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WO2023003861A1
WO2023003861A1 PCT/US2022/037567 US2022037567W WO2023003861A1 WO 2023003861 A1 WO2023003861 A1 WO 2023003861A1 US 2022037567 W US2022037567 W US 2022037567W WO 2023003861 A1 WO2023003861 A1 WO 2023003861A1
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  • the disclosure relates generally to a system and method for digital marketing and the provision of digital content. While the present disclosure will be described in relation to its application in relation to analog radio broadcasts. It is to be appreciated that the present disclosure is not z to this application, and is also applicable for other forms of media broadcasts including, but not restricted to, digital radio and analog and digital television broadcasts.
  • communication mediums can include radio or television (both over the air and digitally) in which commercials and advertisements are presently orally to each audience member who is listening to a particular radio station or viewing a particular television station. It is desirable to be able to permit each audience member to identify a commercial or advertisement in the media broadcast and then provide a personalized offer to that audience member and it is to this end that the disclosure is directed.
  • FIG. 1 A illustrates an example of a cloud based implementation of an analog radio broadcast content scanner system that facilitates digital marketing
  • FIG. IB illustrates more details of the preferred implementation of the personal ad system shown in FIG. 1;
  • FIGS. 2A-2C illustrate examples of the program/playlists of a broadcast system
  • FIG. 3 illustrates a digital marketing method for an analog radio broadcast
  • FIG. 4 illustrates more details of the computing device shown in FIG. 1 A;
  • FIG. 5 illustrates more details of the radio system server shown in FIG. 1 A;
  • FIG. 6 illustrates more details of the personal ad system server shown in FIG. 1A;
  • FIG. 7 illustrates an example of a user interface for the application
  • FIG. 8 illustrates another embodiment of the digital marketing system for a digital IP based system
  • FIG. 9 illustrates a digital marketing method for use with an IP based digital system
  • FIGS. 10A and 10B illustrate examples of the digital data streams of the IP based digital system provided to different users.
  • the disclosure can be applicable to an analog radio system that uses an application or website to digitally deliver content to a user based on the broadcast analog radio signal with a computing device and a personal offer system that can provide a personal offer using a progressive web application (PWA) to the user based on the pieces of content being broadcast by the analog radio station and it is in this context that the disclosure will be described.
  • PWA progressive web application
  • the personalized offer system may be implemented on a computing device using other known or yet to be developed technology in lieu of the progressive web application; 2) the system and method may be used with other types of content other than radio content delivered over the air, and can include digitally delivered radio and television as well as television delivered over the air; and 3) the personalized offer system may be implemented on other devices that are capable to performing the processes described below including a virtual reality device or headset, a pair of glasses with embedded computer functionality and the like. The system and method may also be implemented using an application or mobile application rather than a PWA.
  • system and method described below may be used with various content broadcasts that may be delivered to a user as a live radio or television broadcast (either over the air or over a computer network), a streaming broadcast, a catch-up service broadcast, a podcast and the like.
  • system may be used with digital broadcasts or analog broadcasts of content to the user.
  • a method comprising: expressing, by a user using an application executed on a computing device while a piece of content is being broadcast using an analog or digital signal by an analog or digital radio or television station system, an interest in the broadcast piece of content; communicating the interest in the broadcast piece of content to a backend system; selecting, in the backend system, an end point destination associated with the broadcast piece of content, the end point destination being a pointer to further digital information about the broadcast piece of content; communicating, by the backend system to the computing device, the end point destination for the broadcast piece of content; and accessing, using the computing device and the end point destination, the further digital information about the broadcast piece of content.
  • the method further comprises providing, by a digital marketing system in the backend system connected to the computing device, a personalized offer associated with the broadcast piece of content and displaying, on a display of the computing device, the personalized offer to the user.
  • the method further comprises providing a playlist for the broadcast by the analog or digital radio or television station system to the backend system, the playlist having one or more discrete pieces of content and storing, in the backend system, an association of each discrete piece of content in the broadcast with a particular end point destination.
  • Providing the playlist may further comprise providing, for each discrete piece of content in the broadcast, a start time and an end time for each discrete piece of content.
  • the method further comprises activating the end point destination for each discrete piece of content at the start time for each discrete piece of content in the playlist and deactivating the end point destination for each discrete piece of content at the end time for each discrete piece of content in the playlist and wherein expressing interest for the broadcast piece of content further comprises expressing interest in the discrete piece of content while the end point destination for the discrete piece of content is active.
  • the broadcast is selected from a group consisting of an analog broadcast, a streamed broadcast and an archived broadcast.
  • the application executed on the computing device is one of a progressive web application (PWA) or an application downloaded to the computing device.
  • the end point destination is a uniform resource locator (URL) to a webpage having digital information about the broadcast piece of content or content in an application having digital information about the broadcast piece of content.
  • the application executed on the computing device broadcasts the radio or television signal of the analog or digital radio or television station.
