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US 2006/0218579 A1Published application
Apparatus and methods for broadcast monitoring
AssigneeGotuit Media Corp.
InventorsJames Logan, Richard Goldhor, Daniel Goessling
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for editing the content of a broadcast programming signal to provide a proprietary program signal that has been tailored to the preferences of an individual monitoring the broadcast programming signal. Accordingly, the systems and methods of the invention offer computer-integrated television monitoring.
Claims18
A system for providing a modified program signal from a broadcast programming signal, comprising:
- means for receiving a broadcast programming signal;
- a random access buffer memory coupled to said receiver for persistently storing a representation of said broadcast programming signal as a stored broadcast programming signal;
- a communication system for receiving marking signals from another communication system, wherein each of the marking signal includes information specifying a location of a corresponding program segment of said broadcast programming signal;
- an input device operable for generating an instruction for selecting a specified one of said marking signals;
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- a processor coupled to the input device and the random access buffer memory for selectively jumping to and delivering a program segment within said stored broadcast programming signal stored in said random access buffer memory that corresponds to said specified one of said marking signals.
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A method for generating a proprietary program signal, comprising the steps of:
- receiving a broadcast programming signal at an editing station;
- generating a marking signal at said editing station representative of information for modifying said broadcast programming signal;
- transmitting said marking signal from said editing station to a first set of user devices;
- generating a viewing log signal at said user devices based on use of the first broadcast programming signal and marking signal at the user devices;
- transmitting said viewing log signal from said user devices to said editing station;
- generating a second marking signal at said editing station representative of information for modifying the broadcast programming signal based on the viewing log signals;
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- transmitting said second marking signal from said editing station to a second set of user devices for modifying said the broadcast programming signal.
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A method of generating a proprietary program signal, comprising the steps of:
- generating a marking signal representative of information for modifying a broadcast programming signal;
- transmitting said marking signal to a remote location;
- generating computer-readable data representative of a menu of program segments, wherein each of said program segments corresponds to a particular marking signal;
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- transmitting said computer-readable data to said remote location;
- whereby a viewer at said remote location may select a marking signal for modifying said broadcast programming signal based on said computer-readable data.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.