PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15951512
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["725", "064000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments are related to faster provisioning of targeted advertisements at a set-top box (STB) via an Internet Protocol (IP) connection between the STB and a remote server. The disclosed IP-based advertisement distribution system enables targeted advertisements to be pulled from the remote server efficiently, causing the advertisements to be made available within a short time frame (e.g., less than one day from the time when the advertisements are available). The disclosed methods enables a STB to determine whether to retain existing targeted advertisements, discard them, or provision newly-available advertisements. The targeted advertisements can depend on various factors such as demographic information of an owner of the STB, lifestyle information of the owner of the STB, etc.

Claim (Index 16):
A set-top box (STB) apparatus for facilitating faster provisioning of targeted advertisements at a set-top box (STB) via an Internet Protocol (IP) connection between the STB and a remote server, wherein the STB is configured to have a satellite connection, comprising:\n a memory; one or more processors electronically coupled to the memory and configured for: monitoring an announcement stream on the satellite connection, wherein the announcement stream is a broadcast announcing a list of available advertisement packages, wherein each advertisement package is a bundled collection of an advertisement delivery request (ADR) file and advertisement media files applicable for playing at the STB; based on monitoring the announcement stream, updating a lookup table locally stored at the STB with information identifying the list of the available advertisement packages for potential acquisition by the STB; providing an ID of each advertisement package listed in the lookup table to the remote server; receiving an ADR file corresponding to the ID of each advertisement package listed in the lookup table, wherein the ADR file includes identifiers (ADR IDs) of advertisement media files and metadata associated with each ADR ID; for each advertisement package listed in the lookup table and for each ADR ID in the ADR file of the advertisement package, correlating targeted advertisement data with the metadata associated with the ADR ID to determine ADR IDs of relevant advertisement media files that are pertinent to the STB; comparing (i) the ADR IDs of relevant advertisement media files that are pertinent to the STB with (ii) previously-stored advertisement media files in the STB to identify one or more missing ADR IDs, wherein the one or more missing ADR IDs correspond to advertisement media files that are not stored in the STB; and requesting advertisement media files corresponding to the one or more missing ADR IDs from the remote server for storage at the STB.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.76
- Patent Class: 725.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11680443', '14577204', '11190248', '11475354', '09748942']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4563273902749597
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4864055768029922
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.459335208927763
- Mean Citation Score: 191.400964
- Max Citation Score: 208.47015
- Similarity Product: 149.60839113371372

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test