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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2021
Iheartmedia Management Services, Inc., San Antonio, TX (US);
Jeffrey Lee Littlejohn, Mason, OH (US);
Jeffrey James Bengel, Springboro, OH (US);
David C. Jellison, Jr., Ogallala, NE (US);
Daniel N. MacTiernan, Ocean City, NJ (US);
IHEARTMEDIA MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INC., San Antonio, TX (US);
Abstract
A transfer time, at which control of automatically inserting advertisements into a broadcast is to be passed from a first advertisement management system to a second advertisement management system, is scheduled to occur within a spot break. During a first portion of the spot break controlled by the first advertisement management system, a determination is made that playout of a final advertisement scheduled for broadcast during the first portion of the spot break cannot be completed prior to the transfer time. A run-last-spot parameter indicating whether the first advertisement management system is permitted to pass control of automatically inserting advertisements into the broadcast prior to the transfer time is obtained. Control of automatically inserting advertisements into the broadcast is conditionally passed from the first advertisement management system to the second advertisement management system based on the run-last-spot parameter.