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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.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2015

Filed:

Dec. 27, 2013
Applicant:

United Video Properties, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Matthew Emans, Boston, MA (US);

John Hoctor, Newton, MA (US);

Jonathan Turner, Nashua, NH (US);

Assignee:

Rovi Technologies Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); H04N 21/262 (2011.01); H04N 21/2543 (2011.01); H04N 21/254 (2011.01); H04N 21/2547 (2011.01); H04N 21/2668 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/0244 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0241 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0249 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0264 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0273 (2013.01); H04N 21/2542 (2013.01); H04N 21/2543 (2013.01); H04N 21/2547 (2013.01); H04N 21/2668 (2013.01); H04N 21/26241 (2013.01); H04N 21/812 (2013.01);
Abstract

System and methods are presented for providing an interface to select advertising slots in an advertising campaign. In some embodiments, a user equipment device generates for display a plurality of cells in a grid arrangement. Each cell is associated with an advertising slot corresponding to a content source and a time period, and each cell includes a representation of an audience of the associated advertising slot. The user equipment device receives a user selection of a first cell of the plurality of cells, a function is executed with respect to a first advertising slot associated with the first cell.


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