  • the radio signal of the analog or digital radio or television station is broadcast by a device separate from the computing device.
  • the device that broadcasts the radio signal of the analog radio station is a transistor radio.
  • a system comprising: an analog or digital radio or television broadcast system that broadcasts a plurality of pieces of discrete content, the analog radio broadcast system having a playlist that has each piece of discrete content being broadcast, a start time and end time for each piece of discrete content; a backend system that receives the playlist and stores an association of each piece of content in the playlist of the broadcast with a particular end point destination; a computing device having a processor and memory that executes an application that has a plurality of lines of code that are executed to: express, by the user while a particular piece of content is being broadcast by the analog or digital radio or television system, an interest in the broadcast piece of content; communicating the interest in the broadcast piece of content to the backend system; the backend system being configured to select an end point destination associated with the broadcast piece of content, the end point destination being a pointer to further information about the broadcast piece of content and communicate the end point destination for the broadcast piece of content to the computing device; and the computing device configured to access
  • the backend system further comprises a digital marketing system that provides a personalized offer associated with the broadcast piece of content and wherein a display of the computing device displays the personalized offer to the user.
  • the backend system activates the end point destination for each discrete piece of content at the start time for each discrete piece of content in the playlist and deactivates the end point destination for each discrete piece of content at the end time for each discrete piece of content in the playlist and wherein the computing device is further configured to express interest for the broadcast piece of content while the end point destination for the discrete piece of content is active.
  • the broadcast is selected from a group consisting of a live broadcast, a streamed broadcast and an archived broadcast.
  • the application executed on the computing device is one of a progressive web application (PWA) or an application downloaded to the computing device.
  • the end point destination is a uniform resource locator (URL) to a webpage having digital information about the broadcast piece of content or content in an application having digital information about the broadcast piece of content.
  • the application executed on the computing device broadcasts the radio or television signal of the analog or digital radio or television station.
  • the radio or television signal of the analog or digital or television radio station is broadcast by a device separate from the computing device.
  • the device that broadcasts the radio signal of the analog radio station is a transistor radio.
  • a computing device for interacting with an analog or digital radio or television broadcast system that broadcasts a plurality of pieces of discrete content, the broadcast system having a playlist that has each piece of discrete content being broadcast, a start time and end time for each piece of discrete content
  • the device comprising: a processor and memory that executes an application that is configured to: express, by the user while the piece of content is being broadcast by the analog or digital radio or television station, an interest in the broadcast piece of content; communicating the interest in the broadcast piece of content to a backend system; receive an end point destination associated with the broadcast piece of content of interest, the end point destination being a pointer to further information about the broadcast piece of content and communicate the end point destination for the broadcast piece of content to the computing device; and access the further information about the broadcast piece of content using the end point destination.
  • the device is further configured to display a personalized offer to the user. In some embodiments, the device is further configured to express interest for the broadcast piece of content while the end point destination for the discrete piece of content is active.
  • the analog or digital radio or television broadcast is selected from a group consisting of a live broadcast, a streamed broadcast and an archived broadcast.
  • the application executed on the computing device is one of a progressive web application (PWA) or an application downloaded to the computing device.
  • the end point destination is a uniform resource locator (URL) to a webpage having digital information about the broadcast piece of content or content in an application having digital information about the broadcast piece of content.
  • the application executed on the computing device broadcasts the radio signal of the analog digital radio station.
  • the system may for example be used for live radio being played in any location (car, shop, supermarket, etc.), on an analog radio, through a TV channel or through the app/PWA on the computing device. Furthermore, background noise does not affect the efficacy of the system.
  • the system allows a user to listen to an analog radio signal (generated by whatever device) and react/express interest about a piece of content in the broadcast using a PWA or application executing on the computing device (that may or or may not being presenting the radio signal to the user) wherein the user is delivered an end point destination to the PWA or application based on the particular piece of content. The end point destination in turn directs the user to further information about the piece of content.
  • the system allows the user to listen to an analog radio signal and express interest/react to a piece of content in the analog radio signal and receive a digital marketing message.
  • a company that owns at least one radio station also owns other media such as television or magazines and the system described herein can be used to provide information about products on the other media using the end point destinations.
  • FIG. 1 A illustrates an example of a cloud based implementation of an analog radio scanner system 100 that links analogue live radio broadcast (played on a 20 year old transistor radio, for example) to the digital world (and digital marketing) through a PWA or application on a computing device.
  • analogue live radio broadcast played on a 20 year old transistor radio, for example
  • digital marketing through a PWA or application on a computing device.
  • the system 100 may have one or more computing devices 102 that may connect to and communicate over a communication path 104 with one or more backend systems 106 in order to provide radio digital marketing so that a user of the computing device 102 may hear a piece of content (commercial, advertorial, public service announcement, news-story, etc.) broadcast on a radio station (whether over the air or digital or streaming) and the user may indicate an interest in the piece of content currently being broadcast on the radio station.
