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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2017
Cbs Interactive Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Brijesh Sutaria, Parkland, FL (US);
Ryan Collado, Ft. Lauderdale, FL (US);
Louis Miller, Belvidere, NJ (US);
Grant Gurtin, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ray Solebello, Boca Raton, FL (US);
CBS Interactive Inc., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, executed on a computing device, includes calculating a selection time period as a function of a time bank allotment for a user profile, a defined time for a selection, and a number of available selections; sending a notification to a client device indicating that the selection time period is initiated at a first time; receiving a selection from the client device at a second time; updating the time bank allotment according to a used time, the used time comprising an amount of time between the first time and the second time; decrementing the number of available selections; and updating the user profile with the received selection. Other embodiments are described and claimed.