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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:
Jul. 27, 2021

Filed:

Jun. 13, 2017
Applicant:

Dish Technologies L.l.c., Englewood, CO (US);

Inventors:

Kenneth Robert Hodge, Castle Rock, CO (US);

Anand Shivashankara Menon, Lone Tree, CO (US);

Assignee:

DISH Technologies L.L.C., Englewood, CO (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/2365 (2011.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04N 21/24 (2011.01); H04N 21/61 (2011.01); H04N 21/2662 (2011.01); H04N 21/658 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/23655 (2013.01); H04L 65/607 (2013.01); H04L 65/80 (2013.01); H04N 21/2402 (2013.01); H04N 21/2407 (2013.01); H04N 21/2662 (2013.01); H04N 21/6143 (2013.01); H04N 21/44222 (2013.01); H04N 21/6582 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems, methods, and processor-readable media are provided for content distribution for a multi-channel content distribution system. A content item may be received by a video handling system. The content item may include video data, the content item corresponding to media for delivery to a television receivers via channel components. A metric of the content item may be detected as a function of time. Viewership data received from data sources may be processed, the viewership data indicative of one or more characteristics of viewers. The viewership data may be mapped to the content item. The content item may be qualified based on the viewership data to yield a qualification result for the content item. An encoding parameter to encode the content item may be determined based on the metric and the qualification result. Encoding of the content item may be specified in accordance with the encoding parameter.


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