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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:
Mar. 10, 2020

Filed:

Sep. 06, 2013
Applicant:

Time Warner Cable Enterprises Llc, St. Louis, MO (US);

Inventors:

Steve Riedl, Superior, CO (US);

Erik Urdang, Boudler, CO (US);

Tom Gonder, Westminster, CO (US);

Bryan Santangelo, Superior, CO (US);

Brad Jordan, Boulder, CO (US);

Assignee:

TIME WARNER CABLE ENTERPRISES LLC, St. Louis, MO (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/00 (2012.01); H04N 21/45 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/24 (2011.01); H04N 21/658 (2011.01); H04N 21/6587 (2011.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); H04N 21/258 (2011.01); H04N 21/262 (2011.01); H04N 21/2747 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/84 (2011.01); H04N 7/173 (2011.01); H04N 21/2668 (2011.01); H04N 21/854 (2011.01); H04N 21/8543 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4532 (2013.01); G06Q 30/02 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0255 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0258 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0264 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0272 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0276 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0277 (2013.01); H04N 7/17318 (2013.01); H04N 21/2407 (2013.01); H04N 21/25883 (2013.01); H04N 21/2668 (2013.01); H04N 21/26258 (2013.01); H04N 21/2747 (2013.01); H04N 21/44222 (2013.01); H04N 21/6582 (2013.01); H04N 21/6587 (2013.01); H04N 21/812 (2013.01); H04N 21/84 (2013.01); H04N 21/854 (2013.01); H04N 21/8543 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention discloses a system and method for providing targeted advertising in a television distribution system, without the disclosure of personally identifiable information. The system of the present invention comprises an advertisement management system (AMS) operative to monitor the state of one or more clients in the television distribution system and determine when a advertisement is required. The AMS is operative to select one or more features that do not comprise personally identifiable information from a feature repository. The system also comprises an advertisement selection system (ADS) operative to receive the one or more features from the AMS and select an advertisement targeted according to the one or more features.


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