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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:
Sep. 03, 2019

Filed:

Aug. 23, 2016
Applicant:

Ispot.tv, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);

Inventors:

Sean Muller, Bellevue, WA (US);

Scott Happell, Woodinville, WA (US);

Assignee:

ISPOT.TV, INC., Bellevue, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/258 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/44 (2011.01); H04N 21/658 (2011.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); H04N 21/462 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/44218 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0251 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0276 (2013.01); H04N 21/25841 (2013.01); H04N 21/25883 (2013.01); H04N 21/25891 (2013.01); H04N 21/44008 (2013.01); H04N 21/44209 (2013.01); H04N 21/44222 (2013.01); H04N 21/4621 (2013.01); H04N 21/6582 (2013.01); H04N 21/812 (2013.01);
Abstract

Television transmissions are received at multiple locations across a large area. Advertisements may be identified, harvested and tagged from within in the television transmissions. The advertisements may be assigned identifiers; media plans may be determined. Advertisement representations (e.g. fingerprints) may be used to identify advertisements in television content received by the smart TVs. The smart TVs may report the fingerprints along with other identifiers or samples thereof. Television content and advertisements therein as rendered by the smart TVs may be categorized as live, timeshifted, on-demand, over-the-top, and the like. The advertisements may be categorized as occurring in national or local/regional ad slots. The data from the smart TVs may be used to determine ad impressions, gross rating points, and target rating points. View rates for advertisements may also be determined and variations of advertisement may also be prepared.


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