Digital overlay offers on connected media devices

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10869078-B2
Application number	US-201916388097-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 18, 2019
Priority date	Sep 18, 2015
Publication date	Dec 15, 2020
Grant date	Dec 15, 2020

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.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for dynamically delivering available offers to a client media device, the method comprising:
receiving, by a computing system, available offers from at least one offer provider of an offer distribution network;
identifying, by the computing system, one or more of media content currently being streamed to the client media device or a content source for the media content currently being streamed to the client media device;
in response to the identifying, selecting, by the computing system, from the available offers, a targeted offer that is contextually-relevant to the media content currently being streamed media device, wherein selecting the targeted offer comprises:
determining whether the available offers comprise one or more direct offers, and
based on whether the available offers comprise the one or more direct offers, selecting the targeted offer, wherein selecting the targeted offer based on whether the available offers comprise the one or more direct offers comprises:
responsive to determining that the available offers comprise the one or more direct offers, using media content metadata and at least a first type of data to select the targeted offer from the one or more direct offers, wherein the media content metadata is related to the media content currently being streamed to the client media device, and wherein the first type of data comprises one or more of brand and entity information, or
responsive to determining that the available offers do not comprise the one or more direct offers, using a second type of data to select the targeted offer from the available offers, wherein the second type of data is different from the first type of data; and

in response to the selecting, automatically delivering, by the computing system, to one or more of the client media device or a screen device associated with the client media device, the selected targeted offer,
wherein automatically delivering the selected targeted offer to one or more of the client media device or the screen device associated with the client media device comprises one or more of automatically delivering the selected targeted offer to the client media device such that, while the media content is being streamed to and displayed by the client media device, the client media device also displays the selected targeted offer, or automatically delivering the selected targeted offer to the screen device such that, while the media content is being streamed to and displayed by the client media device, the screen device displays the selected targeted offer.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the media content includes one or more of a media program or a broadcast commercial.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the content source includes one or more of a television channel or a uniform resource locator (URL) of a website from which the media content is being streamed.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining whether the available offers comprise the one or more direct offers comprises determining that the available offers comprise the one or more direct offers,
wherein the media content metadata and at least the first type of data to select the targeted offer from the one or more direct offers comprises using the media content metadata, offer metadata for the one or more direct offers, and the second type of data to select the targeted offer from the one or more direct offers, and
wherein the second type of data comprises user metadata indicating a preference for offer content.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining whether the available offers comprise the one or more direct offers comprises determining that the available offers do not comprise the one or more direct offers,
wherein the second type of data comprises user metadata, and
wherein using the second type of data to select the targeted offer from the available offers comprises using, from the user metadata, one or more (i) a purchase history, (ii) a user history of interaction with offers, (iii) geo-location information, or (iv) user profile factors, to select the targeted offer.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein automatically delivering, to one or more of the client media device or the screen device associated with the client media device, the selected targeted offer comprises automatically delivering, to one or more of the client media device or the screen device associated with the client media device, the selected targeted offer for display while the media content is being streamed to and displayed by the client media device.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein automatically delivering, to one or more of the client media device or the screen device associated with the client media device, the selected targeted offer comprises automatically delivering, to one or more of the client media device or the screen device associated with the client media device, the selected targeted offer for display as an overlay or a pop-up advertisement while a broadcast commercial is being streamed to and displayed by the client media device.

8. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon instructions that, upon execution by a processor, cause performance of a set of acts comprising:
receiving available offers from at least one offer provider of an offer distribution network;
identifying one or more of media content currently being streamed to a client media device or a content source for the media content currently being streamed to the client media device;
in response to the identifying, selecting, from the available offers, a targeted offer that is contextually-relevant to the media content currently being streamed to the client media device, wherein selecting the targeted offer comprises:
determining whether the available offers comprise one or more direct offers, and
based on whether the available offers comprise the one or more direct offers, selecting the targeted offer, wherein selecting the targeted offer based on whether the available offers comprise the one or more direct offers comprises:
responsive to determining that the available offers comprise the one or more direct offers, using media content metadata and at least a first type of data to select the targeted offer from the one or more direct offers, wherein the media content metadata is related to the media content currently being streamed to the client media device, and wherein the first type of data comprises one or more of brand and entity information, and
responsive to determining that the available offers do not comprise the one or more direct offers, using a second type of data to select the targeted offer from the available offers, wherein the second type of data is different from the first type of data; and

in response to the selecting, automatically delivering, to one or more of the client media device or a screen device associated with the client media device, the selected targeted offer,
wherein automatically delivering the selected targeted offer to one or more of the client media device or the screen device associated with the client media device comprises one or more of automatically delivering the selected targeted offer to the client media device such that, while the media content is being streamed to and displayed by the client media device, the client media device also displays the selected targeted offer, or automatically delivering the selected targeted offer to the screen device such that, while the media content is being streamed to and displayed by the client media device, the screen device displays the selected targeted offer.

9. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 8 , wherein the media content includes one or more of a media program or a broadcast

Assignees

• Nielsen Co Us Llc

Inventors

• Evans David John
• Greenway Thomas
• Spicer Martin Ian

Classifications

• H04N21/44224

  Monitoring of user activity on external systems, e.g. Internet browsing · CPC title

• H04N21/41265

  having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device (unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204) · CPC title

• H04N21/431

  Generation of visual interfaces {for content selection or interaction}; Content or additional data rendering · CPC title

• H04N21/40

  Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof · CPC title

• H04N21/23

  Processing of content or additional data; Elementary server operations; Server middleware · CPC title