Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Tulasi Kumar Neeli

Mukunda Raju

Enrique Ruiz-Velasco

Japan A Mehta

Sanjay Thakurdas Ahuja

Srirama R Kalidindi

Laxmi Patel

Prabhakar Mani

Jesus Martinez

Nagaviswas Ventrapragada

Nageswara Raju Dachiraju

Rajasekhar V Tulasi

Xuejun Hu

Shahzib Zafar

A device provides, to a user device, a list of on demand content available for purchase or rental from the device, and receives, from the user device, an indication of a selected on demand content from the list of on demand content. The device provides, to the user device, points-based purchase or rental options for the selected on demand content, and the points-based purchase or rental options include points associated with a loyalty program provided by the device for a user of the user device. The device receives, from the user device, a selected points-based option from the points-based purchase or rental options, and provides the selected on demand content to the user device based on the selected points-based option.

Video on demand platform

A system, associated with a video provisioning system, may receive a hierarchical representation of categories and subcategories associated with a catalog of video assets; and condense the hierarchical representation of categories and subcategories into a file. The system may further transmit the file to a set top box, where transmitting the file allows the set top box to access the hierarchical representation of categories and subcategories without retrieving, from the video provisioning system, additional information associated with the hierarchical representation of categories and subcategories.

Catalog slicing in a video provisioning system

An exemplary computing system may receive input identifying a first data source. The computing system may also provide a widget template and receive a request to associate the first data source with the widget template. The computing system may create a map that associates the first data source with the widget template. The computing system may provide a widget that displays, based on the map and the widget template, data from the data source. Corresponding methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Methods, systems, and apparatus for developing widgets

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