Patent ID: 8826328

Claim:
A method of replacing a primary advertisement contained in a primary video stream, the method comprising: providing a transmission that includes the primary video stream to at least one remote unit; receiving a plurality of tertiary video streams that each contain a different secondary advertisement; using a processor, generating a secondary video stream that has a picture area in which different portions of the picture area contain different secondary advertisements, each of the different secondary advertisements being received in a different tertiary video stream among the received plurality of tertiary video streams; communicating a command to the at least one remote unit, the communicated command configuring the at least one remote unit to crop a portion of the picture area of the secondary video stream and display only the cropped portion of the picture area on a display device; and after communicating the command, replacing the primary video stream with the secondary video stream in the transmission being provided to the at least one remote unit, the secondary video stream and the communicated command together causing the at least one remote unit to crop a secondary advertisement contained in the portion of the picture area of the secondary video stream and display only the cropped advertisement scaled to entirely use a display area on the display device in lieu of the primary advertisement contained in the primary video stream.