Roku, Inc.
Increasing Advertisement Revenue by Repeated Re-Evaluation of Value of Advertisement Spot

Abstract:

In one aspect, an example method includes (i) causing, by a computing system, a first replacement advertisement segment to be transmitted to a content-presentation device for output by the content-presentation device in place of a modifiable advertisement segment in connection with performing a content-replacement operation; (ii) prior to the content-replacement operation, receiving, by the computing system and from the content-presentation device, a re-evaluation request; (iii) based on receiving the re-evaluation request, determining , by the computing system, whether the content-presentation device should output a second replacement advertisement segment instead of the first replacement advertisement segment; and (iv) upon determining that the content-presentation device should output the second replacement advertisement segment instead of the first replacement advertisement segment, causing, by the computing system, the second replacement advertisement segment to be transmitted to the content-presentation device.