  • the system may communicate, back to the computing device, an end point destination that is associated with the piece of content, such as one or more personalized detail s/offers or other information.
  • each user of each computing device 102 may listen to a radio station, using the application, and receive the end point destination related to the piece of content of interest to each user.
  • the analog radio signal may be broadcast by a device, such as a radio receiver.
  • Each computing device 102 may be a processor based device with memory, a display, an input device and connectivity circuits wherein the display may generate and display a user interface (see FIG. 7 for an example) so that the user can indicate interest in a particular piece of content broadcast by the radio stations and display the one or more personalized offers or other information based on the end point destination.
  • the input device of the computing device 102 allows the user to interact with the user interface and the connectivity circuits may permit the computing device to connect and communicate wirelessly or over a wired line with the backend systems 106.
  • each computing device 102 may be a laptop computer, a tablet computer, a smartphone device, such as an Apple iPhone or an Android OS based device or a personal computer as shown in FIG. 1 A.
  • each computing device may have an application 102 A that is a plurality of lines of instructions or computer code that are stored in the memory of the computing device and executed by the processor to generate the user interface as described below.
  • Each application may be a mobile application or other application.
  • each application 102 A may be a branded Radio Station App/progressive web app (PWA) that may be available, for example, on Android Auto/ Apple Car Play.
  • PWA Radio Station App/progressive web app
  • the computing device 102 may be a processor based device that has limited capabilities, but does have access to the Internet and the system allows the user of this limited capability device to indicate an interest in content on the radio and receive digital marketing as a result of that expressed interest.
  • many computing devices 102 in India are feature phones that have limited capabilities, such as no ability to download apps, but has internet access and thus can use the PWA to indicate an interest in content on the radio and receive digital marketing as a result of that expressed interest.
  • the communication path 104 may be a wired link or a wireless link or a combination thereof that uses known communication and data transfer protocols that allow each computing device 120 to connect to and communicate with the backend systems 106.
  • the backend systems 106 may include one or more computing resources, such as a server computers, blade servers, cloud computing resources, etc.
  • the backend systems 106 may include, in an embodiment in which the radio is digital or streamed, one or more radio system servers 106 A that deliver a broadcast (such as digital or analog radio or a stream) to each computing device 102 and more specifically to an app 102 A.
  • Each radio system server 106 A may be owned by a third party and the system can provide its service to a plurality of radio systems 106 A.
  • the radio station system may be an analog radio station system that broadcasts via a transmitter the radio program over the air to listeners.
  • the backend system 106 may further include a personal ad system server 106B that: 1) receives the interest indication from each user of each computing device; 2) selects the end point destination (such as customized offers) for each user based on the interest indication; 3) delivers the end point destination to the user; and 4) permits the user to access the end point destination as described below.
  • the further information resulting from the end point destination, such as one or more customized offers, may be displayed to the user on the app 102 A or via a dynamic web page such as using a PWA.
  • FIG. IB illustrates more details of the preferred implementation of the backend system 106B shown in FIG. 1 A.
  • the backend 106B may have a presentation layer 110A that interfaces with each user of the system, a network layer 110B that handles the well known and understood network logistics such as load balancing and firewalls and a business layer 1 IOC and a data layer 110D that implement the main processes of the radio advertising system.
  • Each of the layers may be implemented using Amazon web systems (AWS) elements.
  • AWS Amazon web systems
  • FIG. IB each user (using an application, mobile application or PWA on a computing device 102) may hear a piece of content in a radio broadcast and interact with the backend 106B through the presentation layer 110 A.
  • the PWA or application may generate data that is sent to the backend system 106B that identifies the radio station performing the broadcast and the content.
  • the data for each user as a result of the interaction with the backend 106B may be passed onto the network layer 110B that has the well known load balancer and firewall (provided by AWS) that are not described further here.
  • the business layer 1 IOC may contain the various plurality of lines of code/instructions that perform the processes of the backend 106B.
  • the data layer 110D may store the data used by the backend 106B including user data, data about each broadcast, such as playlist, data about the URL/links to content interacted with by a user and other content.
  • Each broadcast system 106A shown in FIG. 1A interacts with the backend system 106B using an application programming interface (API).
  • Each broadcast system 106A may have a key, such as an API key, that allows the broadcast system 106 A to interact with the backend system 106B.
  • there may be an allocated unique key per broadcaster/station that may be stored in multiple apps/PWAs, but each station has its own unique identifier so that, for example, there could be a BBC radio scanner but they have about 15 radio stations.
  • each broadcast system 106A using the key may upload the programme/playlist for the particular broadcast system wherein the programme/playlist may include the archived broadcasts of the broadcast system so that the interaction system provided by the backend 106B may be utilized for both the active broadcasts and the archive broadcasts.
  • each piece of broadcast content may have a time marker to denote the beginning of the program (see examples in FIGS. 2A-2C) and a monitor within the app/PWA to determine when the live broadcast is paused. The time marker may be located in the audio file itself that the API key will identify.
