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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2013
Verizon and Redbox Digital Entertainment Services, Llc, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Brian F. Roberts, Dallas, TX (US);
Imran Arif Maskatia, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Paul Bradley Bowers, Winfield, IL (US);
Jeffrey L. Harris, Leesburg, VA (US);
Verizon and Redbox Digital Entertainment Services, LLC, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
An exemplary method includes a media service provider system 1) providing an end user of an integrated media service with access to a media program by way of a plurality of different media distribution models, 2) maintaining a catalog that includes comprehensive information about the media program, the comprehensive information being an aggregate of non-redundant information about the media program obtained from a plurality of independent source catalogs corresponding to the plurality of different media distribution models, and 3) providing, based on the comprehensive information included in the catalog, a media service user interface that supports discovery of the comprehensive information about the media program regardless of a user interface context from which a user request for information about the media program is received. Corresponding systems and methods are also described.