Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method for promoting marketable items
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Application No.: US12037756Application Date: 2008-02-26
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Publication No.: US08745670B2Publication Date: 2014-06-03
- Inventor: Scott White
- Applicant: Scott White
- Applicant Address: US GA Atlanta
- Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP
- Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP
- Current Assignee Address: US GA Atlanta
- Agency: Guntin & Gust, PLC
- Agent Jay H. Anderson
- Main IPC: G06F13/00
- IPC: G06F13/00 ; G06F3/00 ; H04N7/16

Abstract:
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media processor having a controller to receive from a media communication system metadata describing one or more marketable items depicted in a media program supplied by the media communication system, present images of the media program at a media presentation device without highlighting the one or more marketable items, present an icon at least at one of a remote controller managing operations of the media processor or the media presentation device to indicate a presence of the one or more marketable items in one or more of the images presented at the media presentation device, detect a selection of the icon, and highlight the one or more marketable items. Other embodiments are disclosed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090217317A1 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROMOTING MARKETABLE ITEMS Public/Granted day:2009-08-27
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