  • the app/PWA from where the file is being played, the system knows the name of the recorded file/program and when each element of the broadcast starts and ends in granular detail (egg. adverts, interviews, commentary, music etc.).
  • FIGS. 2A-2C illustrate examples of the program/playlists of a broadcast system.
  • Each playlist program has one or more piece of content being broadcast and then one or more advertisements/articles/discussions/promotions/sponsor messages that the user can interact with as described below in more detail.
  • FIG. 2A shows a playlist 202 for a music type broadcast system in which one or more songs (SI, S2, . . . , SN) are broadcast along with one or more advertisements (Al, A2, . . . , A3) over a predetermined time of the playlist.
  • SI songs
  • S2 . . . , SN
  • advertisements Al, A2, . . . , A3
  • FIG. 2B illustrates a playlist 204 for a talk radio broadcast system that has one or more discussions (Dl, . . . , D2) and one or more promotions (PI, . . . , P2) in which the start and end times of each piece of content is known down to the millisecond.
  • Dl discussions
  • PI promotions
  • each piece of content such as the songs and ads in FIG. 2A, is a discrete piece of content that has a start time and an end time.
  • each piece of content being broadcast is identified (including its start and end time) so that each piece of content can be associated/linked to an end point destination and thus each piece of content in the broadcast becomes clickable by the user by interacting with the backend 106B.
  • all of the broadcast content (including archive content) becomes clickable by a user.
  • each piece of clickable content in the broadcast is synchronized with an end point destination (a URL or in-app content) associated with the particular piece of content.
  • an end point destination a URL or in-app content
  • a news story about a volcano in Ethiopia may had an end point destination for a travel site to book travel to the Erta Ale region in Ethiopia.
  • Each end point destination may be synchronized to be available to the user to select between the start time and end time of the piece of content in the playlist associated with the end point destination.
  • the backend 106B is able to provide the end point destinations for the pieces of content based solely on the time when the user expressed their interest in the piece of content. For example, if a particular piece of content was broadcast from 10:00 AM to 10:05 AM and the user expresses an interest at 10:03 AM, the backend 106B knows that the user is expressing an interest in the particular piece of content.
  • a user may interact with the broadcast system content as described in more detail with reference to FIG. 3.
  • the system due to the playlist, has millisecond precision about when to activate a particular end point destination (when the piece of content, ad, promotion, etc. starts being broadcast) and when to deactivate the particular end point destination (when the particular piece of content's broadcast has ended.)
  • the content sent to the computing device of the user and the app or PWA
  • the system can also handle the playlist being out of synchronization with the live broadcast such as when, for example, an interview last longer than scheduled.
  • a time correction shift can be performed manually or automatically in real time using various techniques, such as for example audio recognition, to re-synchronize the playlist with the live broadcast.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates a digital marketing method 300 for an analog radio broadcast.
  • the method 300 may be performed using the system 100 shown in FIGS. 1 A and IB, but may also be performed in other manners.
  • the method may be used with various analog radio systems that broadcast pieces of content including live radio stations (whether analog over the air or streaming) or archived content in which it is desirable to provide a way to provide digital marketing to the analog radio broadcast system.
  • the user may listen to the analog radio broadcast (302) in any manner.
  • the user may use a radio station app to listen to the radio station or may listen to the analog radio station using a separate device like a transistor radio. Note that each different user may be listening to a different radio station and each radio station may be coupled to the personal ad system 106B so that end point destinations may be delivered to each user listening to each radio station.
  • the user may hear a piece of content (ad, promotion, discussion, article, public announcement, sponsorship, news story, etc.) that is "interesting" to the user.
  • a piece of content (ad, promotion, discussion, article, public announcement, sponsorship, news story, etc.) that is "interesting" to the user.
  • the user may hear an advertisement for a particular entertainment experience, such as a baseball game/team.
  • the user may indicate their interest in the piece of content in the broadcast (304).
  • the user may use the radio station app/PWA app 102 A to indicate the interest in the piece of content and may click on an icon in the app (an example of which is shown in FIG. 7).
  • the interest by the user may be communicated over the communications path 104 to the backend digital marketing system 106B.
  • the backend digital marketing system 106B has the playlist for the broadcast with the different pieces of content and has one or more end point destinations for each piece of content.
  • the end point destinations will be moved based on timing and all of the end point destinations will be pre-programmed based on the playlist (songs and adverts), live interviews and news/ sport/traffic bulletins.
  • the application/PWA stores metadata about the user and the computing device (time, SKU, location, handset, language, version, OS, browser etc) so that the system may serve content personalized/relevant to each user if such content is available from the radio station/end point destination.
  • the application/PWA can direct that particular user to the store for the product thus increasing the foot traffic at the store.
  • the backend may provide the end point destination to the user (306) back to the computing device.
  • the application/native application may store the database of content and end point destination associations (instead of being stored in the backend) and thus select the end point destination for a particular piece of content.
