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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Andrew R. Jones, Round Rock, TX (US);
Gregory J. Boss, Saginaw, MI (US);
Kevin C. McConnell, Austin, TX (US);
Charles S. Lingafelt, Durham, NC (US);
John E. Moore, Jr., Pflugerville, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and computer-implemented method for using a broadcast medium to transmit messages targeted to and received by only particular individuals or groups within an audience of the broadcast. Messages, such as alerts, polls, and advertisements, may be augmented with one or more addresses corresponding to particular individuals or groups of people with particular activity or demographic qualities. The message may be injected into and even concealed within the stream in a format that may cause an ordinary device to present the stream without having perceptibly changed it, but may allow a smart device to receive the message, determine that it was intended for a user, and present it to the user.