IP Library Granted Patent US 10,075,755
Granted Patent B2
US 10,075,755 · App. 15/130,639 · Granted Sep 11, 2018

Digital overlay offers on connected media devices

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Patent No.
US 10,075,755
App. No.
15/130,639
Granted
Sep 11, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

A computing device includes memory for storing commercial metadata and offer metadata harvested from within an offer distribution network. A processor compares the commercial metadata related to a broadcast commercial to be streamed to a client media device with the offer metadata related to available offers from offer providers, to generate a comparison. The processor then selects an offer from the available offers based on the comparison; determines when and over what video stream the broadcast commercial is to be streamed; detects that a screen device is paired to the client media device; and delivers the offer to a display of the screen device during streaming of the broadcast commercial over the video stream to the client media device. When a user of the screen device selects an indicia of the offer, the offer is collected into a virtual wallet from which the offer can be redeemed in various ways.

Claims (80)

1. A computing server device comprising:

a non-transitory memory storing instructions and databases configured to store commercial metadata related to broadcast commercials broadcasted within an offer distribution network and offer metadata related to available offers from offer providers of the offer distribution network, each broadcast commercial comprising commercial metadata comprising at least two of:

an entity associated with the corresponding broadcast commercial;

a product or service associated with the corresponding broadcast commercial; or

a category associated with the corresponding broadcast commercial; and

a processor coupled to the non-transitory memory and configured to execute the instructions, the executed instructions causing the processor to perform operations comprising:

identifying at least one potential offer from the available offers having corresponding offer metadata matching a threshold amount of the commercial metadata of a corresponding broadcast commercial to be streamed to a client media device;

identifying, by automatic content recognition, the commercial metadata from the corresponding broadcast commercial based on a video stream broadcast to the client media device;

automatically delivering the at least one potential offer to a display of the client media device as an overlay or a pop-up advertisement during streaming of the corresponding broadcast commercial over the determined video stream based on the identified commercial metadata; and

delivering the at least one potential offer over a personal area network to a display of a screen device during streaming of the corresponding broadcast commercial over the determined video stream.

2. The computing server device of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:

harvesting the commercial metadata from a plurality of sources, including multiple channels of streaming media; and

indexing the commercial metadata such that the commercial metadata is searchable.

3. The computing server device of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:

harvesting the offer metadata from a plurality of sources, including from any offers available from the offer providers that are deliverable as advertisements in conjunction with the broadcast commercial; and

indexing the offer metadata such that the offer metadata is searchable.

4. The computing server device of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:

detecting that the screen device is paired to the client media device via the personal area network;

detecting selection of the at least one potential offer displayed on the client media device and the screen device by the screen device; and

facilitating transfer of a digital version of the at least one potential offer to a virtual wallet accessible through the screen device.

5. The computing server device of claim 1 , wherein identifying the at least one potential offer comprises comparing subject matter of the offer metadata of the available offers to interests of a user that operates the client media device.

6. The computing server device of claim 1 , wherein identifying the at least one potential offer comprises:

determining that there are no available offers from the offer provider corresponding to a brand owner sponsoring the corresponding broadcast commercial; and

identifying an available offer from an offer provider corresponding to a franchisee or other retailer authorized to sell the product or service associated with the corresponding broadcast commercial.

7. The computing server device of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving user metadata related to a user of the client media device;

identifying more than one offer from the available offers having corresponding offer metadata matching the threshold amount of the commercial metadata of the corresponding broadcast commercial to be streamed to the client media device;

comparing the offer metadata of each offer of the more than one offer to the user metadata; and

delivering a target offer based on the offer metadata and the user metadata as the at least one potential offer.

8. The computing server device of claim 1 , wherein identifying at least one potential offer comprises identifying a direct offer, the direct offer corresponding to a match of at least one of:

an entity of the commercial metadata to an offer entity of the offer metadata; or

a product or service of the commercial metadata to an offer product or service of the offer metadata.

9. The computing server device of claim 1 , wherein identifying at least one potential offer comprises identifying an indirect direct offer, the indirect offer corresponding to a match of a category of the commercial metadata to an offer category of the offer metadata.