  • the user may then interact with the end point destination and receive information about the service or product or piece of content (308).
  • the user can purchase a product or service based on the end point destination using the radio station app/PWA.
  • the user may be listening to national radio and an advertisement is broadcast for a particular product.
  • the user can express an interest in the advertisement and the product and the application/PWA may direct the user straight to that product on the brand/retailer's website/app.
  • the application/PWA can inform the user of the nearest store for the particular product based on the GPS positioning of the current location of the computing device when the user expressed the interest in the product.
  • the app 102A may be distributed by (or on behalf of) the broadcast system and may have a single icon for each user that each user can customize via the computing device app 102 A.
  • the app 102 A may be a 'RaydioActif app.
  • each car manufacturer may already have its own app in Car Play/ Auto and the personalized offer functionality may be added into that existing app and the car manufacturer may do the deals with the local country radio stations for a revenue share. The above embodiment provides a completely new revenue stream for the auto industry and the radio stations.
  • FIG. 4 illustrates more details of the computing device 102 shown in FIG. 1 A that has a display 402, a processor 404, connectivity circuits 406 and memory 408 that are connected together as is known in the art.
  • Each computing device may also have the app 102A and an operating system 102B that reside in the memory 408 and have a plurality of lines of instructions/computer code that are executed by the processor 404 of the computing device 102.
  • the functions and operations of the app 102A are described above.
  • the app 102A may be a progressive web app (PWA) that is a web application that can be saved to the homescreen of the computing device.
  • PWA progressive web app
  • the app may also be an application downloaded to the computing device. While the computing device 102 and the PWA are known technology, the disclosed radio personalized offer system and method using the computing device and PWA are not known in the marketing or digital marketing industry. Each computing device 102 may also have an input device, such as a touchscreen, keyboard, mouse, etc. that allows the user to interact with the computing device 102 and the app 102 A to, for example, indicate a piece of content of interest in the broadcast and select one of the one or more personalized offers provided to the user.
  • FIG. 5 illustrates more details of the broadcast system server 106a shown in FIG. 1 A that streams or broadcasts content, such as radio station data, to the user and the radio station app in one embodiment.
  • the broadcast system 106 A may include one or more computing resources, such as a server computers, blade servers, cloud computing resources, etc. and may further include a store for the content 502 to be broadcast (if the broadcast content is not live) and a broadcast content streaming system 504 connected to the store 502 that streams or broadcasts the content to each user through the app 102 A.
  • the broadcast content streaming system or the broadcast content store 502 may also communicate the playlist/program to the backend 106B as described above.
  • FIG. 6 illustrates more details of the personal ad system server 106B shown in FIG.
  • the personal ad system 106B may include one or more computing resources, such as a server computers, blade servers, cloud computing resources, etc. and may further include an interest parser 602 that receives an indication of interest for a particular piece of content from a user listening to the broadcast using the app/PWA when the end point destination for the particular piece of content is active and, using timestamping and a broadcast store 504 in one embodiment, determines, for each user, the end point destination identified by the user in each broadcast signal, such as a radio signal.
  • the system 106B may have an end point destination manager 606 that receives the determined interest for each user and, using an end point destination store 608, selects the one or more end point destinations that may be returned to the user.
  • each broadcast station may have its own set of offers that may be selected.
  • FIG. 7 illustrates an example of a user interface for the application.
  • the application or PWA may display the user interface shown in FIG. 7 during the live broadcast of the radio station.
  • the user may indicate/express an interest in a discrete piece of content being broadcast by the radio station by tapping on a user interface element 702 such as the one shown.
  • the result of tapping the user interface element is the delivery of the end point destination of the particular piece of content as described above.
  • tapping on the same user interface element results in the end point destination for the different discrete piece of content being communicated to the application.
  • the broadcast system and method may be used for various different types of content that may each have an end point destination associated with the piece of content.
  • the piece of content may be a product placement in a radio show in which the end point destination allows the user to tap/select for further information or to buy the product.
  • the piece of content may also be advertising/clickable advertising in which the end point destination allows the user to tap/select for further information or to buy the product.
  • the end point destination allows the user to tap/click/select to learn more about the song or artist, go to artist's page/Spotify channel/YouTube/Vevo/T-Series/merchandise/tour tickets/social media channels etc.
  • the end point destination may allow the user to click/tap/select when listening to commentary to view trailer, book cinema tickets etc.
  • the broadcast content is commentary, such as sports talk
  • the end point destination allows the user to select/tap/click to receive further information about the team/player/tournament mentioned in the commentary.
  • the end point destination allows the user to select/tap/click to read local/national news, watch local/national news channel.
  • the end point destination may take a person to an evacuation route for the particular user based on the location of the user.
  • the end point destination allows the user to tap/click/select for further information, access educational/political/scientific information about the podcast subject and idea mentioned in the podcast.
  • the end point destination allows the user to tap/click/select for further information, access further information/download documents to the computing device about the public information being broadcast.
