Abstract:
Methods and systems to provide targeted advertising in a subscription television setting, wherein the households that receive the targeted advertisement may retain anonymity. This may be achieved by marrying an anonymization protocol and infrastructure with a mechanism for STB selection and reporting. This anonymizes the set of households that are selected to play an ad, by ensuring that when an STB meets defined criteria and sends a 'criteria met' message (during the selection process) or 'ad shown' message (during a validation or counting process) to a head end, an STB or household identifier is not revealed, thus anonymizing the household information from the head end. In addition, this allows the head end to control the ad campaign process by advertising only to those households that meet specified criteria, and to count the number of actual instances in which an ad was displayed. The head end is able to count the number of times an ad was displayed, without knowing which particular household(s) viewed the ad.
Abstract:
Techniques are disclosed that involve detecting and tracking groups of people associated with a user device (e.g., people watching television), and customizing the experience to the group. Various features may be employed. Such features may include classification of individuals, identification of commonly occurring groupings of people, and identification of the presence of group outsiders. Based on the presence of such individuals, groups, and/or outsiders, delivery of information to the user device may be controlled.
Abstract:
An embodiment of the present invention provides a method of relationship characterization and utilization from a user's social network, comprising, using monitoring agents for the user's social network to create a unique profile of each contact in the social network by feeding data into a context aware framework, clustering raw data by extracting common interests and relevant keywords, thereby creating rich context-aware lists of keywords that characterize relationships among users of the social networks, and providing an interface to query the lists.
Abstract:
An embodiment of the present invention provides a method of offering anonymous incentive based context to service providers, comprising delivering context information of a user to the service provider, wherein prior to delivery of the context information to the service provider, the context is anonymized by removing identifying information and aggregating it with context from additional users.
Abstract:
resumo patente de invenção: “dispositivos de transmissão de potência sem fio, métodos para sinalizar informações de acesso para rede de comunicação sem fio e método para autorizar dispositivo de recebimento de potência sem fio”. a presente invenção refere-se a um dispositivo de transmissão de potência sem fio descrito que compreende um transmissor de potência para transmitir de modo sem fio potência para um dispositivo de recebimento de potência sem fio, um controlador configurado para controlar a transferência de potência sem fio ao dispositivo de recebimento de potência sem fio por meio de um canal de controle de transferência de potência sem fio de uma primeira rede de comunicação sem fio entre o dispositivo de transmissão de potência sem fio e o dispositivo de recebimento de potência sem fio e um circuito de sinalização configurado para sinalizar informações de acesso para uma segunda rede de comunicação sem fio por meio do canal de controle de transferência de potência sem fio.
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Abstract:
Methods, systems and computer program products that allow for the determination of human presence in a room where content is being presented. The audio that is associated with the content may be captured, along with the audio that is being generated collectively by whatever sources may be in the room including the presentation of the content. Features may be extracted from both the content audio and the room audio. These features may then be compared, and the differences may be quantified. If the differences are significant, then human presence may be inferred.