Granted Patent B1

US 9,865,005 · App. 14/212,363 · Granted Jan 9, 2018

Inventor: Thomas F. Pottjegort (Ashburn, VA)

Assignee: comScore, Inc.

G06Q30/0246

Abstract

Claims (69)

1. A method, implemented using a client computing device for measuring visibility of video of a web page downloaded from a web server via a communication network and displayed by a video player in a web browser application executing on the client computing device, wherein the method causes the client computing device to perform operations comprising:

receiving, by the client computing device, the video from the web server via the communication network;

enabling a measurement component in the web page, the measurement component comprising program code that renders one or more images proximal to a display position of the video player in the web page and performs visibility measurements based on one or more images rendered proximal to a display position of the video player in the web page;

playing the video using the video player;

detecting, by the client computing device, a first tracking event of one or more tracking events during playing of the video by the video player;

determining, by the client computing device, a visibility measurement associated with the first tracking event using the measurement component, the visibility measurement indicating whether at least a portion of the video is visible on a display of the computing device based on the one or more images rendered proximal to the display position of the video player;

generating, by the client computing device, visibility information that represents whether at least a portion of the video is visible on the display according to the determining; and

transmitting, by the client computing device, via the communication network, the visibility information to a remote server.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise obtaining the measurement component via the communication network.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the operations further comprise downloading measurement code from a remote computer.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprises:

modifying a document object module (DOM) representing the webpage to include the measurement component.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein:

the one or more tracking events comprises an occurrence related to playing of the video by the video player; and

determining a visibility measurement comprises measuring, in response to the occurrence related to playing of the video, the visibility of at least a portion of the video player that is playing the video on the computing device.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the tracking event indicates one of the following:

playback of this video is started,

playback of this video is at a specific point in time from a beginning of the video,

playback of this video is ended,

playback of this video is paused, and

playback of this video is stopped.

7. A system for measuring visibility of video of a web page downloaded from a web server via a communication network and displayed by a video player in a web browser application on a client computing device, the system comprising:

a memory containing instructions; and

a processor, operably connected to the memory, that executes the instructions that control the client computing device to perform operations comprising:

receiving, by the client computing device, the video from the web server via the communication network;

enabling a measurement component in the web page, the measurement component comprising program code that renders one or more images proximal to a display position of the video player in the web page and performs visibility measurements based on one or more images rendered proximal to a display position of the video player in the web page;

playing the video using the video player;

detecting a first tracking event of one or more tracking events during playing of the video by the video player;

determining a visibility measurement associated with the first tracking event using the measurement component, the visibility measurement indicating whether at least a portion of the video is visible on a display of the computing device based on the one or more images rendered proximal to the display position of the video player;

generating visibility information that represents whether at least a portion of the video is visible on the display according to the determining; and

transmitting, by the client computing device, via the communication network, the visibility information to a remote server.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the operations further comprise obtaining the measurement component via the communication network.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the operations further comprise downloading measurement code from a remote computer.

10. The system of claim 7 , further comprise:

modifying a document object module (DOM) representing the webpage to include the measurement component.

11. The system of claim 7 , wherein:

the one or more tracking events comprises an occurrence related to playing of the video by the video player; and

determining a visibility measurement comprises measuring, in response to the occurrence related to playing of the video, the visibility of at least a portion of a video player that is playing the video on the computing device.

12. The system of claim 7 , wherein the tracking event indicates one of the following:

playback of this video is started,

playback of this video is at a specific point in time from a beginning of the video,

playback of this video is ended,

playback of this video is paused, and

playback of this video is stopped.

13. A method, implemented using a client computing device, for measuring the visibility of a video ad of a web page downloaded from a web server via a communication network and displayed by a video player in a web browser application executing on the client computing device, wherein the method causes the client computing device to perform operations comprising:

receiving, by the client computing device, the video ad from the web server via the communication network;

rendering, by the client computing device, the web page that includes the video player;

receiving, by the client computing device, a file describing the video ad via the communication network;

determining, by the client computing device, that the file contains a measurement indicator;

executing, by the client computing device, an initialization component associated with the video player based on the determining;

receiving, by the client computing device, a measurement component via the communication network, the measurement component comprising program code that measures the visibility of the video player in the web page;

incorporating the measurement component within the web page that includes the video player;

playing the video ad using the video player;

determining, by the client computing device, that a tracking event occurred when playing the video ad;

communicating, by the client computing device, the tracking event that occurred from the initialization component to the measurement component;

determining, by the measurement component, whether at least a portion of the video ad is visible on a display;

generating, by the client computing device, visibility information that represents whether at least a portion of the video ad was visible on the display;

transmitting, by the client computing device, via the communication network, the visibility information to a remote server; and

presenting the visibility information.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein:

the file comprises metadata defining the tracking event;

the tracking event comprises an occurrence related to playing of the video by the video player; and

determining whether at least a portion of the video ad is visible on the display comprises measuring, in response to the occurrence related to playing of the video, the visibility of at least a portion of the video player that is playing the video ad.

15. The method of claim 13 , wherein the tracking event indicates one of the following:

playback of this video ad is started,

playback of this video ad is at a specific point in time from a beginning of the video,

playback of this video ad is ended,

playback of this video ad is paused, and

playback of this video ad is stopped.

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