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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Sue Ann Chen, Carlton, AU;
Arun Vishwanath, Blackburn, AU;
Saket Sathe, Victoria, AU;
Stefan Harrer, Victoria, AU;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
These teachings concern smart insertion of advertisements in a video, and specifically include selecting locations in a video to place such advertisements. For a specific video there is determined an integer number k of locations for advertisements when streaming the specific video to a specific user that requests the specific video. A set of advertisements is selected to deliver with the specific video, and user feedback is utilized to determine an integer number k of discrete locations within the specific video at which to place advertisements of the set. The specific video is electronically or optically delivered to the specific user, with the set of advertisements dispersed among the k discrete locations for rendering on a local display device.