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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2014
Applicant:
At&t Knowledge Ventures, L.p., Reno, NV (US);
Inventors:
Paul Van Vleck, Austin, TX (US);
Michael Devlin, Leander, TX (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/445 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04L 12/66 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/44213 (2013.01); H04L 12/66 (2013.01); H04N 21/44222 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method includes sending, from a media device, a request for viewership information via a network. The method also includes receiving, at the media device, the viewership information, where the viewership information is determined based on a corresponding portion of multicast routing table data stored at each of a plurality of edge routers, and where each portion includes a corresponding plurality of entries associated with media content. The method further includes receiving, at the media device, a user interface based on the viewership information.