ABROADCASTING COMPANY Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140215503 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR APPROXIMATING CHARACTERISTICS OF HOUSEHOLDS FOR TARGETED ADVERTISEMENT - During the display of video content to a viewing audience, a system receives feedback information from the viewing audience concerning the displayed video content. At a later time and based on the feedback, the system substitutes portions of a downloaded data stream with different content. | 07-31-2014 |
20130210340 | BROADCASTING AND RECEIVING EMERGENCY ALERTS - A device can receive an alert marker corresponding to an alert for broadcast programming content. The apparatus can further broadcast the programming content on one radio broadcast channel and broadcast the alert content of the alert on another broadcast channel. Based on the alert marker, the device can change the channel from the broadcast channel with the programming content to the broadcast channel with the alert content. The apparatus can also remove portions of broadcast programming content and replace it with the alert content. | 08-15-2013 |
20120203922 | LINKED-LIST HYBRID PEER-TO-PEER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING THROUGHPUT SPEED AND PREVENTING DATA STARVATION - A system and method is described for formulating a linked-list hybrid peer-to-peer sub-network that analyzes capabilities of plurality of nodes, and creating at least two linked-list hybrid peer-to-peer sub-networks by forming a first group of nodes of the plurality of nodes having similar capabilities and establishing serial connections between nodes of the first group of nodes to form a first linked-list hybrid peer-to-peer sub-network. | 08-09-2012 |
20090106785 | System and Method for Approximating Characteristics of Households for Targeted Advertisement - According to one embodiment of the invention, a method of operation involves two operations. The first operation involves receiving feedback information from a viewing audience concerning a displayed video content. After receipt of the feedback, substituting portions of a downloaded data stream with video content selected based on the feedback information. | 04-23-2009 |