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- Patent Title: Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to provide secondary content in association with primary broadcast media content
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Application No.: US16426803Application Date: 2019-05-30
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Publication No.: US11004456B2Publication Date: 2021-05-11
- Inventor: David Henry Harkness , Arun Ramaswamy , Jerome Samson , Jan Besehanic , Venugopal Srinivasan , Alexander Pavlovich Topchy
- Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
- Applicant Address: US NY New York
- Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
- Current Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US NY New York
- Agency: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC
- Main IPC: G10L19/018
- IPC: G10L19/018 ; H04H20/31 ; H04H20/86 ; H04H60/68 ; H04N21/258 ; H04N21/41 ; H04N21/439 ; H04N21/442 ; H04N21/658 ; H04N7/173 ; H04H60/14 ; G06Q30/02

Abstract:
Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to provide media content are disclosed. Example apparatus disclosed herein include means for identifying primary media content presented on a first media presentation device. Disclosed example apparatus also include means for accessing a secondary content schedule associated with the primary media content. The secondary content schedule includes a plurality of secondary content items and time values associated with the secondary content items. The secondary content items are also associated with a loyalty value for a user of the first media presentation device. Disclosed example apparatus further include means for selecting one of the secondary content items to be accessed in response to a timestamp associated with the primary media content being between time values associated with the selected one of the secondary content items in the secondary content schedule.
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