Patent ID: 7945474
Filing Date: 2011-05-17
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: recording, by an off air recorder device that monitors and records audio streams from broadcasters on behalf of an advertising intermediary system to determine whether an ad was actually played by a selected broadcaster in a specified market, a local time when the ad was actually played by the selected broadcaster, the local time being expressed as a time and time zone information associated with the selected broadcaster; generating, by a billing module associated with the advertising intermediary system, a station local time for the played ad by removing the time zone information from the recorded local time; and generating, by the billing module associated with the advertising intermediary system, a billing event for an advertiser located in a different time zone from the selected broadcaster, wherein the billing event specifies the station local time in which the ad was actually played by the selected broadcaster, without specifying the time zone information.