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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:
Dec. 19, 2023

Filed:

Dec. 19, 2019
Applicant:

The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, New York, NY (US);

Inventors:

John R. Burbank, New York, NY (US);

Kurt R. Thielen, Maple Grove, MN (US);

Assignee:

The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4627 (2011.01); H04N 21/431 (2011.01); H04N 21/472 (2011.01); H04N 21/488 (2011.01); H04N 21/45 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/47202 (2013.01); H04N 21/431 (2013.01); H04N 21/4532 (2013.01); H04N 21/4627 (2013.01); H04N 21/4882 (2013.01);
Abstract

A computing system detects that a media presentation device such as a television is in a content-selection mode in which a user is likely to select video content to be presented by the media presentation device, at a time when the media presentation device is not using a video-on-demand service. In response, the computing system causes the media presentation device to present a prompt for user approval to have the media presentation device present video content of the video-on-demand service. By presenting this prompt at a time when the media presentation device is in a content-selection mode and is not using the video-on-demand service, the disclosed mechanism can thereby help foster use of the video-on-demand service.


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