US 12,439,126 B2
Automatically paying a recipient by presenting privately filtered content combined with a public broadcast
Timothy Joseph Erskine, Sister Bay, WI (US)
Filed by Timothy Joseph Erskine, Sister Bay, WI (US)
Filed on Sep. 16, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/571,459.
Application 16/571,459 is a continuation of application No. PCT/US2018/022646, filed on Mar. 15, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/472,118, filed on Mar. 16, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0029128 A1, Jan. 23, 2020
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04N 21/234 (2011.01); H04N 21/2343 (2011.01); H04N 21/2543 (2011.01); H04N 21/2547 (2011.01); H04N 21/258 (2011.01); H04N 21/2662 (2011.01); H04N 21/2668 (2011.01); H04N 21/431 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/475 (2011.01); H04N 21/478 (2011.01); H04N 21/4784 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01)
CPC H04N 21/4784 (2013.01) [H04N 21/25866 (2013.01); H04N 21/2668 (2013.01); H04N 21/4318 (2013.01); H04N 21/812 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of altering AV (audio and/or video) output, comprising:
providing an AV ad network that includes member accounts for content viewing members and target accounts for target persons appearing in AV content items;
providing a private device controller connectable to the AV ad network and configured to associate with a hardware device adapted to output AV content items;
selecting a private AV ad for a content viewing member from a private AV ad collection and providing the private AV ad to the device controller, the private AV ad having a presentation value;
identifying within the AV content item an optical target associated with a detected target person;
presenting a selected AV content item with the private AV ad on the hardware device to the content viewing member, wherein the private AV ad is superimposed on or with the detected target person, and wherein presenting the private AV ad causes a payment to be transferred to a target account of the detected target person and a member account of the content viewing member based on the presentation value.