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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
Applicant:
Brightcove Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Inventors:
Albert John McGowan, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Matthew A. Johnson, Tempe, AZ (US);
Assignee:
Brightcove Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04N 21/258 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/25 (2011.01); H04N 21/4223 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30386 (2013.01); H04N 21/251 (2013.01); H04N 21/25883 (2013.01); H04N 21/44218 (2013.01); H04N 21/44222 (2013.01); H04N 21/4223 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system, method and apparatus are disclosed which may be used to provide demographic and behavior data of a user of a video service provider. The user demographic information may be obtained by obtaining an image of the user, analyzing the image data, and providing the information about the determined demographic data. Behavior data may be obtained from at least one sensor monitoring user actions and correlating the user actions with video content being provided to the user.