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WO1997009708A1 - Annonces publicitaires dans des oeuvres numeriques - Google Patents

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WO1997009708A1
WO1997009708A1 PCT/US1996/014263 US9614263W WO9709708A1 WO 1997009708 A1 WO1997009708 A1 WO 1997009708A1 US 9614263 W US9614263 W US 9614263W WO 9709708 A1 WO9709708 A1 WO 9709708A1
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Sundar V. Subramaniam
John D. Donovan, Jr.
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/20—Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/27—Server based end-user applications
    • H04N21/274—Storing end-user multimedia data in response to end-user request, e.g. network recorder
    • H04N21/2743—Video hosting of uploaded data from client
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    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06Q—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • G06Q30/00—Commerce
    • G06Q30/02—Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

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  • digital works includes any digital information that is created, stored, transmitted, received, retrieved, or used, whether on tangible media such as magnetic disks or tapes, compact disks (CD's) , or ROM, or through communication by wire or optical fiber, or wirelessly.
  • the digital information may be an executable program, such as a word processing application or a football game, or non-executable information such as sounds, images, video frames, or text.
  • Advertisers have used digital works for advertising products and services. For example, an automobile company distributed diskettes containing a program and information (including car pictures) that allowed a user to explore different cars sold by the company. Software companies sometimes include, in their software packages, advertising about other products available from them.
  • the invention features including, in a digital work, a call that identifies an associated digital advertising segment, the call being expressed in accordance with a predefined protocol, providing the digital advertising segment in a format that can be located in response to the call, and during a use of the digital work, effecting the call by locating the associated digital advertising segment.
  • Implementations of the invention may include one or more of the following features.
  • a call may also be included in another digital work.
  • the other call may identify an associated digital advertising segment and may be expressed in accordance with the same predefined protocol.
  • the two digital advertising segments associated with the two calls may be the same.
  • the first digital work may include another call that identifies another associated digital advertising segment, the call being expressed in accordance with the predefined protocol. After the digital advertising segment is located, it may be exhibited to a user.
  • a generic digital segment may be provided in a format that permits it to be fetched in response to the call.
  • the call may be effected by locating the generic digital segment.
  • the digital advertising segment may incorporated as part of the digital work, and copies of the digital work may then be distributed.
  • the advertising segment may include an image of a product as an integral part of an audio or visual impression exposed to a user of the digital work.
  • the audio or visual impression may include an image or video sequence having visually related elements and the digital advertising segment may be one of the elements.
  • the audio or visual impression may include a sequence of audio elements.
  • the digital work may include an interactive audio-visual work, such as a game.
  • the invention features creating a preliminary version of a digital work that includes a hole for inclusion of an advertising segment as an integrated element of an audio or visual portion of the digital work.
  • the preliminary version is provided to a source of advertising segments to permit review of the preliminary version.
  • An advertising segment to be included in the digital work is received from the source of advertising segments. While a user is using the digital work, the advertising segment is automatically included as an integrated element in the proposed place.
  • Advantages of the invention may include one or more of the following.
  • the invention provides a common medium for exchange of (and thus a market for) advertisements between advertisers and developers of games or other software.
  • the developer may develop a game with what are essentially advertising "holes" to be filled by willing advertisers.
  • the advertisers can review the proposed games and see the nature and environment of the holes to be filled. They can then decide whether or not to place advertisements in the holes and, if so, when, where, and under what other circumstances the advertisements will be experienced by the user of the software. Delivery of the advertisement for inclusion in the software is made simpler because a standard format is defined that can be used by a range of advertisers who deal with a range of developers.
  • Software developers have the opportunity to generate additional revenue from advertising place in their products.
  • Figure 1 is a screen display.
  • Figure 2 is a diagram of a database.
  • Figure 3 is a schematic block diagram of the operation of a database manager.
  • Figure 4 is a schematic flow diagram.
  • FIGS 5 and 6 are flow diagrams.
  • a developer of, e.g., a multimedia computer game in which the user navigates a town using a car 10 may include, in screen displays, images of retail stores 12 and a pedestrian 14.
  • the developer may include a variety of advertising "holes" where advertisers could add their advertising.
  • the car itself could represent a hole in the sense that a car maker could be solicited to have the car image be an image of one of its products.
  • the shoes 16 worn by the pedestrian could represent another advertising hole.
  • the names of the stores could also be holes. These would be of a different kind from the car and the shoes in that those holes would simply be names, rather than the products of the stores.
  • the store fronts 20 could also be holes to be filled with images that suit the nature of the stores.
  • An advertising hole could also be in the form of a sound sequence or a video sequence to be experienced by the user. These holes could be indicated to the advertiser in an analogous way to the images of Figure 1. For example, a sentence spoken by pedestrian 14 could include a hole as follows: "Gee, look at that sporty FRAZBEDINE car over there in front of the WHIMMIDIDDLE store.” "FRAZBEDINE” and "WHIMMIDIDDLE” would represent the holes.
  • At least some of the holes are for advertising segments that represent elements that are integrated parts of the scene; that is, they are not separate standalone advertisements that might appear in a box somewhere on the screen.
