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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. 08, 2010

Filed:

Oct. 04, 2001
Applicants:

Tobie Larocca, San Jose, CA (US);

Michael D. Johnson, Danville, CA (US);

Inventors:

Tobie LaRocca, San Jose, CA (US);

Michael D. Johnson, Danville, CA (US);

Assignee:

Cox Communications, Inc., Atlanta, GA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/16 (2006.01); H04N 7/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method for providing subscription-on-demand services for video-on-demand programs within an interactive information distribution system. The method includes associating a plurality of video-on-demand programming packages as a programming bundle and identifying a number of video-on-demand programming packages within the programming bundle that a subscriber has subscribed. When the number of video-on-demand programming packages exceeds a pre-specified number of programming packages, the subscriber is automatically subscribed to all the video-on-demand programming packages in the programming bundle.


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