  • the end point destination allows the user to tap/click/select to watch behind the scenes footage, tap to learn more about individual/group/team, etc.
  • the end point destination allows the user to tap/click to buy, tap to view further information, tap to contact about the sponsor.
  • the end point destination allows the user to tap/click to signup/enter/win the competition/giveaway.
  • the end point destination allows the user to tap/click to hear an advertisement in Hindi, tap to translate into any particular language (known via user's handset).
  • the end point destination allows the user to tap/click to record question/phone in and thus upload a comment/question for inclusion in the live program.
  • the end point destination may also allow the user to tap to review— eg. upload comment/media file/content for curation or tap to comment on social media— go straight to relevant page on social media channel.
  • the end point destination may also allow the user, for gambling content, to tap to place a bet or see odds for a bet.
  • the system and method sync the play list of a commercial broadcast station such that each advert/article/discussion/promotion/sponsor message, etc are known to the back end 106B and can be interacted with by the user using the end point destinations.
  • the app/PWA may be integrated through the 'Apple Car Play' or 'Android Auto' controls of the major Car Manufacturers.
  • the system can create a 'buy now' button of the (for example) Audi button in the Car Play/ Auto screen of the car so that, when a listener likes an advert, the audi button can be pressed and the special offer/information is sent directly to the user's phone in a single click.
  • a further embodiment of this is via a Bluetooth connection rather than Car Play/ Auto.
  • a key aspect for Advertisers/Broadcasters here is that the same back end interface will control scanning an image or video, screen shooting an image or video, applying a visual 'buy now' button to a video and timestamping from radio. So any brand visual or audio can now be shoppable in anonymity, should the user so desire, without being 'pushed' by the brand, Broadcaster or Publisher.
  • the station distributes a playlist (examples of which are shown in FIGS. 2A-2C) that is used to identify the piece of content (actual content or an advertisement) being currently broadcast so that the user can express an interest in the piece of content.
  • a playlist (examples of which are shown in FIGS. 2A-2C) that is used to identify the piece of content (actual content or an advertisement) being currently broadcast so that the user can express an interest in the piece of content.
  • This above described embodiment can be used with a digital or analog radio or television over the air broadcast system.
  • the system may be used with an IP based digital data stream system, such as a digital television system that has a plurality of set-top boxes with each set top box having a unique IP address assigned to a particular user.
  • the system has profile information about each user.
  • a user requests a particular piece of digital content, such as a TV show, music, etc. and the backend of the IP based digital data stream system, using the known profile information for the user, may select one or more advertisements (personalized to the user) to insert into the data stream being sent to the set top box of the user.
  • the data stream sent to each set top box of each user includes timestamps for the content and advertisements that, like the playlist in the embodiment above, permits the digital marketing system to determine the content (TV show or ad) that is being played when the user expressed their interest even for time-shifted content.
  • the above user requested piece of content is one example of the time-shifted content.
  • a user can request additional information that might have been collected since the original broadcast of the show on a timestamp basis, including but not limited to how many votes in the show to that point in time, access to viewer comments, reviews, new offers since broadcast, stock levels, new prices, loyalty rewards, celebrity content etc.
  • PWA Bar's unique IP address
  • PWA or App
  • PWA can be linked to patrons to get unique offers from that individual bar for discounted food and beverages.
  • These can be 'sponsored' by say, Budweiser which will create a 'replay' event that can be marketed by the Bar, thus creating both new advertising and sponsorship opportunities.
  • the above may be used sporting contests of any form, but it is not limited to that and can apply to music events, fashion, General Entertainment Content, etc.
  • IP based personalized Broadcast can be localized, meaning an identified group of IP addressed viewers can receive the same ad.
  • the PWA/ App powered by the system also has the ability to further customize/personalize the landing page each viewer receives when they tap based on each individual's known parameters shared with the Broadcaster.
  • a further embodiment is Podcasting. Because things can change in the time between the original broadcast and the time a podcast is listened to, the system can provide a companion to the podcast, giving listeners other content that might be of interest at a point in time.
  • FIG. 8 illustrates another embodiment of the digital marketing system 800 for a digital IP based system that links the content from the digital IP based broadcast system to the digital world (and digital marketing) through a PWA or application 802A on a computing device 802 like the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 A.
  • the system 800 may have the one or more computing devices 802 (that are the same as the one or more computing devices and operate in the same manner and have the same application 802A used to expressed an interest in a piece of content.
  • the app 802A executed by the computing device 802 may be associated with a digital data stream system that may include, for example, a television 808A and a set-top box 808B.
  • the set-top box 808B and/or each computing device 802 may connect to and communicate over a communication path 804 with one or more backend systems 806 in order to provide digital marketing so that a user of the computing device 802 may consume a piece of content (commercial, advertorial, public service announcement, news-story, TV show, etc.) and the user may indicate an interest in the piece of content.
  • the system may communicate, back to the computing device 802, an end point destination that is associated with the piece of content, such as one or more personalized detail s/offers or other information.
