Methods and apparatus for monitoring the insertion of local media into a program stream

Number of patents in Portfolio can not be more than 2000

United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 12052446
APP PUB NO 20230037853A1
SERIAL NO

17967642

Stats

ATTORNEY / AGENT: (SPONSORED)

Importance

Loading Importance Indicators... loading....

Abstract

See full text

Methods and apparatus for monitoring locally inserted media are disclosed. A disclosed apparatus includes instructions to detect, at a media device at an end user location, a frequency of a watermark that was spliced into a primary media stream received at the media device after the primary media stream was received at the end user location, associate identifying tags with segments of the primary media stream that were spliced, in response to the detection of the watermark, determine an advertisement associated with the segments of the primary media based on the identifying tags, present the primary media at a first time and the advertisement at second times, record a log including first identifying information including an identity of the content of the primary media and second identifying information including a change in the frequency of the watermark corresponding to the advertisement; and transmit the log to a data collection facility.

Loading the Abstract Image... loading....

First Claim

See full text

Family

Loading Family data... loading....

Patent Owner(s)

Patent OwnerAddress
THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US) LLC85 BROAD STREET NEW YORK NY 10004

International Classification(s)

Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Kemper, Paul C Palm Harbor, US 5 10
Ramaswamy, Arun Tampa, US 262 10305

Cited Art Landscape

Load Citation

Patent Citation Ranking

Forward Cite Landscape

Load Citation

Maintenance Fees

Fee Large entity fee small entity fee micro entity fee due date
3.5 Year Payment $1600.00 $800.00 $400.00 Jan 30, 2028
7.5 Year Payment $3600.00 $1800.00 $900.00 Jan 30, 2032
11.5 Year Payment $7400.00 $3700.00 $1850.00 Jan 30, 2036
Fee Large entity fee small entity fee micro entity fee
Surcharge - 3.5 year - Late payment within 6 months $160.00 $80.00 $40.00
Surcharge - 7.5 year - Late payment within 6 months $160.00 $80.00 $40.00
Surcharge - 11.5 year - Late payment within 6 months $160.00 $80.00 $40.00
Surcharge after expiration - Late payment is unavoidable $700.00 $350.00 $175.00
Surcharge after expiration - Late payment is unintentional $1,640.00 $820.00 $410.00