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Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2021

Filed:

Feb. 26, 2020
Applicant:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Washington, DC (US);

Inventors:

Marcelo D. Lechner, Burlington, MA (US);

Glenn Altchek, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);

Aakash Chokshi, New York, NY (US);

Srinivas Anumala, Irving, TX (US);

Assignee:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/234 (2011.01); H04N 21/61 (2011.01); H04N 21/258 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/23424 (2013.01); H04N 21/25883 (2013.01); H04N 21/6112 (2013.01); H04N 21/812 (2013.01);
Abstract

Devices, methods, and storage media provide for identifying, by an ad insertion device, at least one prospect for inserting a selected ad via a set of hidden channels during a target programming timeslot based on ad schedules for a plurality of networks; determining based on hidden channel usage data for a programming timeslot corresponding to the target programming timeslot, that a likelihood of availability of at least one hidden channel of the set of hidden channels during the target programming timeslot exceeds a first threshold level; and sending an instruction to an interface device to insert the selected ad via the at least one hidden channel during the target programming timeslot.


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Lechner, Marcelo. (2021). Channel usage management in terrestrial distribution systems (U.S. Patent No. 11019370). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/11019370

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