  • each user of each computing device 802 may consume a piece of content selected by each user and the personalized ads for the user and receive the end point destination related to the piece of content of interest to each user.
  • the communication path 804 is similar to the communication path 104 described above and will not be described further for this embodiment.
  • Each computing device 802 has the same elements and operate in the same manner (including the application) as the each computing device 102 described above and will not be further descried here.
  • One difference is that the application 802A interacts and is paired with the set-top box 808B.
  • Each set-top box 808B may receive an IP data stream from the backend 806 that has content chosen by each user and one or more advertisements selected by the backend 806 (that together are the pieces of content with which the user may indicate an interest) based on a profile on the user.
  • the IP data stream provided to each set-top box 808B may include timestamps for when the content starts/stops and when each customized advertisement starts/stops (start and stop times) that may be passed onto the application 802A in each computing device 802.
  • start and stop times may be passed onto the application 802A in each computing device 802.
  • the backend 806 may include one or more computing resources, such as a server computers, blade servers, cloud computing resources, etc.
  • the backend systems 806 may include, one or more broadcast system servers 806A that deliver a IP digital data stream to each computing device 802 and more specifically to an app 802A.
  • Each system server 806A may be owned by a third party and the system can provide its service to a plurality of systems 806A.
  • each system 806A may further include a system that selects and inserts one or more advertisements or content into the IP digital data stream based on the content requested by the user, a profile of each user and/or other information about each user wherein the inserted one or more advertisements or content are communicated to the set-top box 808B of each user.
  • each user in this embodiment may receive one or more advertisements or content that are targeted for the user so that each set-top box 808B may receive its own IP digital data stream with its own timestamps since the one or more advertisements or content may be different for each user or have different start/ stop times.
  • the backend system 806 may further include a personal ad system server 806B (similar to the personal ad system server 106B described above) that: 1) receives the interest indication from each user of each computing device for a piece of content; 2) selects the end point destination (such as customized offers) for each user based on the interest indication; 3) delivers the end point destination to the user; and 4) permits the user to access the end point destination as described below.
  • the further information resulting from the end point destination, such as one or more customized offers may be displayed to the user on the app 802A or via a dynamic web page such as using a PWA.
  • FIG. 9 illustrates a digital marketing method 900 for use with an IP based digital system that may be implemented using the system 800 in FIG. 8, but may also be implemented in other manners.
  • the IP based digital data stream system allow a user to select content to be consumed (902) thus allowing the user to consume on-demand content.
  • the IP based digital data stream system since it knows the user and a profile based on the set-top box assigned to the user, can select other content and advertisements customized to the user using the data about the user and the profile.
  • the backend system of the IP based digital system may then send the requested content and the personalized content and/or ads to the set-top box of the user (904).
  • the digital data stream sent to the set-top box may include start and stop timestamps for the start and end time of the requested content and the customized pieces of content including the ads. Since the data stream communicated to each user may be unique, there is no station playlist that a station can distribute since each user has a potentially unique playlist with the start and stop timestamps. An example of this is shown in FIGS. 10A and 10B that show two different data streams to different user that have different timestamps (t2 start time and t3 end time for a second ad in FIG. 10A as compared to t2.2 start time and t3.4 end time for the second ad in FIG. 10B) for the different pieces of contents to which the user can express an interest as described above.
  • the user When the user is consuming the content, the user (with the app— which may be paired to the set-top box or boxes in the household) can indicate an interest in the content or ads or additional content (each a piece of consumed content) (906) in a similar manner as described above.
  • the app/set-top box uses the timestamps in the data stream to identify the piece of content in which the user has expressed an interest.
  • the expressed interest and the determined consumed piece of content may be communicated to the backend system that may provide the end point destination (908) to the user as described above and the user can interact with the data associated with the end point destination (910) as described above.
  • the piece of content being consumed for which the user expresses interest is determined differently than the other embodiment (since no station playlist exists), but the rest of the process is similar to the method of the first embodiment.
  • system and method disclosed herein may be implemented via one or more components, systems, servers, appliances, other subcomponents, or distributed between such elements.
  • systems may include and/or involve, inter alia, components such as software modules, general-purpose CPU, RAM, etc. found in general-purpose computers,.
  • a server may include or involve components such as CPU, RAM, etc., such as those found in general-purpose computers.
  • system and method herein may be achieved via implementations with disparate or entirely different software, hardware and/or firmware components, beyond that set forth above.
  • components e.g., software, processing components, etc.
  • computer-readable media associated with or embodying the present inventions
  • aspects of the innovations herein may be implemented consistent with numerous general purpose or special purpose computing systems or configurations.
  • exemplary computing systems, environments, and/or configurations may include, but are not limited to: software or other components within or embodied on personal computers, servers or server computing devices such as routing/connectivity components, hand-held or laptop devices, multiprocessor systems, microprocessor-based systems, set top boxes, consumer electronic devices, network PCs, other existing computer platforms, distributed computing environments that include one or more of the above systems or devices, etc.
