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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.

Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2018

Filed:

Feb. 10, 2016
Applicant:

Next Issue Media, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventors:

Keith Barraclough, Mountain View, CA (US);

David Irvine, San Jose, CA (US);

Melanie Larson, Mountain View, CA (US);

Morgan P. Guenther, Sausalito, CA (US);

Gerri Johnson, New York, NY (US);

Assignee:

Next Issue Media, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/5054 (2013.01); H04L 65/601 (2013.01); H04L 67/22 (2013.01);
Abstract

Media content is provided using metric-apportioning. In accordance with one or more embodiments, remote-user interface circuits are authenticated and remote access is provided to different sets of media content via the interface. For each authenticated interface and a time-based period during which the interface accesses the media content, time-stamped usage data that characterizes use of the media content at the interface is communicated therewith. A usage metric characterizing usage of the media content is apportioned based upon the time-stamped usage data and stored weighting factor data for the media content.


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