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AssigneeClear Channel Management Services, Inc.
InventorsMark DuVall, Alan Gilbert
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The present invention discloses a method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for processing a content stream at a client computer. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a tagged content stream that was received from a media source is displayed at the client computer by using a first media player. The first media player is embedded in a Web page. When the first media player receives notification that a tag was found, the first media player is muted. Then an untagged content stream that contains data items is displayed by using a second media player. The second media player is embedded in the Web page. In one embodiment of the present invention, when the second media player receives notification that the untagged content has completed, the second media player is muted. The tagged content stream that was received from the media source is then displayed by using the first media player. In a further embodiment of the present invention, the untagged content stream is received by a third instance of the media player. The third instance of the media player stores the untagged content stream in a cache connected to the client computer. When the first media player receives notification that a tag was found, the first media player is muted. Then the untagged content stream that was received from the cache is displayed by using the second instance of the media player. In another embodiment of the present invention, registration information is collected from a user. A spot list is created by using the collected registration information. The untagged content stream contains one or more targeted data items that were selected from the spot list.
A method of processing a content stream at a client computer, comprising:
A method of content stream switching at a client computer, comprising:
A method of content stream switching at a client computer, comprising:
An apparatus of processing a content stream at a client computer, comprising:
An apparatus for content stream switching at a client computer, comprising:
An apparatus for content stream switching at a client computer, comprising:
An article of manufacture comprising a computer program carrier readable by a computer and embodying one or more instructions executable by the computer to perform the method of processing a content data stream at a client computer, the method comprising:
An article of manufacture comprising a computer program carrier readable by a computer and embodying one or more instructions executable by the computer to perform the method of content stream switching at a client computer, comprising:
An article of manufacture comprising a computer program carrier readable by a computer and embodying one or more instructions executable by the computer to perform the method of content stream switching at a client computer, comprising:
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