US20100257041A1 - Ensuring That Advertisements Are Played - Google Patents
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- This invention relates generally to advertising insertion in audio, video, game, or software content distribution systems.
- Systems are available for distributing a wide variety of content to users.
- the users may select a particular content they wish to play.
- the user in return for a given number of advertisement viewings, the user may be entitled to play a certain amount of content. Thus, it is important to ensure that the user actually plays the advertising material.
- a variety of stripping programs, fast forwarding functions, muting and masking functions are available in digital playback devices. The risk arises for advertisers that the users may avoid actually playing the advertising material in a human understandable way. If the advertising material is never played, it will have no effect.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram of one embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 2 is a flow chart for software, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.
- a processor-based system 10 may include a media player 60 that plays electronic content.
- Electronic content may include video such as television, audio, games, software, or other media.
- the media player 60 may be, for example, a compact disk player, a magnetic card reader, an MP-3 player, or a digital video disk player, as examples.
- the processor-based system 10 may be a conventional desktop computer system, a set-top box, or a processor-based appliance, as examples.
- the processor-based system 10 may include the media player 60 , a display system 54 for displaying visual material and a sound system 56 for playing audio material.
- the processor-based system 10 includes a processor 40 coupled to a host bus 42 .
- the host bus 42 couples a north bridge 44 , a system memory 48 , and a level two or L2 cache 46 .
- the north bridge 44 is in turn coupled to a bus 50 that couples to the display 54 through the display controller 52 .
- the display 54 may be a conventional computer monitor or it may be a television receiver, as examples.
- Also coupled to the bus 50 is an audio accelerator 58 b.
- the audio accelerator 58 b is coupled to a digital-to-analog converter 26 that in turn is coupled to the sound system 56 .
- the sound system 56 may include speakers 16 ′ and 16 ′′.
- a south bridge 62 coupled to the bus 50 is a south bridge 62 .
- the south bridge 62 is coupled to hubs that in turn couple to the media player 60 and a storage 66 such as a hard disk drive.
- Software 90 for implementing certain features of one embodiment of the present invention may be stored on the storage 66 .
- the bus 76 is also coupled to the south bridge 62 .
- the bus 76 is in turn coupled to a serial input/output (SIO) device 78 and a basic input/output system (BIOS) storage 88 .
- the bus 78 may be coupled to a keyboard 80 , a modem 84 , and other peripheral devices 82 , for example, for allowing games to be played.
- the modem 84 may allow the processor-based system 10 to be coupled to a content distribution system such as the Internet.
- content may be received through airwave broadcasts, satellite systems, or cable television systems, as additional examples. In each case, the content may be provided to the system 10 over any available transport.
- the watermark detector 60 detects whether watermarks present in the content received from a content provider are actually played as intended. For example, the watermark detector 60 may detect whether the watermarked material is played in full at the predetermined play speed and is not otherwise muted, masked, fast-forwarded or stripped from the content.
- the watermark detector 60 may be coupled to the media player 60 to control the play of content on the media player 60 . Thus, content may not be played through the system 10 unless certain advertising material containing a watermark is played as originally intended.
- the watermark may be a faint signal that is embedded in the advertising content, that is unstrippable and may not be degraded without degrading the desired content to an unacceptable extent.
- the faint signal may be designed to be undetectable by users.
- Watermarks are commonly used with content to protect them from being digitized or re-sampled in the output/analog domain for resubmission to players as “copy always” material. Thus, watermarks are traditionally used to prevent or reveal theft of proprietary material.
- watermark detector 60 may also be detected by the watermark detector 60 to ensure that watermarked advertising material is played as originally intended.
- advertising material that includes a watermark with an appropriate security code may be detected by the watermark detector 60 .
- the watermark detector 60 may determine the fidelity of the watermark and the time when the watermark is activated. The detector 60 may ensure that the advertising material is not fast forwarded or otherwise altered.
- the watermark detector 60 may directly monitor the video or audio input/output channels to ensure that the channels correctly extract the advertising watermark if, and only if, the advertising is played by the digital output channel at the proper rate and for the duration of the advertising, with no extraneous masking.
- the extracted advertising security code or watermark is then returned to a media player application to allow decryption of the remaining content by the media player 60 .