  • aspects of the system and method may be achieved via or performed by logic and/or logic instructions including program modules, executed in association with such components or circuitry, for example.
  • program modules may include routines, programs, objects, components, data structures, etc. that perform particular tasks or implement particular instructions herein.
  • the inventions may also be practiced in the context of distributed software, computer, or circuit settings where circuitry is connected via communication buses, circuitry or links. In distributed settings, control/instructions may occur from both local and remote computer storage media including memory storage devices.
  • Computer readable media can be any available media that is resident on, associable with, or can be accessed by such circuits and/or computing components.
  • Computer readable media may comprise computer storage media and communication media.
  • Computer storage media includes volatile and nonvolatile, removable and non-removable media implemented in any method or technology for storage of information such as computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data.
  • Computer storage media includes, but is not limited to,
  • Communication media may comprise computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules and/or other components. Further, communication media may include wired media such as a wired network or direct-wired connection, however no media of any such type herein includes transitory media. Combinations of the any of the above are also included within the scope of computer readable media.
  • the terms component, module, device, etc. may refer to any type of logical or functional software elements, circuits, blocks and/or processes that may be implemented in a variety of ways.
  • the functions of various circuits and/or blocks can be combined with one another into any other number of modules.
  • Each module may even be implemented as a software program stored on a tangible memory (e.g., random access memory, read only memory, CD-ROM memory, hard disk drive, etc.) to be read by a central processing unit to implement the functions of the innovations herein.
  • the modules can comprise programming instructions transmitted to a general-purpose computer or to processing/graphics hardware via a transmission carrier wave.
  • the modules can be implemented as hardware logic circuitry implementing the functions encompassed by the innovations herein.
  • the modules can be implemented using special purpose instructions (SIMD instructions), field programmable logic arrays or any mix thereof which provides the desired level performance and cost.
  • SIMD instructions special purpose instructions
  • features consistent with the disclosure may be implemented via computer-hardware, software, and/or firmware.
  • the systems and methods disclosed herein may be embodied in various forms including, for example, a data processor, such as a computer that also includes a database, digital electronic circuitry, firmware, software, or in combinations of them.
  • a data processor such as a computer that also includes a database
  • digital electronic circuitry such as a computer
  • firmware such as a firmware
  • software such as a computer that also includes a database
  • digital electronic circuitry such as a computer that also includes a database
  • firmware firmware
  • software software
  • the above-noted features and other aspects and principles of the innovations herein may be implemented in various environments.
  • Such environments and related applications may be specially constructed for performing the various routines, processes and/or operations according to the invention or they may include a general-purpose computer or computing platform selectively activated or reconfigured by code to provide the necessary functionality.
  • the processes disclosed herein are not inherently related to any particular computer, network, architecture, environment, or other apparatus, and may be implemented by a suitable combination of hardware, software, and/or firmware.
  • various general-purpose machines may be used with programs written in accordance with teachings of the invention, or it may be more convenient to construct a specialized apparatus or system to perform the required methods and techniques.
  • aspects of the method and system described herein, such as the logic may also be implemented as functionality programmed into any of a variety of circuitry, including programmable logic devices ("PLDs”), such as field programmable gate arrays (“FPGAs”), programmable array logic (“PAL”) devices, electrically programmable logic and memory devices and standard cell-based devices, as well as application specific integrated circuits.
  • PLDs programmable logic devices
  • FPGAs field programmable gate arrays
  • PAL programmable array logic
  • electrically programmable logic and memory devices and standard cell-based devices as well as application specific integrated circuits.
  • Some other possibilities for implementing aspects include: memory devices, microcontrollers with memory (such as EEPROM), embedded microprocessors, firmware, software, etc.
  • aspects may be embodied in microprocessors having software-based circuit emulation, discrete logic (sequential and combinatorial), custom devices, fuzzy (neural) logic, quantum devices, and hybrids of any of the above device types.
  • the underlying device technologies may be provided in a variety of component types, e.g., metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (“MOSFET”) technologies like complementary metal- oxide semiconductor (“CMOS”), bipolar technologies like emitter-coupled logic (“ECL”), polymer technologies (e.g., silicon-conjugated polymer and metal-conjugated polymer-metal structures), mixed analog and digital, and so on.
  • MOSFET metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor
  • CMOS complementary metal- oxide semiconductor
  • ECL emitter-coupled logic
  • polymer technologies e.g., silicon-conjugated polymer and metal-conjugated polymer-metal structures
  • mixed analog and digital and so on.

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La présente invention concerne un système et un procédé de commercialisation numérique sur un système de flux de données numériques IP, qui permettent de fournir un contenu à un utilisateur. Le système peut utiliser une application (qui peut être une PWA) pour permettre à l'utilisateur d'indiquer un intérêt pour un élément de contenu ou une publicité, et de recevoir un contenu supplémentaire.
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