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Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2016

Filed:

Dec. 13, 2010
Applicants:

Venket S. Kandanala, Highland Village, TX (US);

Nicky Pinakin Joshi, Flower Mound, TX (US);

Lisa A. Caputo, Dade City, FL (US);

Karthik Srinivasan, Flower Mound, TX (US);

Mousumi Dasgupta, Irving, TX (US);

Anand N. Sankaran, MGR Nagar, IN;

Rajesh Narayanan, Virugambakkam, IN;

Jubish C. Parambath, Madipakkam, IN;

Mareeswari Muthusamy, Tamil Nadu, IN;

Vijayprabhu Baskaran, Tamil Nadu, IN;

Inventors:

Venket S. Kandanala, Highland Village, TX (US);

Nicky Pinakin Joshi, Flower Mound, TX (US);

Lisa A. Caputo, Dade City, FL (US);

Karthik Srinivasan, Flower Mound, TX (US);

Mousumi Dasgupta, Irving, TX (US);

Anand N. Sankaran, MGR Nagar, IN;

Rajesh Narayanan, Virugambakkam, IN;

Jubish C. Parambath, Madipakkam, IN;

Mareeswari Muthusamy, Tamil Nadu, IN;

VijayPrabhu Baskaran, Tamil Nadu, IN;

Assignee:

VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/048 (2013.01); H04N 5/445 (2011.01); H04N 21/482 (2011.01); H04N 21/431 (2011.01); H04N 21/478 (2011.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/482 (2013.01); G06Q 30/02 (2013.01); H04N 5/44543 (2013.01); H04N 21/4314 (2013.01); H04N 21/47815 (2013.01); H04N 2005/44556 (2013.01); H04N 2005/44578 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method may include receiving a user request to view a channel to which the user does not currently subscribe. Customer information regarding the user and marketing rules regarding a plurality of combination offers that include the channel may be obtained. A number of combination offers from the plurality of combination offers may be determined based on the customer information and the marketing rules. One or more of the determined combination offers may be provided to the user. A user request to purchase a selected one of the provided combination offers may be received. The channels included within the selected combination offer may be provisioned based on the user request.


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