  • the shoes are an integrated part of the pedestrian, and the car is an integrated part of the street scene.
  • the advertisements may be subliminal in the sense that the car or shoes may appear as normal parts of a real-world scene, without any accompanying advertising copy. That is, the product itself is the advertisement.
  • the advertising holes would be represented by generic versions of the advertising to be included.
  • the car would be a generic image of a car
  • the shoes would be generic shoes
  • the signs on the store fronts would be generic signs.
  • the generic image would not simply be a white blank space in the image of the pedestrian, but would be an actual shoe bearing no particular trade dress or trademark.
  • One advantage of providing generic images rather than blank spaces is that the developer can create a complete, marketable game without knowing for certain whether each hole will be filled by actual advertising. Even if a hole is not filled, the game can be marketed as developed, without more work by the developer on the holes.
  • the generic images could be created by the developer. But a possibly better approach would be to have a third party, perhaps an advertising agency, serve as an intermediary.
  • the intermediary could provide developers with a set of generic digital images (or sounds or video clips) of advertising holes that the intermediary believes would be salable to potential advertisers. Once the developer had created the game with the generic advertising holes, the initial version would be provided to potential advertisers, either directly or through the intermediary. Unlike many advertising situations, the advertiser could then see exactly the context in which the advertising would appear and make a good judgment on whether to place advertisements in the holes, as well as the geographic location and timing of the advertising.
  • An advertiser that chose to place advertisements in the holes in such a product would then enter into an appropriate agreement with the developer, and would provide digital versions of the advertising segments to be used to replace the generic holes (for example an image of an actual car or a shoe) .
  • the developer would incorporate the segments into the product and distribute it to end users.
  • the game would forever exhibit the same advertising segments in the same holes.
  • the advertiser could specify periods of time during which and the geographic locations in which the advertisements would be exhibited.
  • the game used in the northeast United States could fill a car hole on weekdays with one car of one manufacturer, and on weekends with a different car of a different manufacturer.
  • the advertising schedule could be varied in accordance with virtually any variable which the digital work is capable of detecting at the time it is being run on the computer, such as the system time, the hardware complement of the computer system, or even the number of times a user takes a certain action during use of the game. For example, if the user repeatedly navigates the car of Figure l past a certain street intersection in the game, then the sign on one of the stores could be filled with one advertiser 1 s marquee, otherwise with another.
  • the formats for the software calls to the generic holes, and the generic holes and the advertising segments to fill them would be satisfy a common protocol.
  • an advertiser or intermediary could create advertising segments in a single format and be able to distribute them easily to a variety of developers.
  • Developers would be able to write games or other digital works with common calls, knowing that they will be sufficient to cause incorporation into the program, as it is being used, of the advertising segments needed. The developer is then free to fully develop the game without needing to sell advertising and incorporate it by hard coding during the course of the development work.
  • the advertising segments may be included as part of the distribution medium, such as a CD-ROM.
  • the advertising segments delivered to user separately from the medium, e.g., by downloading them electronically from a central location to the user.
  • the game may be itself be distributed to the user electronically and in that case, the advertising segments could also be downloaded, either in a batch mode, or conceivably in real time, as needed.
  • the distribution version of the digital work could include full files of all of the generic advertising holes and actual advertising segments, or the files could be culled to leave only those that are actually to be used in executing the digital work.
  • the advertising segment database 50 would include segments 52 and a mapping table 54.
  • Each of the segments includes a flag 56 indicating whether the segment is a real one or a generic one, a file of compressed data 58 (e.g., a wavelet compressed version of the highest resolution image to be displayed) , a format ID 60 indicating the format (e.g., .JPG) in which the segment is expressed and possibly also indicating the method by which the file had been compressed) , and a size ID 62 indicating the size of the file.
  • Each entry 64 in the mapping table includes values for the LOCATION, MASTER NO., SYSTEM DATE, SYSTEM TIME, and SYSTEM SEGMENT variables, discussed below, and an associated pointer 68 to the corresponding segment which is to be used when the variables have that combination of values.
  • the advertising segment database may exist in a variety of different versions which have different combinations of the segments, and the associated mapping table.
  • One version could be provided by an intermediary and contain a range of generic segments which could be included by a developer in any of a variety of digital works being prepared by him.
  • the generic database could be circulated to a range of developers and to a range of potential advertisers.
  • Another version of the database could include real advertising segments generated by advertisers or intermediaries for use in digital works. In one scheme the real segments could be limited to those originated by a single advertiser and which are to be included with a specific digital work.
  • the database could include the real segments of a single originating advertiser and which are to be included in digital works of several developers (for example, the database could be a "Ford Motor Company" database containing all of the segments that Ford wishes to have included in digital works at a given time. Or the database could include multiple real segments from multiple originating advertisers and be distributed to developers by an intermediary. Other versions of the database could be used by the developer. For example, the developer' s version used during development could include all of or a selection of generic segments and real segments received from a variety of sources. The digital work to be distributed would have a database that could include only the real segments and generic segments needed to execute the digital work.
