Patents
US 8706544 B1: Method and system for automatically measuring and forecasting the demographic characterization of customers to help customize programming contents in a media network
- Granted
- 2014-04-22
- Filed
- 2007-05-23 application 11805321
- Type
- Utility · 28 claims
- Elsewhere
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Abstract
The present invention is a method and system for forecasting the demographic characterization of customers to help customize programming contents on each means for playing output of each site of a plurality of sites in a media network through automatically measuring, characterizing, and estimating the demographic information of customers that appear in the vicinity of each means for playing output. The analysis of demographic information of customers is performed automatically based on the visual information of the customers, using a plurality of means for capturing images and a plurality of computer vision technologies on the visual information. The measurement of the demographic information is performed in each measured node, where the node is defined as means for playing output. Extrapolation of the measurement characterizes the demographic information per each node of a plurality of nodes in a site of a plurality of sites of a media network. The forecasting and customization of the programming contents is based on the characterization of the demographic information.
Source: PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 (ipg140422.xml).
Assignees
| Assignee | Type | Place | Also on furp.org | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VideoMining Corporation 54 patents | US company or organization | State College, PA | Videomining Corporation State business registration EXACT high confidence: identical full name and state VIDEOMINING CORP Form D issuer FUZZY medium confidence: same name (legal endings aside) and state | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
Inventors
| Inventor | Place | Patents | Person page | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rajeev Sharma | State College, PA | 83 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 | |
| Satish Mummareddy | State College, PA | 17 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 | |
| Jeff Hershey | Norfolk, VA | 12 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 | |
| Hankyu Moon | State College, PA | 38 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
CPC categories
| Subclass | Category | First group | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| G06Q | Information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial or supervisory purposes; systems or methods specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial or supervisory purposes, not otherwise provided for | G06Q30/0202 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
Cooperative Patent Classification, as currently assigned (one row per subclass).
Assignments and security interests
| Recorded | What | From | To | Reel/frame | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-10-13 | Assignment Nunc pro tunc assignment | AVIGILON PATENT HOLDING 1 CORPORATION signed 2022-04-11 | MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC. CHICAGO, IL | 62034/176 | ECORSEXC, file of 2026-09-25 |
| 2018-08-21 | Release of security interest Release of security interest | HSBC BANK CANADA signed 2018-08-13 | AVIGILON PATENT HOLDING 1 CORPORATION VANCOUVER | 46895/803 | ECORSEXC, file of 2026-09-25 |
| 2016-12-12 | Name change Change of name | 9051147 CANADA INC. signed 2015-11-20 | AVIGILON PATENT HOLDING 1 CORPORATION VANCOUVER | 40886/579 | ECORSEXC, file of 2026-09-25 |
| 2015-04-08 | Security interest Security interest Security interest | CANADA INC. signed 2015-04-07 | HSBC BANK CANADA VANCOUVER | 35387/176 | ECORSEXC, file of 2026-09-25 |
| 2015-02-04 | Assignment Assignment of assignor's interest | VIDEOMINING CORPORATION signed 2015-01-16 | 9051147 CANADA INC. VANCOUVER | 34881/547 | ECORSEXC, file of 2026-09-25 |
| 2008-06-06 | Assignment Assignment of assignor's interest | HERSHEY, JEFF signed 2007-09-11 SHARMA, RAJEEV signed 2007-12-27 MOON, HANKYU signed 2008-04-16 MUMMAREDDY, SATISH signed 2008-05-05 | VIDEOMINING CORPORATION STATE COLLEGE, PA | 21067/838 | ECORSEXC, file of 2026-09-25 |
Documents recorded with the USPTO Assignment Recordation Branch that list this patent. A security interest is a lender’s claim on the patent as collateral; a release ends it.
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