Customized commercial metrics and presentation via integrated virtual environment devices

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12549809-B2
Application number	US-202117643901-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 13, 2021
Priority date	Mar 15, 2013
Publication date	Feb 10, 2026
Grant date	Feb 10, 2026

Abstract

A method of providing customized commercial content to a user includes providing first commercial content to a user, determining, using an integrated virtual environment device, whether the user substantially viewed the first commercial content, and providing second commercial content to the user based on the first commercial content and whether the user substantially viewed the first commercial content.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An integrated virtual environment device comprising:
a wearable wireless structure; a processor integrated into the wearable wireless structure; a first camera coupled to the processor that provides a rear-facing camera view to the processor; a second camera coupled to the processor that provides a front-facing camera view to the processor;
wherein the first camera, the second camera and the processor are configured to determine that a user is actively viewing advertising content having one or more visual cues in response to the advertising content being presented in a video stream on a display device that is in a field of view of the user, wherein the field of view of the user is determined based upon eye movements of the user sensed by the first camera, and wherein the video stream having the one or more visual cues is captured by the second camera;
wherein the processor is configured to transmit information about the advertising content captured by the second camera to an external server that is connected to the wearable wireless structure, wherein the information identifies the one or more visual cues present in the advertising content actively viewed by the user;
wherein the external server is configured to identify the advertising content based upon the visual cues identified in the commercial content and to infer an interest of the user related to the viewed advertising content based upon the user actively viewing the identified advertising content, wherein the external server is further configured to select additional content for subsequent presentation to the user based on the inferred interest.

2 . The integrated virtual environment device of claim 1 , further comprises:
including at least one of an electronic compass, an accelerometer, and a location component communicatively coupled to the processor for determining the information regarding whether a user is actively viewing a set of advertising content within the field of view of the user by performing actions of capturing the set of commercial content while the commercial content is displayed on a display device.

3 . The integrated virtual environment device of claim 2 , wherein the wearable wireless structure comprises an eyeglass frame that is integrated with at least the first camera.

4 . The integrated virtual environment device of claim 3 , wherein the wearable wireless structure comprises the eyeglass frame that is integrated with at least a second camera to determine whether a display by a display device of the commercial content is within the field of view of the user using an eye-tracking component that identifies the eye movements of the user.

5 . The integrated virtual environment device of claim 4 , further including an interface configured to at least a Bluetooth standard to communicatively coupled to the processor to communicate wirelessly with the server.

6 . An automated process performed by an integrated virtual environment device configured to detect viewing of commercial content provided in a video stream on a display device while the integrated virtual environment device is being worn by a user, wherein the integrated virtual environment device comprises a forward-facing camera and a rear-facing camera that monitors eye movements of the user viewing the display device, wherein the automated process comprises:
capturing, with the forward-facing camera of the integrated virtual environment device, at least a portion of the video stream provided on the display device that comprises the commercial content; identifying, by the integrated virtual environment device, the commercial content based upon visual cues in the video stream provided on the display device; detecting, by the rear-facing camera based upon eye movements of the user detected by the rear-facing camera, that the display device providing the video stream is within a field of view of the user so that the user is actually watching the commercial content; inferring, in response to the eye movements of the user indicating that the user is actually viewing the commercial content having the visual cues on the display device, an interest of the user related to the identified commercial content; and selecting additional content for the user based upon the inferred interest of the user.

7 . The automated process of claim 6 , further comprising:
wherein the inferring is performed by a personality server that is used to determine a viewing pattern of the user.

8 . The automated process of claim 7 , further comprising:
determining, by the personality server, based on the viewing pattern of the user a genre of commercial content that is watched by the user.

9 . The automated process of claim 8 , further comprising:
determining, by the personality server, based on the viewing pattern of the user the genre of commercial content that is watched by the user.

10 . The automated process of claim 9 , further comprising:
in response to a determination of the genre of commercial content, targeting by the personality server, the additional content to the user using at least a social networking.

11 . The automated process of claim 10 , further comprising:
inferring, by the personality server, the commercial content for providing to the user based on the viewing pattern of the user and the interest for sharing to a third-party server for commercialization.

12 . The automated process of claim 6 , further comprising:
presenting the user with additional commercial content on the display device of the integrated virtual environment based on previous viewing patterns.

Assignees

• Dish Tech Llc

Inventors

• Hardy Christofer

Classifications

• G06Q30/0267

  Wireless devices · CPC title

• G06Q30/0242

  Determining effectiveness of advertisements · CPC title

• H04N21/812

  involving advertisement data (advertising per se G06Q30/02) · CPC title

• H04N21/44213

  Monitoring of end-user related data (arrangements for monitoring the users' behaviour or opinions in broadcast systems H04H60/33) · CPC title

• H04N21/44204

  Monitoring of content usage, e.g. the number of times a movie has been viewed, copied or the amount which has been watched (monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; protecting generic digital content where the protection is independent of the precise nature of the content G06F21/10; arrangements for monitoring the use made of the broadcast services in broadcast systems H04H60/31) · CPC title