System and method for preferred placement programming of iTV content
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IPC분류정보
국가/구분
United States(US) Patent
등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)
H04N-007/10
H04N-005/445
H04N-021/262
H04N-021/258
H04N-021/8543
H04N-021/84
H04N-021/81
H04N-021/472
H04N-021/2668
H04N-021/488
H04N-005/45
H04N-021/482
H04N-021/431
H04N-021/4725
출원번호
US-0484425
(2012-05-31)
등록번호
US-8943533
(2015-01-27)
발명자
/ 주소
de Andrade, David
Carney, John
Moreau, Samuel
Singer, Tyson
Ganapavarapu, Srikanth
출원인 / 주소
TVWorks, LLC
대리인 / 주소
Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
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초록▼
Preferred placement of programming content is provided by a system and method to organize or sequence the display of a set of programmable content elements of an iTV application to a viewer, using business rules that describe the preferred placement conditions or criteria. Such criteria include bran
Preferred placement of programming content is provided by a system and method to organize or sequence the display of a set of programmable content elements of an iTV application to a viewer, using business rules that describe the preferred placement conditions or criteria. Such criteria include brand, content owner, application location, current channel, current channel family, current channel category, time of day, content category, current program, current program genre, current iTV application, current content type, and/or subscriber and set-top box profile and behavior data. In one implementation, the present invention allows for managing the ‘shelf space’ within and for iTV applications.
대표청구항▼
1. A method comprising: accessing, by a computing device, content placement rules that (a) describe conditions for placement of content elements within a user interface of an interactive television (iTV) application at defined locations along multiple dimensions and (b) prioritize placement of one o
1. A method comprising: accessing, by a computing device, content placement rules that (a) describe conditions for placement of content elements within a user interface of an interactive television (iTV) application at defined locations along multiple dimensions and (b) prioritize placement of one of the content elements at one of the defined locations relative to the placement of other content elements at other ones of the defined locations;placing, at one or more of the defined locations, one or more of the content elements based on an identification of a reference to a definition of a programming campaign that includes a key for uniquely identifying the programming campaign, a listing of candidate content elements, and at least one rule for selecting the one or more of the content elements from the candidate content elements; andstoring to a computer readable memory the user interface, which includes the one or more of the content elements placed at the one or more of the defined locations. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the content placement rules comprise rules adapted to control placement of tiles within tiled user interfaces, rules adapted to permit groupings of the tiles within the tiled user interfaces, and rules adapted to permit transitions between the grouping of the tiles within the tiled user interfaces. 3. The method of claim 1, wherein placing the one or more of the content elements is conditioned by parameters within the content placement rules that include one or more of: current application, application type, location, time-of-day, day part, current channel, current network family, current channel category, current program, current program genre, current program attributes, current content type, or application data. 4. The method of claim 1, wherein placing the one or more of the content elements is conditioned on subscriber profile attributes including one or more of: demographics, service tier, geography, or subscriber behavior. 5. The method of claim 1, wherein the content placement rules prioritize the placement of each of the content elements according to pay-for-placement criteria. 6. The method of claim 1, wherein the content placement rules prioritize the placement of each of the content elements according to one or more of: brand, content owner, application location, current channel, current channel family, current channel category, time of day, content category, current program, current program genre, current iTV application, current content type, subscriber profile, set-top box profile, or subscriber behavior data. 7. The method of claim 1, wherein the defined locations include tiles reserved for advertisements. 8. The method of claim 1, wherein the conditions for placement of the content elements within the user interface includes time shifting so as to present different elements within the defined locations based on a time of day. 9. An apparatus, comprising: one or more processors; andone or more computer readable storage media storing instructions configured to, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to:access content placement rules that (a) describe conditions for placement of content elements within a user interface of an interactive television (iTV) application at defined locations along multiple dimensions and (b) prioritize placement of one of the content elements at one of the defined locations relative to the placement of other content elements at other ones of the defined locations,place, at one or more of the defined locations, one or more of the content elements based on an identification of a reference to a definition of a programming campaign that includes a key for uniquely identifying the programming campaign, a listing of candidate content elements, and at least one rule for selecting the one or more of the content elements from the candidate content elements, andstore to a computer readable memory the user interface, which includes the one or more of the content elements placed at the one or more of the defined locations. 10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the content placement rules comprise rules adapted to control placement of tiles within tiled user interfaces, rules adapted to permit groupings of the tiles within the tiled user interfaces, and rules adapted to permit transitions between the grouping of the tiles within the tiled user interfaces. 11. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein placing the one or more of the content elements is conditioned by parameters within the content placement rules that include one or more of: current application, application type, location, time-of-day, day part, current channel, current network family, current channel category, current program, current program genre, current program attributes, current content type, or application data. 12. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein placing the one or more of the content elements is conditioned on subscriber profile attributes including one or more of: demographics, service tier, geography, or subscriber behavior. 13. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the content placement rules prioritize the placement of each of the content elements according to pay-for-placement criteria. 14. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the content placement rules prioritize the placement of each of the content elements according to one or more of: brand, content owner, application location, current channel, current channel family, current channel category, time of day, content category, current program, current program genre, current iTV application, current content type, subscriber profile, set-top box profile, or subscriber behavior data. 15. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the defined locations include tiles reserved for advertisements. 16. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the conditions for placement of the content elements within the user interface includes time shifting so as to present different elements within the defined locations based on a time of day. 17. One or more non-transitory computer readable storage media storing instructions configured to, when executed, cause an apparatus to: access content placement rules that (a) describe conditions for placement of content elements within a user interface of an interactive television (iTV) application at defined locations along multiple dimensions and (b) prioritize placement of one of the content elements at one of the defined locations relative to the placement of other content elements at other ones of the defined locations,place, at one or more of the defined locations, one or more of the content elements based on an identification of a reference to a definition of a programming campaign that includes a key for uniquely identifying the programming campaign, a listing of candidate content elements, and at least one rule for selecting the one or more of the content elements from the candidate content elements; andstore to a computer readable memory the user interface, which includes the one or more of the content elements placed at the one or more of the defined locations. 18. The one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media of claim 17, wherein the content placement rules comprise rules adapted to control placement of tiles within tiled user interfaces, rules adapted to permit groupings of the tiles within the tiled user interfaces, and rules adapted to permit transitions between the grouping of the tiles within the tiled user interfaces. 19. The one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media of claim 17, wherein the content placement rules prioritize the placement of each of the content elements according to pay-for-placement criteria. 20. The one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media of claim 17, wherein the defined locations include tiles reserved for advertisements. 21. A method, comprising: accessing, by a computing device, content placement rules that (a) describe conditions for placement of content elements within a user interface of an interactive television (iTV) application at defined locations along multiple dimensions and (b) prioritize placement of one of the content elements at one of the defined locations relative to the placement of other content elements at other ones of the defined locations;placing, at one or more of the defined locations, one or more of the content elements based on an identification of a reference to a definition of a programming campaign that includes a key for uniquely identifying the programming campaign, a listing of candidate content elements, and at least one rule for selecting the one or more of the content elements from the candidate content elements; andoutputting the user interface, which includes the one or more of the content elements placed at the one or more of the defined locations.
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