Patents by Inventor Lawrence Catchpole

Lawrence Catchpole has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Systems and methods for selecting television content inventory and predicting available inventory
    Patent number: 9986275
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for optimizing selection of television advertising inventory. In one embodiment, a method may include receiving a set of available ad inventory from a traffic system server, where the set of available ad inventory is received from a hardware component in communication with the traffic system server. The method may include identifying a futuremost ad in the ad inventory representing an end of the first future time period, receiving a traffic system schedule indicative of planned television programming and historical television programming by the traffic system server, and determining that a correlation between a previous traffic system schedule portion selected from the historical television programming and the planned television programming meets an inventory prediction threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: COX MEDIA GROUP, LLC
    Inventors: Bradley R. Smith, Shereta Williams, Ron Curtis, Lawrence Catchpole
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTING TELEVISION CONTENT INVENTORY
    Publication number: 20170026678
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for optimizing selection of television advertising inventory. In one embodiment, a method may include receiving a set of available ad inventory from a traffic system server, where the set of available ad inventory is received from a hardware component in communication with the traffic system server. The method may include identifying a futuremost ad in the ad inventory representing an end of the first future time period, receiving a traffic system schedule indicative of planned television programming and historical television programming by the traffic system server, and determining that a correlation between a previous traffic system schedule portion selected from the historical television programming and the planned television programming meets an inventory prediction threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Bradley R. Smith, Shereta Williams, Ron Curtis, Lawrence Catchpole