US 11,818,404 B2
Thumbnail of content video to provide context to ad video playback
Nicola Ann Crane, San Francisco, CA (US); Jamieson Kerns, Santa Monica, CA (US); Shiva Jaini, Mountain View, CA (US); Thomas James Broxton, San Francisco, CA (US); and Ramesh Sarukkai, Los Gatos, CA (US)
Assigned to GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 15, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/376,492.
Application 17/376,492 is a continuation of application No. 15/201,354, filed on Jul. 1, 2016, granted, now 11,089,342.
Application 15/201,354 is a continuation of application No. 13/480,433, filed on May 24, 2012, granted, now 9,386,328, issued on Jul. 5, 2016.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/565,218, filed on Nov. 30, 2011.
Prior Publication US 2021/0344980 A1, Nov. 4, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04N 21/234 (2011.01); H04N 5/272 (2006.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/8355 (2011.01); H04N 21/431 (2011.01); H04N 21/4627 (2011.01); H04N 21/2387 (2011.01); H04N 21/472 (2011.01); H04N 21/475 (2011.01); H04N 21/858 (2011.01)
CPC H04N 21/23424 (2013.01) [H04N 5/272 (2013.01); H04N 5/2723 (2013.01); H04N 21/2387 (2013.01); H04N 21/4312 (2013.01); H04N 21/4627 (2013.01); H04N 21/4758 (2013.01); H04N 21/47217 (2013.01); H04N 21/812 (2013.01); H04N 21/8355 (2013.01); H04N 21/858 (2013.01)] 26 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
generating a thumbnail associated with video content, the video content to be provided for playback after playback of a video advertisement; and
presenting the thumbnail during the playback of the video advertisement to inform a user of the video content, wherein a skip counter indicative of time left until skipping of the video advertisement is enabled is provided, and wherein the time left is less than a remaining playing time of the video advertisement.