Interactive television tracking system
CA 2456984 C · Owner: Tandberg Television, Inc. · Inventors: Barone, Samuel T. Jr.
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An interactive television system tailoring delivery of interactive content includes a request processing engine (40) accepting user interactions with an interactive television (ITV) application. A user profiling engine (42) associates the user interactions with an individual profile or profile group. The profile group defines events that may be triggered upon receipt of certain user interactions. A trigger/event engine (44) monitors in real-time, whether , the user interactions correspond to any of the defined events. If an event is to be triggered, an action engine (46) transmits an ITV command associated with the event to an encoder. The encoder performs a real-time of encoding of …
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- Filed August 16, 2002 and granted July 16, 2013. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 16, 2022.
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