Patents Assigned to Visible World, LLC
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Patent number: 10979763Abstract: Systems, methods and computer-readable storage media for storing or caching targeted content on a receiver device using existing bandwidth within a media network are described. For example, unused bandwidth within a transport stream may be detected and targeted content may be inserted into the transport stream within the unused bandwidth. The targeted content may include targeted advertisements for a household addressable media network. The transport stream may be transmitted to the receiver device which may access and store the targeted content responsive to various targeted content signals. For instance, the transport stream may include targeted content signals configured to trigger the receive device to access and store the targeted content. The transport stream may include a commercial feed transport stream.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2019Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Visible World, LLCInventors: Seth Haberman, Gerrit Niemeijer
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Patent number: 10972805Abstract: Systems and procedures which allow for the placement of advertisements in an optimized manner are presented. Systems may be provided which may be configured to optimize a media plan (either automatically or manually, or a combinations of both) using demographic vectors, and may display the optimization results in a quantifiable manner using terms and numbers.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2010Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: VISIBLE WORLD, LLCInventors: Gerrit Niemeijer, Seth Haberman
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Patent number: 10949875Abstract: Systems, methods and computer-readable storage media for determining an outcome of a content promotional message are described. For example, a media network may be configured to transmit content to a plurality of content playback devices, such as a television or a computing device. The content may include a content promotion message configured to promote content, such as a television program or a website, available through the media network. The content promotion message and the content may be associated with network identifiers generated by the media network for tracked content. When the content is played by the content playback device, a device identifier may be generated for the content. The device identifiers may be compared with the network identifiers to determine which, if any, content tracked by the media network has been played by the plurality of content playback devices.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: Visible World, LLCInventors: Gerrit Niemeijer, Claudio Marcus
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Patent number: 10911836Abstract: Alternative approaches to the insertion of local commercials and messages into networks feeds are provided. Embodiments include digital commercial insertion for cable operators and others that not only offer more flexibility and features, but may also be significantly cheaper to implement. The actual “insert” of the local commercial or message into the digital program is performed by a standard set top box, with several methods of providing the local commercial to the set top box at the proper insertion time. Another embodiment allows a cable operator to significantly save on equipment in the form of splicers and ad inserters, by allowing easy and dynamic mapping of local commercials to insertion zones.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2015Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Visible World, LLCInventor: Gerrit Niemeijer
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Patent number: 10887665Abstract: Systems, methods and computer-readable media for a decentralized application system that enables participating parties to automate the buying and selling of TV media units and/or aggregated TV and premium video audiences is described. The value-based TV/premium video media exchange application system allows the participants to interact with the system directly and/or automate transactions and execution between systems, while ensuring proper governance over each participants own rules and economics associated with the transactions, as well as individual campaign constraints and requirements. The decentralized application system significantly lowers current transaction and execution barriers, timing and costs, while providing a highly accountable and trusted system across all of the exchange participants.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2017Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Visible World, LLCInventors: Seth Haberman, Gerrit Niemeijer, Robert Bress, Claudio Marcus
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Patent number: 10873776Abstract: Systems and methods for frequency capping of content are described herein. For example, frequency cap information may be configured to indicate a content exposure limit for a content presentation. The number of exposures to the content presentation at a particular household may be monitored. If the number of exposures is equal to or greater than the content exposure limit, the content may be prevented from being presented to the household. The frequency cap information may be used alone or in combination with other information, such as household demographic, timeframe, and day-part information.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2013Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: Visible World, LLCInventors: Seth Haberman, Claudio Marcus, Robert Bress
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Patent number: 10764622Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, systems and methods that allow a television broadcast facility or a headend to insert in-band messages, where the inserted message allow receivers to switch to, insert, or otherwise show addressable advertisements to its viewers.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Visible World, LLCInventors: Seth Haberman, Gerrit Niemeijer, Alex Jansen, Erik van de Pol
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Patent number: 10735788Abstract: The invention relates to a method for packaging media and data for transmission over a broadband communications network link for display at a terminal destination. Features of the method included creating desired media segments for transmission to the terminal destination and for creating targeting information, for example in whole or in part in the form of metadata, for transmission to the terminal destination. Other features include packaging the created media segments and the created targeting information in a single package and unpacking the single package for display of the targeted media at the terminal destination.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2017Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Visible World, LLCInventors: Erik Van De Pol, See Wing Mak, Alex Jansen, Gerrit Niemeijer, Seth Haberman
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Patent number: 10694232Abstract: Systems and methods for push-based dynamic bandwidth allocation deliver addressable, advertising content in a digital network. Bandwidth is allocated on a push basis in response to receiving a trigger from a content distribution stream. The trigger contains data indicating an addressable break. A portion of bandwidth is then allocated to an addressable content stream based on the data of the trigger. The addressable content stream is then streamed to a receiver during the addressable break and the receiver is tuned from the broadcast stream to the addressable content stream for the duration of the addressable break. The additional bandwidth is de-allocated at the end of the addressable break.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2019Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Visible World, LLCInventors: Seth Haberman, Gerrit Niemeijer, Alex Jansen, Erik van de Pol, Andrew Fife
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Patent number: 10681397Abstract: A method of preparing data streams to facilitate seamless switching between such streams by a switching device to produce an output data stream without any switching artifacts. Bi-directional switching between any plurality of data streams is supported. The data streams are divided into segments, wherein the segments include synchronized starting points and end points. The data rate is increased before an end point of a segment, to create switch gaps between the segments. Increasing the data rate can include increasing a bandwidth of the plurality of data streams, for example by multiplexing, or compressing the data. The present invention can be used, for example, with MPEG or AC-3 encoded audio and MPEG encoded video segments that are multiplexed into MPEG-2 transport streams. Also included are specific methods for preparing MPEG video streams and multiplexing MPEG video with MPEG or AC-3 audio streams to allow a receiver to create seamless transitions between individually encoded segments.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2019Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: Visible World, LLCInventors: Seth Haberman, Alex Jansen, Gerrit Niemeijer, Richard L. Booth
