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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. 28, 2023

Filed:

Jun. 29, 2021
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Matthew Polson, Castle Rock, CO (US);

Robert Sadler, Denver, CO (US);

James Wilde, Denver, CO (US);

Timothy Meyer, Denver, CO (US);

Christopher Kuhrt, Englewood, CO (US);

Shaun Ryan, Colorado Springs, CO (US);

Jesse Montgomery, Denver, CO (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/258 (2011.01); H04N 21/4627 (2011.01); G07F 17/32 (2006.01); H04N 21/254 (2011.01); H04N 21/239 (2011.01); H04N 21/478 (2011.01); H04N 21/24 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/2541 (2013.01); G07F 17/3288 (2013.01); H04N 21/2396 (2013.01); H04N 21/2407 (2013.01); H04N 21/25875 (2013.01); H04N 21/4627 (2013.01); H04N 21/478 (2013.01);
Abstract

Various arrangements for authorizing content viewing are detailed herein. Sports wager data corresponding to a sports wager placed by a user may be provided to a television service provider system. The television service provider system can perform a lookup action to determine a content event based on the sports wager data. In response to the received sports wager data, a user account may be authorized using a rights scheme for access to a television channel on which the content event is scheduled to be broadcast. The television service provider system may deauthorized the user account for access to the television channel by removing the rights scheme such that access to the television channel on which the content event was broadcast is blocked after the event.


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