Qualcomm Incorporated

Carla L Riney

Nagaraju Naik

Binita Gupta

Qi Xue

Cherng-Shung Hsu

Ankur Verma

Anthony G Persaud

Eitan Pilipski

Mark R Storch

Rajkumar Pitchaimani

Sachin Shah

John E Tinsman

Methods, systems, and apparatus for synchronizing interactive advertisements with linear advertisements, including: a traffic module configured to generate advertisement schedule information about slots for linear advertisements on channels; an automation module configured to detect cue messages in real-time media, each cue message indicating a respective start time and a respective index of a respective slot for respective linear advertisements, and to forward information about the cue messages; and an interactivity production module configured to receive the advertisement schedule information, the information about the cue messages, and information about interactive sequences, each interactive sequence to be synchronized with a respective spot for an associated linear advertisement, to generate an interactivity event for each respective interactive sequence, to calculate a start time for each respective interactivity event using information about a respective associated cue message, and to forward an activation message with the respective start time for each respective interactivity event.

Synchronization of interactivity with linear advertisement in a mobile broadcast network

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San Diego, CA, United States of America

Carla L Riney