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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2012
Nobukazu Sugiyama, San Diego, CA (US);
Marvin Paul Demerchant, San Diego, CA (US);
Aran London Sadja, San Diego, CA (US);
Nobukazu Sugiyama, San Diego, CA (US);
Marvin Paul DeMerchant, San Diego, CA (US);
Aran London Sadja, San Diego, CA (US);
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An advertising method involves displaying a plurality of social network thumbnails as an array of thumbnails on a television display, where said plurality of social network thumbnails represent social network videos that are posted or linked to a social network post; representing an advertisement as a thumbnail representation; displaying the advertisement thumbnail representation within the array of thumbnails on the television display; and receiving an instruction selecting of one of the thumbnails to navigate to and responsive thereto displaying either one of the social network videos or the advertisement. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.