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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:
Jul. 26, 2016

Filed:

Jul. 08, 2011
Applicants:

Kishore Tallapaneni, Flower Mound, TX (US);

Brian F. Roberts, Dallas, TX (US);

Anthony M. Lemus, Irving, TX (US);

Japan A. Mehta, Coppell, TX (US);

Donald H. Relyea, Dallas, TX (US);

Michael R. Oliver, Hoboken, NJ (US);

Inventors:

Kishore Tallapaneni, Flower Mound, TX (US);

Brian F. Roberts, Dallas, TX (US);

Anthony M. Lemus, Irving, TX (US);

Japan A. Mehta, Coppell, TX (US);

Donald H. Relyea, Dallas, TX (US);

Michael R. Oliver, Hoboken, NJ (US);

Assignee:

VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/10 (2006.01); H04N 7/025 (2006.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/258 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/4784 (2011.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/812 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0241 (2013.01); H04N 21/25891 (2013.01); H04N 21/44204 (2013.01); H04N 21/4784 (2013.01);
Abstract

An exemplary method includes a non-intrusive advertisement presentation system subscribing a user to an advertisement service associated with a media content program, detecting a presentation of the media content program together with one or more advertisements associated with the media content program, and providing, in accordance with the advertisement service and in a manner independent of the presentation of the media content program together with the one or more advertisements, advertisement content associated with the one or more advertisements for selective access by the user. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.


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