Technologies for adaptively embedding visual advertising content into media content
include a computing device for receiving visual advertisements, an advertisement map, and …

BACKGROUND Content developers, producers, publishers, distributors and the like seek to
generate revenue from contentitems. Revenue can be generated by charging for …

A method for placing advertisements selects a first content from a variety of content,
analyzes the first content for the presence of advertiser references, and matches a first adver …

Video segments such as advertisements with selected replace US PATENT DOCUMENTS
ment advertisements. Fingerprint data of known advertise 4.888, 638 A 12, 1989 Bohn …

0004 2. Background Art 0005. In present content distribution systems, advertise ments are
permanently, directly attached to the content with which they are distributed, on the same …

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SUMMARY 0006 A video distribution method modifies video to incorporate a tag that (1)
associates the video with an advertisement and (2) facilitates payment of a share of …

(57) ABSTRACT A gateway (eg, a web site) connects content (eg, pirated content) playing
on a host device to a variety of informational, advertising, merchandising and DRM …

BACKGROUND 0001. The Internet has become an accepted medium for delivery of all kinds
of streaming media including video. Typically, such media assets in the form of video files …

Methods and systems are provided that can include iconiza tion and later play of video
content items, such as advertise ments. During presentation of an online video, video adver …