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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2017
Filed:
May. 22, 2014
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Shadman Zafar, Plano, TX (US);
Brian F. Roberts, Dallas, TX (US);
Shafiq Kassam, Lewisville, TX (US);
Enrique Ruiz-Velasco, Flower Mound, TX (US);
VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods provide an online directory service over a network. After receiving a request to view an online directory listing from a network-enabled user terminal, an online directory server may present to the user terminal a directory listing associated with an identifier of audiovisual content. In response to a selection by a user of the listing, the user terminal may provide the identifier associated with the selected directory listing to the directory server. Based on the identifier, the directory server may access the audiovisual content and provide it to the user terminal and may present it to the user in conjunction with the other information of the directory listing.