  • Manager 70 would have a convenient user interface and would run on a personal computer. The functions of manager 70 would include the following:
  • the digital work includes: a SETUP call 80 in the initialization part qf the digital work instruction sequence 82; GET SEGMENT calls 84 located in the places in the digital work where advertising segments are to be performed; a SETUP routine 86 that responds to the SETUP call; a GET SEGMENT 88 routine that responds to the GET SEGMENT calls; and the segment database 90.
  • the GET SEGMENT and SETUP routines can be provided to the developers by a third party for linking to their digital works at the time the works are committed to disk or other storage medium.
  • the format of the GET SEGMENT call instruction would be:
  • SEGMENT TYPE is an identification of the nature of the segment, e.g., a value indicating that the segment is an head-on image of a shoe.
  • SIZE is the size in pixels of the segment to be returned. Its purpose is to assure that the returned segment will be suitable for display by the digital work.
  • FORMAT is the format of the segment to be returned, e.g., .JPG, .BMP. Its purpose is to assure that the returned segment is in a format suitable for use by the digital work.
  • the GET SEGMENT call is executed 102, the arguments are passed 104 to the GET SEGMENT routine 88, which is begun 106.
  • the GET SEGMENT routine then fetches 108 additional parameters, including LOCATION, SYSTEM DATE, SYSTEM TIME, MASTER NUMBER, discussed below.
  • the SYSTEM DATE and SYSTEM TIME are obtained from the operating system.
  • the LOCATION and MASTER NUMBER are fetched from memory.
  • the GET SEGMENT routine uses a combination of the SYSTEM DATE, SYSTEM TIME, LOCATION, MASTER NUMBER, and SEGMENT TYPE as indices into the mapping table of the data base to lookup 110 the pointer to the corresponding advertising segment in the database. For example, if the SYSTEM DATE is October 23, the SYSTEM TIME is 8:03 PM, the LOCATION is Northeastern United States, the MASTER NUMBER indicates this is the game called Black Dynamite, and the SEGMENT TYPE is a candy bar, the pointer may be to a top view of a Snickers candy bar.
  • LOCATION represents the geographic location to which the game has been distributed and therefore specifies the relevant advertising segment to be displayed.
  • a digital work could be distributed, for example, to six different geographic markets and six different advertisement segments could be provided for use in a given hole in the six different markets.
  • the different advertising segments could be in different languages.
  • MASTER is the identity of the digital work which is making the call. In the case where the digital work carries with it a full range of advertising segments for use with a range of different digital works, MASTER will identify the segments of the current digital work.
  • the mapping table would have entries that would set a range of system dates, such as October 1 through February 1, a range of times, such as 7:00 AM to 11:00 PM, a range of locations, such as northeastern and central United States, and a specific segment type, e.g., a candy bar.
  • the combinations of those entries would be associated with the Snickers candy bar.
  • the GET SEGMENT routine then fetches 112 the segment.
  • the GET SEGMENT routine then decompresses 114 the segment, converts 116 the format to the one defined by FORMAT, adjusts 118 the pixel size to one defined by SIZE, and returns 120 the processed segment to the digital work. This process would be repeated each time another segment is needed in the digital work.
  • the SETUP CALL 130 triggers the SETUP routine to begin 132.
  • the SETUP routine fetches the SYSTEM TIME and SYSTEM DATE from the operating system 134, and fetches 136 the MASTER NUMBER and the LOCATION from special storage locations in the database. It stores the MASTER NUMBER and LOCATION values in memory for use when the digital work runs.
  • Suppliers of advertising segments would supply them in the format of the records of the advertising segment database and would include the location, master number, and segment type information sufficient to build the entries of the mapping.
  • the definition of the GET SEGMENT call and subroutine would serve as a common protocol usable by any developer, and the format of the database and mapping table entries would serve as a common protocol for delivery of the advertising segments from any advertiser.
  • Other embodiments are within the scope of the following claims.
  • the scheme could be used with any digital work, not only a game.
  • the same advertising segment may be used in more than one digital work.

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Abstract

Une oeuvre numérique (76) fait recours à un appel qui identifie un segment d'annonce publicitaire numérique associé (74), l'appel étant exprimé en fonction d'un protocole prédéfini, fournissant le segment d'annonce publicitaire numérique (74) dans un format qui peut être localisé en réponse à l'appel, et pendant une utilisation de l'oeuvre numérique (76) effectuant l'appel en localisant le segment d'annonce publicitaire numérique associé (74). Une version préliminaire de l'oeuvre numérique peut comporter une espace vide pour l'introduction d'un segment d'annonce publicitaire (74) en tant qu'élément intégré d'une partie audio ou visuelle de l'oeuvre numérique (76). Cette version préliminaire est fournie à une source de segments d'annonce publicitaire (74), pour permettre la revisualisation de la version préliminaire. Un segment d'annonce publicitaire (74) à inclure dans l'oeuvre numérique (76) est reçu en provenance de la source de segments d'annonce publicitaire. Pendant qu'un utilisateur se sert de l'oeuvre numérique (76), le segment d'annonce publicitaire (74) est automatiquement inclus comme élément intégré à l'emplacement proposé.
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