10. A computing server device comprising:

a non-transitory memory storing instructions and databases configured to store commercial metadata related to broadcast commercials broadcasted within an offer distribution network and offer metadata related to available offers from offer providers of the offer distribution network, each broadcast commercial comprising commercial metadata comprising at least two of:

an entity associated with the corresponding broadcast commercial;

a product or service associated with the corresponding broadcast commercial; or

a category associated with the corresponding broadcast commercial; and

a processor coupled to the non-transitory memory and configured to execute the instructions, the executed instructions causing the processor to perform operations comprising:

identifying at least one potential offer from the available offers having corresponding offer metadata matching a threshold amount of the commercial metadata of a corresponding broadcast commercial to be streamed to a client media device;

identifying, by automatic content recognition, the commercial metadata from the corresponding broadcast commercial based on a video stream broadcast to the client media device;

detecting that a screen device is paired to the client media device via a personal area network; and

automatically delivering the at least one potential offer over the personal area network to a display of screen device during streaming of the broadcast commercial over the video stream to the client media device based on the identified commercial metadata.

11. The computing sever device of claim 10 , wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving an indication of a user selection of the displayed at least one potential offer through the screen device; and

facilitating transfer of a digital version of the displayed at least one potential offer to a virtual wallet accessible through the screen device.

12. The computing server device of claim 10 , wherein identifying the at least one potential offer comprises comparing subject matter of the offer metadata of the available offers to environmental factors of the client media device, the environmental factors comprising at least one of: weather, location of the client media device, or time of day.

13. The computing server device of claim 10 , further comprising:

receiving user metadata related to a user of the screen device;

identifying more than one offer from the available offers having corresponding offer metadata matching the threshold amount of the commercial metadata of the corresponding broadcast commercial to be streamed to the client media device;

comparing the offer metadata of each offer of the more than one offer to the user metadata; and

delivering, as the at least one potential offer, a target offer based on a determined best match between the offer metadata and the user metadata.

14. The computing server device of claim 10 , wherein identifying the at least one potential offer comprises:

determining that there are no available offers from the offer provider corresponding to a brand owner sponsoring the corresponding broadcast commercial; and

identifying an available offer from an offer provider corresponding to a franchisee or other retailer authorized to sell the product or service associated with the corresponding broadcast commercial.

15. A method comprising:

harvesting, using a processor of an offer computing system, commercial metadata related to broadcast commercials broadcasted within an offer distribution network, each broadcast commercial comprising commercial metadata comprising at least two of:

an entity associated with the corresponding broadcast commercial;

a product or service associated with the corresponding broadcast commercial; or

a category associated with the corresponding broadcast commercial;

storing, using the processor, the harvested commercial metadata in a commercial metadata database of non-transitory memory in communication with the processor;

harvesting, using the processor, offer metadata related to offers generated by provider systems of the offer distribution network and available to deliver with the broadcast commercials;

storing, using the processor, the harvested offer metadata in an offer metadata database of the non-transitory memory;

obtaining, at the processor, interests of a user;

for each broadcast commercial:

identifying, using the processor, potential offers, each having corresponding offer metadata matching a threshold amount of commercial metadata of the corresponding broadcast commercial;

selecting, using the processor, a first offer from the potential offers to deliver with the corresponding broadcast commercial to a client media device associated with the user based on the interests of the user;

detecting, using the processor, that a screen device is paired to the client media device by a personal area network;

identifying, by automatic content recognition, the commercial metadata from the corresponding broadcast commercial based on a video stream broadcast to the client media device;

delivering, using the processor, the first offer over the personal area network for display on the screen device during streaming of the broadcast commercial;

detecting, using the processor, selection of the first offer through the screen device; and facilitating, using the processor, transfer of a digital version of the first offer to a virtual wallet accessible through the screen device.

16. The method of claim 15 , further comprising determining, using the processor, that none of the potential offers is a direct offer from the offer provider system corresponding to a brand owner of the product or service associated with the corresponding broadcast commercial, wherein the potential offers are possible indirect offers from another offer provider system corresponding to a vendor or retailer of the product or service associated with the corresponding broadcast commercial.

17. The method of claim 15 , further comprising selecting, using the processor, a second offer to deliver with the corresponding broadcast commercial to the client media device in lieu of the first offer, in response to determining that the first offer has already been collected through the client media device.

