a processor coupled to the network interface. The apparatus further includes memory accessible to the processor. The memory includes instructions that are executable by the processor to perform operations. The operations include receiving user history information associated with customer premise equipment device. The operations include generating a rule associated with a startup screen based on the user history information and based on additional information. The additional information is based on information extrapolated from the user history information and based on external information that is not directly accessed by or provided to the customer premise equipment device. The operations further include initiating a transmission of the rule to the customer premise equipment device. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160134933 | VIDEO CACHING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A JUKEBOX - Systems and methods for managing a plurality of videos associated with one or more of a plurality of communicably coupled jukeboxes over a network, are disclosed. A first digital jukebox of the plurality of communicably coupled jukeboxes, ranks the plurality of videos according to a predetermined criteria. Based, at least in part, on the ranking, the first digital jukebox determines whether to store a video of the plurality of videos in a temporary cache of the first digital jukebox. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160134934 | ESTIMATING AUDIENCE SEGMENT SIZE CHANGES OVER TIME - Methods, computer readable storage media, and systems for estimating and predicting audience segment sizes are provided. An exemplary method receives a request for segment sizes for a defined audience segment, the request indicating one or more traits of visitors of network content and a time range. The method then retrieves audience data based at least in part on the one or more traits and the time range. Next, the method calculates, based at least in part on the retrieved audience data, audience segment population sizes for a plurality of durations in the time range. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160142753 | PREVIEW DETERMINATION - In some examples, a method performed under control of a server may include providing a plurality of preview video candidates of video content configured to be displayed on a plurality of end devices; and determining a first predetermined number of preview video candidates from among the plurality of preview video candidates, based at least in part on a first sale probability of the video content, which is associated with respective ones of the plurality of preview video candidates. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160142754 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO PERFORM REAL-TIME AUDIENCE ESTIMATION AND COMMERCIAL SELECTION SUITABLE FOR TARGETED ADVERTISING - A targeted advertising system selects an asset (e.g., ad) for a current user of a user equipment device (e.g., a digital set top box in a cable network). The system can first operate in a learning mode to receive user inputs and develop evidence that can characterize multiple users of the user equipment device audience. In a working mode, the system can process current user inputs to match a current user to one of the identified users of that user equipment device audience. Fuzzy logic and/or stochastic filtering may be used to improve development of the user characterizations, as well as matching of the current user to those developed characterizations. In this manner, targeting of assets can be implemented not only based on characteristics of a household but based on a current user within that household. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160142768 | CLOSED CAPTION TAGGING SYSTEM - A tagging system provides a mechanism for inserting tags into an audio or video television broadcast stream prior to or at the time of transmission. The tags contain command and control information that the receiver translates and acts upon. The receiver receives the broadcast stream and detects and processes the tags within the broadcast stream which is stored on a storage device that resides on the receiver. Program material from the broadcast stream is played back to the viewer from the storage device. The receiver performs the appropriate actions in response to the tags. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160142773 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - It is an object of the present invention to allow for appropriate control of how to present content during presentation of the content. An information processing apparatus obtains content identification information. Storage means stores operation logs each of which includes both the time at which an operation to control presentation of content was performed during presentation of the content and details of the operation. The information processing apparatus retrieves operation logs corresponding to the obtained content identification information from the storage means. Based on the retrieved operation logs, a tendency of operation changes is identified. In accordance with the tendency, the information processing apparatus generates control information for controlling how to present content. The control information includes details of control and a timing of the control. The information processing apparatus provides the control information. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160142774 | Personalized Content Recommendations Based on Consumption Periodicity - Aspects described herein provide techniques for providing content recommendations such as, for example, recommendations for video content provided by a cable network. The content recommendation techniques described herein determine the extent to which previously consumed content should contribute to content considered for recommendation to a user based on the consumption time of the previously consumed content. The consumption habits of users have been observed to occur at regular intervals. These intervals are employed to adjust contribution factors for the previously consumed content when making content recommendations. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160142775 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING CONTENT AND SOUND SOURCE - The present invention relates to a device and a method for recommending content and a sound source. The present invention, especially in a multimedia device such as a TV which can be used by a plurality of users, can generate channel groups in accordance with channel properties, can recommend appropriate content for each channel group by analyzing users' viewing history type for each channel group, and can acquire user's intent on the basis of user's use history of a sound source, lyrics and music information of the sound source, and the like, thereby providing, on the basis of the user's intent, sound source recommendation information and various reasons for sound source recommendation with respect to the sound source recommendation information. