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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2021
Filed:
May. 17, 2018
Charter Communications Operating, Llc, St. Louis, MO (US);
Vipul B. Patel, Great Falls, VA (US);
Jon C. Honhart, Evergreen, CO (US);
Justin O. Tidwell, Greenwood Village, CO (US);
Charter Communications Operating, LLC, St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
A communications system includes content distribution hardware operable to detect presence of a window in a video stream in which to insert an advertisement. Multiple viewers receive and view the video stream. Advertisement management hardware in the communications system receives notification of the window as well as attributes of the viewers receiving the video stream. Based on the attributes associated with viewers, the advertisement manager hardware selects a particular advertisement suitable for the viewers amongst multiple advertisements to insert in the window. The content distribution hardware inserts the selected advertisement in the window for distribution to the multiple viewers. During distribution of the advertisement in the window, if desired, the content distribution hardware monitors further use of the multiple communication devices to detect if any of the communication devices discontinue receiving the video stream during the window of time.