18. The method of claim 15 , further comprising determining, using the processor, the interests of the user by at least one of:

accessing past purchases of the user;

accessing past interactions of the user with the first offer or with similar offers;

accessing a wish list of the user for items of interest;

accessing profile information including gender, family type, and residence location; or

determining a location of the client media device through a geo-locating feature of the client media device.

19. The method of claim 15 , further comprising delivering the first offer as an overlay, inset or pop-up advertisement to the corresponding broadcast commercial being streamed to the client media device.

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SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Sep 18, 2024
From: ROKU, INC.
To: CITIBANK, N.A.
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RELEASE (REEL 053473 / FRAME 0001) Recorded May 11, 2023
From: CITIBANK, N.A.
To: A. C. NIELSEN COMPANY, LLC; EXELATE, INC.; GRACENOTE, INC.; GRACENOTE MEDIA SERVICES, LLC; THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC; NETRATINGS, LLC
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From: CITIBANK, N.A.
To: A. C. NIELSEN COMPANY, LLC; EXELATE, INC.; GRACENOTE, INC.; GRACENOTE MEDIA SERVICES, LLC; THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC; NETRATINGS, LLC
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From: MORGAN STANLEY SENIOR FUNDING, INC.
To: ROKU, INC.; ROKU DX HOLDINGS, INC.
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PATENT SECURITY AGREEMENT SUPPLEMENT Recorded Jun 29, 2021
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ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 30, 2021
From: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC
To: ROKU, INC.
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PARTIAL RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Apr 20, 2021
From: CITIBANK, N.A.
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From: A.C. NIELSEN (ARGENTINA) S.A.; A.C. NIELSEN COMPANY, LLC; ACN HOLDINGS INC.; ACNIELSEN CORPORATION; ACNIELSEN ERATINGS.COM; AFFINNOVA, INC.; ART HOLDING, L.L.C.; ATHENIAN LEASING CORPORATION; CZT/ACN TRADEMARKS, L.L.C.; EXELATE, INC.; GRACENOTE, INC.; GRACENOTE DIGITAL VENTURES, LLC; GRACENOTE MEDIA SERVICES, LLC; NETRATINGS, LLC; NIELSEN AUDIO, INC.; NIELSEN CONSUMER INSIGHTS, INC.; NIELSEN CONSUMER NEUROSCIENCE, INC.; NIELSEN FINANCE CO.; NIELSEN FINANCE LLC; NIELSEN INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS, INC.; NIELSEN MOBILE, LLC; NMR INVESTING I, INC.; TCG DIVESTITURE INC.; TNC (US) HOLDINGS, INC.; THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC; VIZU CORPORATION; VNU MARKETING INFORMATION, INC.; NMR LICENSING ASSOCIATES, L.P.; NIELSEN HOLDING AND FINANCE B.V.; THE NIELSEN COMPANY B.V.; VNU INTERNATIONAL B.V.
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SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Jun 9, 2020
From: A. C. NIELSEN COMPANY, LLC; ACN HOLDINGS INC.; ACNIELSEN CORPORATION; ACNIELSEN ERATINGS.COM; AFFINNOVA, INC.; ART HOLDING, L.L.C.; ATHENIAN LEASING CORPORATION; CZT/ACN TRADEMARKS, L.L.C.; EXELATE, INC.; GRACENOTE, INC.; GRACENOTE DIGITAL VENTURES, LLC; GRACENOTE MEDIA SERVICES, LLC; NETRATINGS, LLC; NIELSEN AUDIO, INC.; NIELSEN CONSUMER INSIGHTS, INC.; NIELSEN CONSUMER NEUROSCIENCE, INC.; NIELSEN FINANCE CO.; NIELSEN FINANCE LLC; NIELSEN INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS, INC.; NIELSEN MOBILE, LLC; NIELSEN UK FINANCE I, LLC; NMR INVESTING I, INC.; TCG DIVESTITURE INC.; TNC (US) HOLDINGS, INC.; THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC; VIZU CORPORATION; VNU MARKETING INFORMATION, INC.; NMR LICENSING ASSOCIATES, L.P.; NIELSEN HOLDING AND FINANCE B.V.; THE NIELSEN COMPANY B.V.; VNU INTERNATIONAL B.V.
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