- the watermark may be utilized to accrue digital coupons in return for playing the advertising. That is, instead of only controlling the play of content, the detection of the watermarks in the advertising may also be used to accrue rewards or benefits to users who actually play the advertisements as originally designed.
- the watermark may be extracted and a security code may be parsed from the watermark.
- This information may be combined by the processor-based system 10 with an identifier for a particular user.
- the advertisement together with the user identifier may be collected for market research purposes.
- the watermark detector 60 may be utilized with content that is recorded on a medium such as a magnetic disk as well as content that is received with the watermark over an appropriate distribution network, such as the Internet, or even a television distribution network such as an airwave, cable or satellite network.
- the software 90 stored on the storage 66 may initially determine whether the time for a commercial has arrived, as indicated in diamond 92 .
- commercials may be inserted at predetermined times.
- the software 90 may begin by determining if a commercial insertion time has arrived.
- the act illustrated by the diamond 92 may be unnecessary.
- a check at diamond 94 determines whether the detector flag has been set.
- the detector flag may be set by the watermark detector 60 when the watermark detector 60 determines that a commercial has been played appropriately. This may include determining whether the commercial is played for the desired amount of time and at the desired speed.
- This determination that the commercial was played correctly may be based on stored, predetermined characterizing information for all or a variety of commercials. For example, it may be known that all commercials have a predetermined speed and a predetermined duration.
- the watermark detector 60 may access a database either on the system 10 or externally thereof to determine the characteristics of a given commercial, for example, in a given piece of content, or at a given time. The watermark detector 60 may then compare that information to what is actually detected through the digital-to-analog converter 26 .
- the detector 60 may set a flag for the software 90 to detect.
- the software 90 reports a play validation as indicated at block 96 .
- the software 90 may report to external sources that the advertisement was actually played by a given processor-based system 10 as intended. This feedback to the advertiser may provide confirmation that in fact the advertising program is being executed as intended. It may also be utilized to develop statistics in some embodiments.
- the advertisement identifier may be added to a particular user's profile as indicated in block 98 .
- a user profile may be developed for everyone who uses a given processor-based system 10 . This profile may be developed by requiring a password to begin using the system 10 . As a result, a profile may be developed indicating which commercials are viewed by particular users.
- This user profile information may be utilized to award credits, points, or rewards to particular users based on their commercial viewing practices.
- the profile may be provided to marketing operations for targeted advertisements for particular users.
- the media player 60 may be unlocked as indicated in block 100 .
- this may mean that a key is provided for decrypting encrypted content and allowing the play of that content in return for having watched a commercial.
- the media player 60 may be allowed to actually operate to play the rest of the content.
- the system 10 either decrypts or allows the play of content received from an external source.
Abstract
A system may confirm that advertising was played as originally intended. For example, in one embodiment, a system may determine that an advertisement was played as originally intended and in return, a credit may be provided to the user. This credit may be the ability to play content that the user wishes to play or the credit may be in the form of rewards that are provided to the user, as another example. Thus, the system determines whether the advertisements are played correctly, for example, by detecting watermarks encoded within the advertising, and in return, provides indications that reward the user for playing the advertisement as intended.
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- This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/690,512, filed on Oct. 17, 2000.
- This invention relates generally to advertising insertion in audio, video, game, or software content distribution systems.
- Systems are available for distributing a wide variety of content to users. In some cases, the users may select a particular content they wish to play. In many cases, it is desirable to insert commercials or advertisements into the content as the content is selected.
- In one model, in return for a given number of advertisement viewings, the user may be entitled to play a certain amount of content. Thus, it is important to ensure that the user actually plays the advertising material.
- A variety of stripping programs, fast forwarding functions, muting and masking functions are available in digital playback devices. The risk arises for advertisers that the users may avoid actually playing the advertising material in a human understandable way. If the advertising material is never played, it will have no effect.
- The net effect of such circumvention may be that free or low cost content may not be made available. In other words, if advertisers cannot be assured that the advertising will actually be played (as opposed to being circumvented), they may be unwilling to subsidize the electronic distribution of content.
- Therefore, there is a need for a way to ensure that advertising material inserted in content is actually played as originally designed and intended by the advertiser.
