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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2006
Applicants:
Maxime G. G. Haot, New York, NY (US);
Richard G. Moore, Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
Sreenivas Rachamadugu, Leesburg, VA (US);
Inventors:
Maxime G. G. Haot, New York, NY (US);
Richard G. Moore, Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
Sreenivas Rachamadugu, Leesburg, VA (US);
Assignees:
Verizon Business Network Services Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Verizon UK Limited, Berkshire, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/80 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An approach provides control of digital media. A stream of digital media that includes an advertisement is received. The stream is selectively skipped to avoid the advertisement. In addition, the amount of advertisement played back is tracked. Further, tracking information is generated based on the tracking.