Patent ID: 8312491

Claim:
A system for product advertising comprising: an advertising engine comprising a processor and a memory device storing processor-executable instructions configured as: an information-extraction tool for acquiring collective product information, pertinent to a set of products, from product data bases through a network; an authoring tool, distributed to a plurality of authoring computers, for: tracking product images appearing in a first display of a specific video recording received from a video source to produce a tracking record relating each product image to a respective time instant and a respective spatial position; associating product identifiers to said product images; and producing an overlay directory relating each of selected product images to respective information within said collective product information; and an augmented-display tool for tracking said product images appearing in a subsequent display of said specific video recording and displaying selected product information corresponding to a subset of said product images selected by a viewer of said subsequent display; and an information depot comprising at least one memory device storing: a global product directory containing said collective product information; a video-source directory providing network addresses of video sources providing video recordings; and a video-content directory storing overlay directories of a plurality of video recordings produced by said plurality of authoring computers using said authoring tool; wherein said advertising engine is configured to distribute said augmented-display tool to a plurality of viewing computers and each viewing computer is configured to access said video-content directory to acquire an overlay directory associated with a respective video recording.