Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Price driven multimedia content reception
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Application No.: US15133322Application Date: 2016-04-20
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Publication No.: US09888274B2Publication Date: 2018-02-06
- Inventor: Ronald Hirsch , Tell Allen Gates
- Applicant: Edge2020 LLC
- Applicant Address: US VA Herndon
- Assignee: EDGE2020, LLC
- Current Assignee: EDGE2020, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US VA Herndon
- Agency: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino LLP
- Agent Dan Fiul
- Main IPC: H04N7/173
- IPC: H04N7/173 ; H04N21/2547 ; G06Q30/02 ; H04N21/262 ; H04N21/4408 ; H04N21/426 ; H04N21/4405 ; H04N21/61 ; H04N21/472

Abstract:
An apparatus can include an external interface, a user interface, and an assembly engine. The external interface can receive, from a gateway device, a subscriber content price for multimedia content, the subscriber content price being based on a lead-time of electronic delivery of the multimedia content via at least one transport provider servicing the customer premises equipment, and receive the multimedia content within the lead-time. The user interface can schedule, based on the subscriber content price, electronic delivery of the multimedia content to the customer premises equipment within the lead-time. The assembly engine can retrieve the multimedia content from a storage device and output the multimedia content to a display device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160316242A1 Price Driven Multimedia Content Reception Public/Granted day:2016-10-27
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