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Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2015

Filed:

Dec. 30, 2010
Applicants:

Kristopher Frazier, Frisco, TX (US);

Ruchir Rodrigues, Dallas, TX (US);

Lonnie Hiroshi Katai, Murphy, TX (US);

Alison Kay Allen, Dallas, TX (US);

Jayson D. Sellers, Flower Mound, TX (US);

John Stanley Chittenden, Grapevine, TX (US);

Inventors:

Kristopher Frazier, Frisco, TX (US);

Ruchir Rodrigues, Dallas, TX (US);

Lonnie Hiroshi Katai, Murphy, TX (US);

Alison Kay Allen, Dallas, TX (US);

Jayson D. Sellers, Flower Mound, TX (US);

John Stanley Chittenden, Grapevine, TX (US);

Assignee:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/173 (2011.01); H04H 60/33 (2008.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04H 60/33 (2013.01); H04N 21/44213 (2013.01); H04H 2201/37 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method including providing at least one of a television service or an Internet access service to a customer; generating predictive options pertaining to content delivered to the customer, wherein the predictive options correspond to possible future events that could occur with respect to the content; receiving a customer selection of one of the predictive options; determining whether the customer-selected predictive option matches an outcome with respect to the content; and assigning a score to the customer based on whether the selected predictive option successfully or unsuccessfully predicted the outcome.


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