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Patent number: 10666949Abstract: A system and method for stitching separately encoded MPEG video fragments, each representing a different rectangular area of the screen together into one single full-screen MPEG encoded video fragment.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2017Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: VISIBLE WORLD, LLCInventors: Seth Haberman, Gerrit Niemeijer, Richard L. Booth, Alex Jansen
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Patent number: 10667021Abstract: Systems and methods for the optimized allocation of content within a universe of inventory are described. For example, a method may include receiving content comprising at least one characteristic and at least one goal. A universe of inventory may be accessed that comprises a plurality of targets which may be assigned into a plurality of segments based on at least one demographic vector. An allocation optimization model may be generated based on the at least one content characteristic, the at least one goal and the plurality of segments. The content may be presented to the targets based on the allocation optimization model. Viewing data may be received that comprises data associated with target consumption of the content and the allocation optimization module may be re-optimized based on the viewing data. Additional factors, such as resource constraints and/or filtering rules, may be used when re-optimizing the allocation optimization module.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2019Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Visible World, LLCInventors: Seth Haberman, Robert Bress, Claudio Marcus
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Patent number: 10645334Abstract: Systems which allow for the insertion of targeted advertisements or other messages into programming content, e.g., using Digital Video Recording (DVR) technology are disclosed. Systems use storage to pre-load advertisements, record content with commercials breaks, and merge the advertisements into the recorded content in the background, so that they are available when the content is viewed in time-shifted mode.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2019Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Visible World, LLCInventors: Gerrit Niemeijer, Andrew Fife, Seth Haberman
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Patent number: 10629241Abstract: Methods and systems for compressing video content are presented. The methods and systems include analyzing a sequence of media frames stored in the memory device and calculating a displacement level of each of the media frames. The displacement level indicates how different each of the media frames is to a previous media frame. The sequence of media frames is divided into a plurality of cuts where each cut ends at a media frame having a substantially high displacement level. Frames to be removed from the sequence of media frames are identified in each cut based upon the frame's displacement level. The identified frames are then removed.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2015Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Visible World, LLCInventors: Bala Iyer, Alex Jansen, Gerrit Niemeijer, Seth Haberman
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Patent number: 10600449Abstract: Systems and procedures for transforming video into a condensed visual representation. An example procedure may include receiving video comprised of a plurality of frames. For each frame, the example procedure may create a first representation, reduced in one dimension, wherein a visual property of each pixel of the first representation is assigned by aggregating a visual property of the pixels of the frame having the same position in the unreduced dimension. The example procedure may further form a condensed visual representation including the first representations aligned along the reduced dimension according to an order of the frames in the video.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: VISIBLE WORLD, LLCInventor: Erik Van de Pol
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Patent number: 10542313Abstract: A system and method for masking/reducing the switch time from an analog or digital television channel to another digital television channel and back. Various optimizations which may be used individually or in combination to minimize the potential disruption to the viewer. This optimization is especially important when the channel switch is made automatically by the receiver, such as the case where the presentation of one television program is temporarily continued on another channel.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2014Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: Visible World, LLCInventors: Seth Haberman, Gerrit Niemeijer, Richard L. Booth, Alex Jansen, Michael-Dennis Biemans
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Patent number: 10521816Abstract: Systems, methods and computer-readable storage media for determining an outcome of a content promotional message are described. For example, a media network may be configured to transmit content to a plurality of content playback devices, such as a television or a computing device. The content may include a content promotion message configured to promote content, such as a television program or a website, available through the media network. The content promotion message and the content may be associated with network identifiers generated by the media network for tracked content. When the content is played by the content playback device, a device identifier may be generated for the content. The device identifiers may be compared with the network identifiers to determine which, if any, content tracked by the media network has been played by the plurality of content playback devices.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2013Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: VISIBLE WORLD, LLCInventors: Gerrit Niemeijer, Claudio Marcus
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Patent number: 10462532Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, a media generation application that allows a user to create and customize a commercial based on microtrend information and/or feedback information is provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2016Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Visible World, LLCInventor: Seth Haberman
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Patent number: 10448078Abstract: Systems and methods for presenting targeted digital on-screen graphics are described. A content originator, such as an advertiser or media network operator, may specify targeted segments and/or targeted digital on-screen graphics to be presented to one or more viewers of an available audience. The expected presentation of a digital on-screen graphic on a content presentation device associated with targeted segments may be detected. A target digital on-screen graphic may be transmitted or otherwise made available to the content presentation device. The targeted digital on-screen graphic may be displayed instead of or overlaying at least a portion of the original digital on-screen graphic, such that all or a portion of the original digital on-screen graphic is substituted by the target digital on-screen graphic.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2015Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Visible World, LLCInventors: Claudio Marcus, Seth Haberman
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Patent number: 10448095Abstract: Systems, methods and computer-readable storage media for storing or caching targeted content on a receiver device using existing bandwidth within a media network are described. For example, unused bandwidth within a transport stream may be detected and targeted content may be inserted into the transport stream within the unused bandwidth. The targeted content may include targeted advertisements for a household addressable media network. The transport stream may be transmitted to the receiver device which may access and store the targeted content responsive to various targeted content signals. For instance, the transport stream may include targeted content signals configured to trigger the receive device to access and store the targeted content. The transport stream may include a commercial feed transport stream.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2017Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Visible World, LLCInventors: Seth Haberman, Gerrit Niemeijer