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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2024
Charter Communications Operating, Llc, St. Louis, MO (US);
David W. Chen, Aurora, CO (US);
Timothy Whitton, Aurora, CO (US);
David E. Agranoff, Golden, CO (US);
Manuel Martinez, Beaverton, OR (US);
Vipul Patel, Parker, CO (US);
Charter Communications Operating, LLC, St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and devices for supporting advertisement (ad) insertion into a media stream. The device receives notification of an upcoming ad break within the media stream, determines whether the upcoming ad break contains only pre-scheduled spots, and if the upcoming ad break does not contain only pre-scheduled spots, determines whether the upcoming ad break includes any addressable spot based on a broadcasting schedule stored on the device. Otherwise, the device sends a request with information about the at least one addressable spot and the upcoming ad break to an ADS proxy hosted by a client ad server unit within the content delivery network, receives a response message from the ADS proxy identifying a default asset for each addressable spot, retrieves the at least one default asset from a content distribution network, and sends the at least one default asset to a splicer for insertion within the media stream.