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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2020

Filed:

Apr. 06, 2018
Applicant:

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

William R. Matz, Atlanta, GA (US);

Scott R. Swix, Rockford, MI (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/658 (2011.01); H04H 60/63 (2008.01); H04H 60/43 (2008.01); H04N 21/258 (2011.01); H04N 21/24 (2011.01); H04N 7/173 (2011.01); H04H 60/66 (2008.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04H 60/33 (2008.01); H04N 21/2668 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/6582 (2013.01); H04H 60/33 (2013.01); H04H 60/43 (2013.01); H04H 60/63 (2013.01); H04H 60/66 (2013.01); H04N 7/17318 (2013.01); H04N 21/2408 (2013.01); H04N 21/25891 (2013.01); H04N 21/2668 (2013.01); H04N 21/44222 (2013.01); H04N 21/812 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for effectively and efficiently receiving, analyzing, and using subscriber content choice information are described. One embodiment of the present invention includes a subscriber-action database, such as a clickstream database, a media-content database, and a merge processor electronically connected to the two databases for merging data in the subscriber-action database with data in the media-content database to create a subscriber content-choice database. The media-content database may include programming and/or advertising data. The media-content database may also include category and context information to provide the capability to comprehensively analyze data in the subscriber content-choice database.


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