Non-intrusive advertisement presentation
AssigneeTiVo Inc.
InventorAllen Billings
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Abstract
Advertisements are often presented in the context of a media content viewing experience. Advertisement presentation may be intrusive or subtle. In many instances, users may be interested in particular advertisements but may not want to disrupt a media content viewing experience by launching an advertisement window, opening an advertisement application, or otherwise being redirected to another piece of content. Consequently, mechanisms are provided to allow a user to identify advertisements or save advertisement interests for presentation at a later time. Saved advertisement interests can be used to inform future advertisement and/or content suggestions, and the user can be presented with selected advertisements within an application or through external mechanisms.
Claims21
1-20. (canceled)
A method comprising:
- playing a video program on a media device, wherein a plurality of secondary videos are inserted into the playing of the video program;
- during the playing of the video program, receiving user interface interactions that identify a subset of secondary videos;
- after an ending of the playing of the video program:
- generating for display on the media device, a) a list of the identified subset of the secondary videos, and b) a sharing user interface element for sharing at least a portion of the subset of the secondary videos, wherein an interaction with the sharing user interface element causes a message to be sent to a second media device, the message identifying at least a portion of the subset of the secondary videos.
The method of claim 27, further comprising, identifying the secondary videos as interesting to the users of the social network.
A system comprising:
- circuitry configured to:
- play a video program on a media device, wherein a plurality of secondary videos are inserted into the playing of the video program;
- during the playing of the video program, receive user interface interactions that identify a subset of secondary videos;
- after an ending of the playing of the video program:
- generate for display on the media device, a) a list of the identified subset of the secondary videos, and b) a sharing user interface element for sharing at least a portion of the subset of the secondary videos, wherein an interaction with the sharing user interface element causes a message to be sent to a second media device, the message identifying at least a portion of the subset of the secondary videos.
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing one or more instructions to be executed by a system including a processor and memory, the instructions comprising:
- playing a video program on a media device, wherein a plurality of secondary videos are inserted into the playing of the video program;
- during the playing of the video program, receiving user interface interactions that identify a subset of secondary videos;
- after an ending of the playing of the video program:
- generating for display on the media device, a) a list of the identified subset of the secondary videos, and b) a sharing user interface element for sharing at least a portion of the subset of the secondary videos, wherein an interaction with the sharing user interface element causes a message to be sent to a second media device, the message identifying at least a portion of the subset of the secondary videos.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.