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160150258 | GEOGRAPHICALLY INDEPENDENT DETERMINATION OF SEGMENT BOUNDARIES WITHIN A VIDEO STREAM - A method for creating an announcement stream for a geographic region is provided. The method receives, at a designated computer system, characterizing metadata for a first audio/video stream; analyzes a second audio/video stream to obtain characterizing metadata for the second video stream; compares, with the computer system, the characterizing metadata for the first video stream to the characterizing metadata for the second video stream to generate offset data; and calculates timing information corresponding to segment boundaries for the second video stream using the offset data. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160150275 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING 4K MEDIA CONTENTS OR MOVIES ON DISPLAY DEVICE(S) - The present invention provides a system and method for delivering 4k media contents or movies on display devices such as high definition television via wireless communication. The present invention is a system and method for distributing 4k media contents or movies from data sources to display device through High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI), wherein an interactive wireless network interface is physically connected to High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) to play 4K media contents or movies on an associated display device from the database. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160150280 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO PROJECT RATINGS FOR FUTURE BROADCASTS OF MEDIA - Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to project ratings for future broadcasts of media. Disclosed example methods include normalizing, with a processor, audience measurement data corresponding to media exposure data, social media exposure data and programming information associated with a future quarter to determine normalized audience measurement data. Disclosed example methods also include classifying a media asset based on the programming information to determine a media asset classification. Disclosed example methods also include building, with the processor, a projection model based on a first subset of the normalized audience measurement data, the first subset of the normalized audience measurement data associated with a first time frame relative to the future quarter, the first subset of the normalized audience measurement data based on the media asset classification, and applying, with the processor, the programming information to the projection model to project ratings for the media asset. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160156951 | INTELLIGENT AUTO-TUNING FOR A VIDEO SERVICES SYSTEM | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160156952 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160156957 | MULTIMEDIA DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160156972 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING USERS WHO WATCHED A TELEVISION ADVERTISEMENT | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160156973 | ENHANCED VIDEO PROGRAMMING SYSTEM AND METHOD UTILIZING USER-PROFILE INFORMATION | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160156978 | Automatic Rating Optimization | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160165277 | MEDIA METRICS ESTIMATION FROM LARGE POPULATION DATA - A method, executed by a processor, for estimating media metrics from large population data includes formatting and storing panel data, the panel data comprising observed viewing data of a plurality of individual panelists and demographic data for the plurality of panelists, the panel being drawn from a large population; accessing the large population data, the large population data comprising household-level viewing data and household level demographics; training a model to estimate viewing audience size based on the observed panel data; estimating, using the trained model, audience size for each household in the large population data; estimating a viewing score for each individual viewer in a plurality of households in the large population data; and combining the estimates of audience size and viewing score to produce probabilities that each of the viewers in the household viewed a specific media event. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160165285 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING CONTENT TO A DISPLAY SCREEN - A system and method for delivering content to a display screen is provided. An interactive user interface is provided for display on the screen, and the user interface includes a selection portion with a plurality of selectable objects, each of which is related to a corresponding screen. Such corresponding screens are displayed when the selectable object is browsed or selected. Instances of browsing and selecting of the selectable objects are tracked and recorded, and the subsequently recorded instances are compiled and an analysis is generated therefrom. Digital advertisements are subsequently introduced into the user interface based on the results of the generated analysis, where the digital advertisements are provided as corresponding screens for the selectable objects. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160165287 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO CALCULATE VIDEO-ON-DEMAND AND DYNAMICALLY INSERTED ADVERTISEMENT VIEWING PROBABILTY - Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to calculate video-on-demand viewing probability. Example methods disclosed herein include identifying a first set of households associated with a target set of categories that presented a first media having a first telecast delay, calculating first total tuning minutes and first total exposure minutes for the first set of households, identifying a second set of households that presented the first media having the first telecast delay and having a portion of the target set of categories, the second set of households having second total tuning minutes and second total exposure minutes for each category in the second set of households, calculating a household tuning proportion based on the first and second total tuning minutes, and calculating a household exposure proportion based on the first and second total exposure minutes, and calculating the panelist viewing probability associated with the first telecast delay based on a ratio of the household exposure proportion and the household tuning proportion. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160165289 | GENERATING RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON PROCESSING CONTENT ITEM METADATA TAGS - A device, method, and computer-readable media for managing interrupt times for content items based on metadata encapsulating user behavior. A user controls the playback of content items such as audio or videos. The content items may be episodes in a programming series. Tags are associated with the content items. These tags include metadata having playback time of the received user interactions. In turn, the device processes the tags to identify user interaction that include stop events for the content items. The tags are processed based on a sliding time window. The playback times of the stop events are selected as potential interrupt times that the device may include recommendations for unaired episodes. The selected interrupt times are also used to identify inconsistencies in the metadata. