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Systems and methods for linking television viewers with advertisers and broadcasters

a technology of television viewers and advertisers, applied in the field of system and method of providing information to television viewers, can solve the problems of difficult to motivate viewers to request information or send in contributions, and difficult to provide this type of information in present television schedule guides, etc., and achieve the effect of losing the motivation to spend money

Inactive Publication Date: 2010-09-16
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Benefits of technology

The present invention provides systems and methods for displaying television schedule information on a visual interface and allowing viewers to access, search, select, and interact with information located in a remote database, computer network, or on-line service. The viewer can navigate and interact with a program guide that is displayed on the television screen, and can obtain more information about programs of particular interest. The invention also allows viewers to directly link with broadcasters and advertisers during the broadcast or internet broadcast of a commercial or program, and to access commercial databases and purchase goods and services directly through the commercial sponsor. This type of advertising helps viewers remember the advertisement and encourages them to spend money or request information and related products after the commercial or program is over.

Problems solved by technology

Offering this type of information to the television viewer can be difficult, however, because their are hundreds of different programs broadcast every day.
In addition, the available information changes at a rapid pace, which makes it even more difficult to provide this information in present television schedule guides.
One problem with this existing system is that it is often difficult to motivate a viewer to request information or send in a contribution after the broadcast of the commercial or program.
Viewers will often forget the advertisement or simply lose motivation to spend money or request information after the commercial or program is over.
Another problem is that companies sponsoring these commercials or programs would often like to provide their viewers with further information, if the viewers could be identified or if the viewer requests the additional information.

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[0029]The present invention provides systems and methods for providing television schedule and / or listing information to a viewer, and for allowing the viewer to link, search, select, retrieve, initiate a subscription to and interact with information in a remote database, computer network or on-line server, e.g., a network server on the Internet or World Wide Web. The television schedule and / or listing information can be displayed on a variety of viewer interfaces, such as televisions screens, computer monitors, PCTV screens and other interactive display devices. The television schedule and / or listing information may be stored on the viewer's computer, television, PCTV, or a remote server (e.g., a website), or the television schedule and / or listing information may be downloaded from a remote database or computer network and / or internet broadcast to the viewer's computer, television or PCTV. Suitable television schedule and / or listing information systems or video guides that can be u...

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Abstract

The present invention provides systems and methods for providing television schedule information to a viewer, and for allowing the viewer to link, search, select and interact with information in a remote database, e.g., a database on the internet. The television schedule information can be displayed on a variety of viewer interfaces, such as televisions screens, computer monitors, PCTV screens and the like. The television schedule information may be stored on the viewer's computer, television, PCTV, or a remote server (e.g., a website), or the television schedule information may be downloaded from a remote database to the viewer's computer, television or PCTV.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION[0001]This application is a continuation-in-part of Provisional Patent Application Ser. Nos. 60 / 022,826, filed on Jul. 26, 1996, and 60 / 015,648, filed on Apr. 19, 1996, and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08 / 537,650, filed on Oct. 2, 1995, the complete disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference. This application is also related to U.S. patent application Ser. No. unassigned, filed Apr. 11, 1997 (Attorney Docket No. 14774-004410), and its Appendices A, B, and C, the complete disclosure which is also incorporated herein by reference.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]The present invention generally relates to systems and methods for providing information to television viewers, and more particularly to systems and methods for allowing the viewer to retrieve, search, select and interact with television schedule information located in a remote database, computer network or on-line service, e.g., a network server on the Internet or World...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): H04N5/445H04N5/45H04N5/775H04N5/782H04N7/08H04N7/088H04N7/16
CPCH04N5/44543H04N21/47202H04N5/775H04N5/782H04N7/08H04N7/0884H04N7/165H04N21/25891H04N21/4113H04N21/4143H04N21/42204H04N21/4316H04N21/4334H04N21/4345H04N21/44222H04N21/4622H04N21/47H04N21/47214H04N21/4753H04N21/4758H04N21/47815H04N21/4782H04N21/812H04N21/84H04N5/45H04N21/44224H04N21/2393H04N21/25875H04N21/4722H04N21/4828H04N21/6125H04N21/6175H04N21/64322
Inventor SCHEIN, STEVEN M.O'BRIEN, SEAN A.LEFTWICH, JAMES JAYBROUGHTON, SUSAN
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