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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2019

Filed:

Aug. 10, 2017
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Kulvir S. Bhogal, Fort Worth, TX (US);

Gregory J. Boss, Saginaw, MI (US);

Sheryl L. Comes, Castle Pines, CO (US);

Rick A. Hamilton, II, Charlottesville, VA (US);

Anne R. Sand, Canon City, CO (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/258 (2011.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); H04N 7/16 (2011.01); H04N 21/45 (2011.01); H04N 21/4784 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/812 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0207 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0241 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); H04N 7/162 (2013.01); H04N 21/25816 (2013.01); H04N 21/25875 (2013.01); H04N 21/44218 (2013.01); H04N 21/44222 (2013.01); H04N 21/4532 (2013.01); H04N 21/4784 (2013.01);
Abstract

An original advertisement is transformed at a first content viewing device into a transferrable incentivized deferred advertisement that itself includes as added encoded data elements a configured incentive, a configured incentive time period within which to obtain the configured incentive, and a reporting instruction that causes an alternative content viewing device to report advertisement viewing back to the first content viewing device. The transferrable incentivized deferred advertisement, that includes the added encoded data elements, is transferred to the alternative content viewing device.


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