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| 20100088716 | CONTENT SLOTS FOR DIGITAL MEDIA - A method wherein digital content, distributed on DVD (standard and High Definition variants such as Blue-Ray), CD (Computer Disk), or other digital storage media or downloaded as one or more files or streamed or broadcast is played interspersed with one or more advertising slots (also referred to in this disclosure as just-in-time content slots). Also detailed is method and steps for discovery of advertising slot information and fetching content for each slot by DVD players or end-user equipment that enable just-in-time content slots per this disclosure. Also included is method and steps for managing DVD advertising slot inventory, targeting of advertisements, building and operating advertising network including market place for buying/selling/auctioning advertising spot inventory, making available advertisements for pickup by advertising slot publishers, and tracking of advertising performance as well as tracking of advertising slot performance. Further, method and steps to enable new advertising offerings, such as variable CPM, based on the length of advertising that has been watched plus method and steps to provide auto-detection of end-of-content is detailed which can facilitate new rental/purchase business models. Included are also method and steps for integrating social networking aspects. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20110066366 | LOCATION BASED SYSTEM WITH CONTEXTUAL CONTACT MANAGER MECHANISM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A method of operation of a location based system includes: detecting an event; establishing an event context time associated with the event; establishing a geofence associated with the event; and identifying an event participant, associated with the event, with the event participant within the geofence during the event context time for displaying on a device. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110066690 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL ANTI-SPAM MECHANISM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A method of operation of a communication system includes: establishing a geofence; setting a reception time period; and receiving a message originating within the geofence and within the reception time period for displaying on a device. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110070872 | LOCATION BASED SYSTEM WITH CONTEXTUAL LOCATOR AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A method of operation of a location based system includes: detecting an event; establishing a geofence associated with the event; setting a search time window associated with the event; identifying an event participant that is associated with the event; and identifying a matching target as the event participant located within the geofence during the search time window for displaying on a device. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110098911 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM WITH VIDEO AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A method of operation of a navigation system includes: detecting a surrounding view for detecting an object at a traffic lane to the left or the right of a device as well as in the front or at the rear of the device; presenting the surrounding view for displaying on the device; and generating an alert with a detection of the object at or exceeding a threshold. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110106421 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM WITH SINGLE SELECTION MILEAGE SINGLE CAPTURE MECHANISM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A method of operation of a navigation system includes: generating a travel route having a business location for displaying on a device; calculating a current location along the travel route; identifying a travel segment with the current location; calculating a travel distance for the travel segment; and verifying the travel distance based on where the business location is within the travel segment. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110161432 | LOCATION BASED SYSTEM WITH LOCATION-ENABLED MESSAGING AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A method of operation of a location based system includes: submitting a tagged message having a message content, a trigger, and a recipient identifier; determining a location reading for locating a recipient associated with the recipient identifier; determining a temporal reading associated with the recipient identifier; and displaying the message content on a device having the recipient identifier, the message content displayed based on the trigger with the location reading, the temporal reading, or a combination thereof. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110238406 | MESSAGING SYSTEM WITH TRANSLATION AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A method of operation of a messaging system includes: receiving a source message; identifying a phrase of the source message; searching a translation hierarchy for the phrase, the translation hierarchy having multiple dictionaries in a priority order; and translating a target message, for displaying on a device, from the source message based on the translation hierarchy. | 09-29-2011 |
