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Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2021

Filed:

Oct. 23, 2019
Applicant:

Comcast Cable Communications, Llc, Philadelphia, PA (US);

Inventor:

Robert Bress, New Providence, NJ (US);

Assignee:

COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC, Philadelphia, PA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/431 (2011.01); H04N 21/45 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/2668 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4316 (2013.01); H04N 21/2668 (2013.01); H04N 21/4532 (2013.01); H04N 21/812 (2013.01);
Abstract

A content provider may receive an indication for supplemental content to be output to a target audience, determine a first content item to be viewed by the target audience based on one or more characteristics of the target audience, and may send an indication for the supplemental content to be output at a time associated with the output of the first content item. The content provider may determine a quantity of devices which output the supplemental content for a first time and may determine that this quantity of devices is below a target quantity of devices to output the supplemental content for the first time during a particular time period. The content provider may determine a second content item to be viewed by the target audience and may send an indication for the supplemental content to be output at a time associated with output of the second content item.


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