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FIG. 1 is a block diagram of one embodiment of the present invention; and -
FIG. 2 is a flow chart for software, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention. - Referring to
FIG. 1 , a processor-basedsystem 10 may include amedia player 60 that plays electronic content. Electronic content may include video such as television, audio, games, software, or other media. Themedia player 60 may be, for example, a compact disk player, a magnetic card reader, an MP-3 player, or a digital video disk player, as examples. - The processor-based
system 10 may be a conventional desktop computer system, a set-top box, or a processor-based appliance, as examples. The processor-basedsystem 10 may include themedia player 60, adisplay system 54 for displaying visual material and asound system 56 for playing audio material. - The processor-based
system 10 includes aprocessor 40 coupled to ahost bus 42. Thehost bus 42 couples anorth bridge 44, asystem memory 48, and a level two orL2 cache 46. - The
north bridge 44 is in turn coupled to abus 50 that couples to thedisplay 54 through thedisplay controller 52. Thedisplay 54 may be a conventional computer monitor or it may be a television receiver, as examples. Also coupled to thebus 50 is anaudio accelerator 58 b. Theaudio accelerator 58 b is coupled to a digital-to-analog converter 26 that in turn is coupled to thesound system 56. Thesound system 56 may includespeakers 16′ and 16″. - Also, coupled to the
bus 50 is asouth bridge 62. Thesouth bridge 62 is coupled to hubs that in turn couple to themedia player 60 and astorage 66 such as a hard disk drive.Software 90 for implementing certain features of one embodiment of the present invention may be stored on thestorage 66. - Also coupled to the
south bridge 62, is anadditional bus 76. Thebus 76 is in turn coupled to a serial input/output (SIO)device 78 and a basic input/output system (BIOS)storage 88. Thebus 78 may be coupled to akeyboard 80, amodem 84, and otherperipheral devices 82, for example, for allowing games to be played. - The
modem 84 may allow the processor-basedsystem 10 to be coupled to a content distribution system such as the Internet. In addition, content may be received through airwave broadcasts, satellite systems, or cable television systems, as additional examples. In each case, the content may be provided to thesystem 10 over any available transport. - Coupled to the digital-to-
analog converter 26 is awatermark detector 60. Thewatermark detector 60 detects whether watermarks present in the content received from a content provider are actually played as intended. For example, thewatermark detector 60 may detect whether the watermarked material is played in full at the predetermined play speed and is not otherwise muted, masked, fast-forwarded or stripped from the content. Thewatermark detector 60 may be coupled to themedia player 60 to control the play of content on themedia player 60. Thus, content may not be played through thesystem 10 unless certain advertising material containing a watermark is played as originally intended. - The watermark may be a faint signal that is embedded in the advertising content, that is unstrippable and may not be degraded without degrading the desired content to an unacceptable extent. The faint signal may be designed to be undetectable by users. Watermarks are commonly used with content to protect them from being digitized or re-sampled in the output/analog domain for resubmission to players as “copy always” material. Thus, watermarks are traditionally used to prevent or reveal theft of proprietary material.
- These same watermarks may also be detected by the
watermark detector 60 to ensure that watermarked advertising material is played as originally intended. Thus, advertising material that includes a watermark with an appropriate security code may be detected by thewatermark detector 60. Thewatermark detector 60 may determine the fidelity of the watermark and the time when the watermark is activated. Thedetector 60 may ensure that the advertising material is not fast forwarded or otherwise altered. - The
watermark detector 60 may directly monitor the video or audio input/output channels to ensure that the channels correctly extract the advertising watermark if, and only if, the advertising is played by the digital output channel at the proper rate and for the duration of the advertising, with no extraneous masking. The extracted advertising security code or watermark is then returned to a media player application to allow decryption of the remaining content by themedia player 60. - Alternatively, the watermark may be utilized to accrue digital coupons in return for playing the advertising. That is, instead of only controlling the play of content, the detection of the watermarks in the advertising may also be used to accrue rewards or benefits to users who actually play the advertisements as originally designed.
