Digital data monitoring and logging in an itv system
CA 2456962 C · Owner: Goldpocket Interactive, Inc. · Inventors: Barone, Samuel T. Jr.; King, John Kelley
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An ITV system that monitors and stores data (Fig. 1) related to digital video broadcasts. Such data may include digital sound files image files, subscription data, software programs television program information, ITV , advertising content and the like. The monitoring system (113) stores information about a pre-determined set of data that is being monitored in a digital video stream, in one or more log files. The log files may then be used to generate a plurality of user defined reports. The reports may be used by broadcasters, cable operators, and content providers and the like to , establish general auditing and billing services.
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- Filed August 16, 2002 and granted January 17, 2012. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 16, 2022.
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