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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 31, 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);
Verizon and Redbox Digital Entertainment Services, LLC, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
An exemplary method includes a media service provider system 1) generating, based on a first set of most-accessed media programs of a first media distribution model of a media service and a second set of most-accessed media programs of a second media distribution model of the media service, data representative of a merged set of most-accessed media programs that includes at least one media program from the first set of most-accessed media programs and at least one media program from the second set of most-accessed media programs and 2) providing, for display, user interface content representing the merged set of most-accessed media programs. In the method, the first media distribution model includes a digital media distribution model that utilizes a digital media distribution channel, and the second media distribution model includes a physical media distribution model that utilizes a physical media distribution channel.