Managing advertising content
AssigneeARRIS Enterprises LLC
InventorKrishna Prasad Panje
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Abstract
Methods and systems of managing advertising content are shown and disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes outputting first multimedia content from a first channel, and outputting TAD content from a TAD channel instead of the first multimedia content during a TAD window of the first multimedia content. The method additionally includes receiving a first user input requesting multimedia content of a content channel different from the TAD channel during the TAD window, and outputting the multimedia content of the content channel instead of the TAD content in response to the first user input.
Claims29
A method of managing targeted advertising (TAD) content, comprising:
- outputting first multimedia content from a first channel;
- outputting TAD content from a TAD channel instead of the first multimedia content during a TAD window of the first multimedia content;
- receiving a first user input requesting multimedia content of a content channel different from the TAD channel during the TAD window;
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- outputting the multimedia content of the content channel instead of the TAD content in response to the first user input.
A method of managing targeted advertising (TAD) content, comprising:
- tuning to a first channel having first multimedia content;
- outputting the first multimedia content from the first channel;
- tuning to a TAD channel having TAD content, wherein tuning to the first channel is maintained while tuned to the TAD channel;
- outputting the TAD content instead of the first multimedia content during a TAD window of the first multimedia content;
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- outputting the first multimedia content instead of the TAD content during the TAD window.
A method of managing targeted advertising (TAD) content, comprising:
- tuning to a first channel having first multimedia content;
- tuning to a TAD channel having TAD content;
- recording the first multimedia content and the TAD content;
- outputting the recorded first multimedia content;
- outputting the recorded TAD content instead of the recorded first multimedia content during the TAD window of the recorded first multimedia content;
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- outputting the recorded first multimedia content instead of the recorded TAD content during the TAD window.
A method of managing targeted advertising (TAD) content, comprising:
- tuning to a first channel having first multimedia content;
- outputting the first multimedia content;
- tuning to a TAD channel having TAD content;
- outputting the TAD content instead of the first multimedia content during a TAD window of the first multimedia content;
- receiving user input that requests a second channel having second multimedia content during the TAD window, the second channel being different from the first channel and the TAD channel;
- tuning to the second channel during the TAD window while tuned to the TAD channel in response to the user input;
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- outputting the second multimedia content of the second channel at the end of the TAD window.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.