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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2016
Applicant:
Dish Technologies L.l.c., Englewood, CO (US);
Inventors:
Robert Drew Major, Orem, UT (US);
Christopher Boyd Tirpak, Monument, CO (US);
Steven Michael Casagrande, Castle Rock, CO (US);
Assignee:
DISH Technologies L.L.C., Englewood, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/472 (2011.01); H04L 67/02 (2022.01); H04N 21/233 (2011.01); H04N 21/8352 (2011.01); H04N 21/845 (2011.01); H04N 21/44 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/812 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01); H04N 21/233 (2013.01); H04N 21/44016 (2013.01); H04N 21/47217 (2013.01); H04N 21/8352 (2013.01); H04N 21/8456 (2013.01);
Abstract
Various systems, devices and methods automatically identify advertisements or other portions of television or other media content prior to broadcast using automated content analysis. Information about identified content may be used for any number of different purposes, including advertisement identification; advertisement replacement; second screen browsing or augmentation of identified content; tracking of times or places that ads or other content are viewed; and many others.