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Method and System for automated auditing of advertising

US7627878B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateDec 20, 2006
Grant dateDec 1, 2009
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Expiry dateSep 10, 2027

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04H60/27
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The timing and placement of advertising on TV, radio or other broadcast media can be automatically verified or audited by monitoring and recording channels of TV, radio or broadcast media by storing and tagging discrete portions of segments of the broadcast signals in a database. A controller, or “dispatcher” server, dispatches the files to an analysis server for performing various mathematical comparisons and statistical correlations on the audio and video signals for positively identifying one or more advertisements of interest. A report is generated, providing particulars about the airing times of the advertisement of interest and whether its content exactly matches the content of a reference advertisement used as the basis for the mathematical comparisons and correlations.

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