- As still another example, the watermark may be extracted and a security code may be parsed from the watermark. This information may be combined by the processor-based
system 10 with an identifier for a particular user. Thus, the advertisement together with the user identifier may be collected for market research purposes. - The
watermark detector 60 may be utilized with content that is recorded on a medium such as a magnetic disk as well as content that is received with the watermark over an appropriate distribution network, such as the Internet, or even a television distribution network such as an airwave, cable or satellite network. - Turning to
FIG. 2 , thesoftware 90 stored on thestorage 66, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, may initially determine whether the time for a commercial has arrived, as indicated indiamond 92. In one embodiment, commercials may be inserted at predetermined times. In such case, thesoftware 90 may begin by determining if a commercial insertion time has arrived. In other embodiments in which the commercials are provided automatically, for example, before the content is actually played, the act illustrated by thediamond 92 may be unnecessary. - Once it has been determined that there is reason to monitor the play of a commercial, a check at
diamond 94 determines whether the detector flag has been set. The detector flag may be set by thewatermark detector 60 when thewatermark detector 60 determines that a commercial has been played appropriately. This may include determining whether the commercial is played for the desired amount of time and at the desired speed. - This determination that the commercial was played correctly may be based on stored, predetermined characterizing information for all or a variety of commercials. For example, it may be known that all commercials have a predetermined speed and a predetermined duration. Alternatively, the
watermark detector 60 may access a database either on thesystem 10 or externally thereof to determine the characteristics of a given commercial, for example, in a given piece of content, or at a given time. Thewatermark detector 60 may then compare that information to what is actually detected through the digital-to-analog converter 26. - In any case, if the
detector 60 determines that the advertisement has been correctly played, in one embodiment of the present invention, it may set a flag for thesoftware 90 to detect. When the flag setting is detected, thesoftware 90 reports a play validation as indicated atblock 96. In other words, thesoftware 90 may report to external sources that the advertisement was actually played by a given processor-basedsystem 10 as intended. This feedback to the advertiser may provide confirmation that in fact the advertising program is being executed as intended. It may also be utilized to develop statistics in some embodiments. - Next, in some embodiments, the advertisement identifier may be added to a particular user's profile as indicated in
block 98. A user profile may be developed for everyone who uses a given processor-basedsystem 10. This profile may be developed by requiring a password to begin using thesystem 10. As a result, a profile may be developed indicating which commercials are viewed by particular users. - This user profile information may be utilized to award credits, points, or rewards to particular users based on their commercial viewing practices. In addition, the profile may be provided to marketing operations for targeted advertisements for particular users.
- Next, the
media player 60 may be unlocked as indicated inblock 100. In one embodiment, this may mean that a key is provided for decrypting encrypted content and allowing the play of that content in return for having watched a commercial. As another example, themedia player 60 may be allowed to actually operate to play the rest of the content. In still another embodiment, thesystem 10 either decrypts or allows the play of content received from an external source. - While the present invention has been described with respect to a limited number of embodiments, those skilled in the art will appreciate numerous modifications and variations therefrom. It is intended that the appended claims cover all such modifications and variations as fall within the true spirit and scope of this present invention.
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1. A system comprising:
a processor-based device; and
a watermark detector coupled to said device, said watermark detector to detect a watermark included with an advertisement and to control media playback in response to detection of the watermark.
2. The system of claim 1 further including a storage coupled to said device, said storage storing instructions that, if executed, enable the processor-based device to monitor the watermark included with the advertisement and accrue a credit after determining the advertisement was played.
3. The system of claim 2 wherein said storage stores instructions that, if executed, enable the device to allow access to content.
4. The system of claim 2 wherein said storage stores instructions that, if executed, enable the device to accrue a reward in return for playing the advertisement.
5. The system of claim 1 wherein said watermark detector determines whether an advertisement was played at a predetermined speed.
6. The system of claim 1 wherein said storage stores content for subsequent replay.
7. A method comprising:
monitoring a watermark included with an advertisement; and
controlling media play in response to monitoring the watermark.
8. The method of claim 7 including determining that the advertisement was played, based on the watermark.
9. The method of claim 7 including controlling operation of a media player to play content based on a credit and to use said watermark to accrue said credit.
10. An article comprising a medium storing instructions that, if executed, enable a processor-based system to:
monitor a watermark included with an advertisement; and
control operation of a media player in response to monitoring the watermark.
11. The article of claim 10 , said medium storing instructions to control the media player to play content based on a credit and to use said watermark to accrue said credit.
12. The article of claim 10 storing instructions that, if executed, enable the processor-based system to determine that the advertisement was played, based on the watermark.
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