Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods and systems for monitoring content subscription usage
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Application No.: US14928934Application Date: 2015-10-30
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Publication No.: US10178421B2Publication Date: 2019-01-08
- Inventor: William L. Thomas , Walter R. Klappert
- Applicant: Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Haley Guiliano LLP
- Main IPC: H04N21/2543
- IPC: H04N21/2543 ; H04L29/06 ; H04N21/442 ; H04N21/239 ; H04N21/41 ; H04N21/24 ; H04N21/254

Abstract:
In some aspects, control circuitry detects a plurality of instances in which the number of requests to simultaneously stream media from a subscription service to different devices exceeds a number of streams available to the user from the subscription service. The control circuitry generates a plurality of timestamps corresponding to the plurality of instances, and compares each timestamp to a range of timestamps that corresponds to a subscription period for the subscription service in order to determine a number of instances that occurred during the subscription period. The control circuitry compares the number of instances that occurred during the subscription period to a threshold number for the subscription period. Control circuitry transmits a message, from the server to one of the different devices, if the threshold is exceeded.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170127104A1 Methods and systems for monitoring content subscription usage Public/Granted day:2017-05-04
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