Abstract: A targeted television advertisement system comprises a customer premises equipment at a household and coupled to a television set, the customer premise equipment, which comprises a server operable to access a media storage device and demand-pull advertising elementary streams customized for a viewer of the household, and a splicer operable to receive a program elementary streams and splice the demand-pulled advertising elementary streams into the program elementary streams.
Abstract: An online targeted advertising system comprises a first interface operable to enable a TV program distributor to access an online targeted advertising exchange and identify ad avails as commodities, a second interface operable to enable a TV-viewing household to access the online targeted advertising exchange and carry out transactions related to the identified ad avails, and a third interface operable to enable an advertiser to access the online targeted advertising exchange and carry out transactions related to the identified ad avails.