Patents Assigned to Impulse Radio LLC
  • Patent number: 9337791
    Abstract: A method and system is presented for coordinating the transmission of supplemental digital data to accompany broadcast data, and in particular, analog radio broadcasts, among a plurality of broadcasters. The supplemental digital data may provide information about the particular broadcast data being transmitted (i.e. cut data) or may be supplemental to such data (i.e. news, weather and traffic data). The supplemental digital data to be presented is sorted based on particular algorithms which may take into account broadcaster-specified criteria such as target audience, time of day, type of broadcast data presented, and the like. The supplemental digital data may be audio data, visual data, or audio-visual data for presentation with the broadcast data. The supplemental digital data may further be advertisement data. The advertisement data may be sold by the broadcasters or the party coordinating the IBOC transmission of the supplemental digital data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Impulse Radio LLC
    Inventors: David Corts, Bryce Wells, Paul Signorelli, Lee Hunter, Terrance Snyder