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US 11,310,542 B2Granted
Advertisement supported video download
AssigneeComcast Cable Communications, LLC
InventorMichael A. Chen
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Abstract
System and method for facilitating advertisements within viewed content. The advertisements may be banner advertisements or other advertisement. The advertisements may be included in such a manner that if a user skips or otherwise fast forwards through the advertisements, the user if force to skip through at least a portion of the viewed content.
Claims31
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a computing device, a request for video content, wherein the request comprises advertisement selection data, and wherein the video content comprises a plurality of video frames;
- determining spatial aspects of one or more advertisements for inclusion with the video content based on the advertisement selection data;
- generating, by the computing device and based on the spatial aspects and the plurality of video frames, a second plurality of video frames having modified output proportions;
- and
- sending, to a user device, combined video content comprising the second plurality of video frames and the one or more advertisements.
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A system comprising:
- a computing device;
- and
- a user device;
- wherein the computing device is configured to:
- receive a request for video content, wherein the request comprises advertisement selection data, and wherein the video content comprises a plurality of video frames;
- determine spatial aspects of one or more advertisements for inclusion with the video content based on the advertisement selection data;
- generate, based on the spatial aspects and the plurality of video frames, a second plurality of video frames having modified output proportions;
- and
- send, to the user device, combined video content comprising the second plurality of video frames and the one or more advertisements;
- and
- wherein the user is configured to:
- receive, from the computing device, the combined video content.
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An apparatus comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to:
- receive a request for video content, wherein the request comprises advertisement selection data, and wherein the video content comprises a plurality of video frames;
- determine spatial aspects of one or more advertisements for inclusion with the video content based on the advertisement selection data;
- generate, based on the spatial aspects and the plurality of video frames, a second plurality of video frames having modified output proportions;
- and
- send, to a user device, combined video content comprising the second plurality of video frames and the one or more advertisements.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.