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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:
Mar. 29, 2022

Filed:

Nov. 20, 2020
Applicant:

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

Inventor:

Eric Pleiman, Englewood, CO (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/445 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/482 (2011.01); H04N 21/2187 (2011.01); G07F 17/32 (2006.01); H04N 21/4545 (2011.01); H04N 21/431 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/8126 (2013.01); G07F 17/3223 (2013.01); G07F 17/3225 (2013.01); G07F 17/3288 (2013.01); H04N 21/2187 (2013.01); H04N 21/4312 (2013.01); H04N 21/4545 (2013.01); H04N 21/4821 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system for automatically selecting television channels based on wager information can include a set-top box, wager databases having user wager information, broadcast databases having broadcast schedule information, and a controller. The wager information can include an event identifier and a corresponding wager amount. The broadcast schedule can include a channel, a start time, and an end time for each event. The controller can include processors and memory devices having instructions that cause the processors to obtain wager information for the user from the wager databases, match each event identifier and corresponding wager amount to the broadcast schedule, determine a set of live events by comparing a current time with the start time and end time for each event, prioritize the live events based on wager amount, and send an instruction to the set-top box to display the channel corresponding to each live event in order of priority.


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