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160165293 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MEDIA CONTENT - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a set-top box having a controller to receive a selection of media content that has finished being broadcast where the selection is of the previously broadcast media content, transmit a request for the media content, and receive the media content for presentation at the display device, where the media content includes a plurality of segments, where one or more of the segments is provided by each of a plurality of digital video recorders (DVR's) that have recorded the media content, where the DVR's are remote from the set-top box, and where the plurality of segments are merged prior to presentation by the set-top box. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160165298 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING A USER REQUEST FOR A WEB RESOURCE, THE WEB RESOURCE BEING ASSOCIATED WITH SEQUENTIALLY SEMANTICALLY LINKED DOCUMENTS - There are discloses a method of and a server for processing a user request for a web resource, the user request received at a server from an electronic device via a communication network. The method can be executed at the server. The method comprises: determining that the web resource comprises a plurality of sequentially semantically linked documents that are potentially responsive to the user request; determining a particular document of the plurality of sequentially semantically linked documents, the particular document being one that the user has completed using, the determination that the user has completed using the particular document being executed by means of: determining that the user has reached an end of the particular document; and if the user has not reached the end of the particular document, determining that the user has reached a pre-determined usage threshold within the particular document; generating a suggest to be displayed to the user on the electronic device, the suggest including a sequentially next document after the particular document. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160165299 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING CHANNEL CONTROL ON A PAIRED DEVICE - A method and a system for facilitating channel control on a paired device are provided. The method includes extracting channel metadata information of each broadcast channel displayed on a display device, if an amount of display time of each broadcast channel exceeds a predetermined value. Further, the method includes transferring the channel metadata information of each viewed broadcast channel to the paired device. The method includes storing the channel metadata information of each viewed broadcast channel. Furthermore, the method includes displaying a plurality of icons on an interactive interface of the paired device, wherein each icon is based on the channel metadata information. Thereby, the method facilitates channel control through the interactive interface on the paired device. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160165306 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONFIRMING CONTENT VIEWING - The present invention relates to a system and method for checking the viewing of content. The system includes: an operating computer including a means for storing at least one piece of combined content, in which first content and at least one piece of second content are combined, and a means for providing a benefit set for the combined content; and a user program including a content viewer means for playing back the combined content, and a signal input means for receiving at least one signal from a viewer when the second content is exposed in the combined content being played back via the content viewer means, and being executed on a user terminal; wherein the operating computer provides the benefit in connection with information of the viewer based on data generated based on the information of the signal transmitted from the user terminal and input to the signal input means. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160165315 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, METHOD OF DISPLAYING CHANNEL LIST PERFORMED BY THE SAME, SERVER, AND CONTROL METHOD PERFORMED BY THE SERVER - A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a display, a communication unit for communicating with a server, and a processor for, if viewer rating metadata calculated based on viewing information of broadcasting content and web content is received from the server, displaying a channel list included in the viewing rating metadata through the display. The channel list is a channel list in which the broadcasting content and the web content are listed in order of viewer ratings. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160165320 | Targeted television advertising based on profiles linked to multiple online devices - A profile provider: (i) associates a primary online device (OD1) with a set-top box (STB); (ii) a location of OD1 at some point in time is estimated to be “near” the STB, thereby establishing a STB proxy location; (iii) one or more secondary online devices (OD2s) are observed to be located “near” the STB proxy location and are associated with the STB; and (iv) a television advertisement is selected to be directed to the STB, which selection is based at least in part on profile information linked to one of the associated OD2s. The method can be particularly advantageous in situations wherein: the STB is not connected to any computer network; the STB is not ever connected to the same local area network as OD1 or OD2; or television service (used by the STB) and online access (used by OD1 and OD2s) are provided by different service providers. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160173914 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CACHING DATA IN MEDIA-ON-DEMAND SYSTEMS | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160173922 | VIDEO-ON-DEMAND DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160173925 | AGGREGATION AND PRESENTATION OF VIDEO CONTENT ITEMS FOR MULTIPLE USERS | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160173935 | AUTOMATIC CHANNEL SELECTION FOR A PLACE-SHIFTING DEVICE | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160173941 | Providing Related Episode Content | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160173955 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING A HYBRID BROADCAST UNICAST TELEVISION | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160182922 | DETECTION OF FAILURES IN ADVERTISEMENT REPLACEMENT | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182955 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RECOMMENDING MEDIA ASSETS | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182974 | PROVIDING CORRELATED PROGRAMMING INFORMATION FOR BROADCAST MEDIA CONTENT AND STREAMING MEDIA CONTENT | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182977 | USER INTERACTION WITH ADVERTISEMENTS ON HYBRID TERMINALS | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160191963 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING VIEWING QUALITY OF MEDIA OBJECTS - Method, system, and programs for assessing viewing quality of media objects (e.g., advertisements) are provided. In one example, information regarding one or more delivery conditions of an advertisement that is served at a user device is received. Viewing quality of the advertisement is estimated based on the one or more delivery conditions. Information regarding one or more advertising pricing parameters related to the advertisement is received. The viewing quality of the advertisement and the one or more advertising pricing parameters are provided. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160191970 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO CORRECT FOR DETERIORATION OF A DEMOGRAPHIC MODEL TO ASSOCIATE DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION WITH MEDIA IMPRESSION INFORMATION - Methods and apparatus to correct for deterioration of a demographic model to associate demographic information with media impression information are disclosed. An example method includes estimating first and second ages of audience members based on demographic information; estimating a third age of an audience member who is not included in the audience members; applying a window function to the second ages to determine a distribution of ages based on the third age; multiplying window values by the first ages to determine corrected first age components; dividing a total of the corrected first age components by a sum of the window values to determine an estimated age of the audience member at a first time; and determining the corrected age of the audience member at a second time based on the estimated age of the audience member at the first time and a time difference between the first and second times. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160192003 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRACKING USER BEHAVIOR USING CLOSED CAPTION TEXT - Methods, systems and devices for characterizing user viewing behavior are described. A method of tracking user viewing includes presenting media content to a user via a media device, the media content including closed-caption information, and determining that a user has initiated, at a first time, a user interface event (e.g., a “trick-mode” event) that modifies a playback rate of the media content. An offset time is determined, corresponding to a difference between the first time and a second time corresponding to an occurrence of a unique string within the closed-caption information Viewing behavior of the user is then characterized based on the media content, the offset time relative to the unique string, and an event type associated with the user interface event. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160192004 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR MEASURING EFFECT OF PROVIDING INFORMATIONAL DATA - Provided is a method, system, and non-transitory recording medium for analyzing the effect of providing informational data. An informational data effect analyzing method implemented in a computer to analyze, through a communication network, the effect of providing informational data that is provided through broadcast media, may include storing, by a processor of the computer, view history information about content corresponding to informational data that is viewed through the broadcast media with respect to the informational data that is provided to terminals of users of the broadcast media through the broadcast media, storing, by the processor, online action information about an online action taken on the Internet in association with the content, and analyzing, by the processor, the informational data effect based on a matching between the view history information and the online action information about the content. | 06-30-2016 |
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| 20160255410 | RECOMMENDATION IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, RECOMMENDATION IMAGE OUTPUT DEVICE, AND RECOMMENDATION IMAGE OUTPUT METHOD | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160381416 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZED CONTENT - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, receiving reaction information from one or more sensors located at a second location that is representative of a reaction by a second user at the second location to the presentation of the personalized content, analyzing the reaction information to determine a response based at least in part on trait information associated with different first users, selecting a second portion of the recorded segments based on a comparison of the determined response with a context identified for each of received recorded segments, and adjusting personalized content to include the selected second portion of the recorded segments. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160381417 | INTELLIGENT RECORDING OF FAVORITE VIDEO CONTENT USING A VIDEO SERVICES RECEIVER - A video services receiver and related operating methods are presented here. The video services receiver is configured to maintain a database that indicates a viewing pattern for a user of the video services receiver. The video services receiver is configured to detect a condition that is inconsistent with the maintained viewing pattern for the user. In response to the detection of an inconsistent condition, the video services receiver records a designated program event included in the viewing pattern for the user, wherein the recording addresses the detected condition. In some scenarios, the receiver buffers the designated program event to allow the user to view the entirety of the buffered program event. In other scenarios, the receiver records the designated program event and sends a notification to the user when the receiver determines that the user is absent or is not viewing any programming from the receiver. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160381418 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING VIEWER INTEREST IN CONTENT AND ADVERTISEMENTS - A method for assessing viewer interest in content and advertisements may include receiving an indication regarding a content playback mode change (e.g., a change from a skip or fast-forward mode to a pause or rewind mode) occurring during playing of a media content segment such as a television program or movie. The method then proceeds to associate the playback mode change with a sub-segment of the television program, such as an advertisement or commercial, and a level of interest of a user in the advertisement or commercial is determined based on the associated content playback mode change. An item, such as an advertisement or promotional offer can be selected to be presented to the user based on the determined level of interest of the user in the advertisement or commercial. Systems for assessing viewer interest in content and advertisements include devices and components configured to perform or enable such methods. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160381419 | SEGMENTATION OF A VIDEO BASED ON USER ENGAGEMENT IN RESPECTIVE SEGMENTS OF THE VIDEO - Systems and methods for segmenting a video based on user engagement in respective segments of the video are presented. In one or more aspects, a system is provided that includes an engagement component configured to receive information regarding respective engagement of a plurality of users in connection with respective segments of a video. The system further includes an analysis component configured to analyze the information and calculate user engagement scores for the respective video segments, wherein the user engagement scores reflect level of the plurality of users' interest regarding the respective video segments, and an identification component configured to identify a subset of the video segments associated with relatively higher user engagement scores in comparison to other video segments. | 12-29-2016 |
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