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US 11,146,473 B2Granted
Measuring response trends in a digital television network
AssigneeOpenTV, Inc.
InventorKevin Staunton-Lambert
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Abstract
Techniques and systems for providing a trend server outside a content provider network to communicate with the content provider network to build a trend record based on responses received from the content provider network for monitoring certain activity trend or tendency in the content provider network and provide an alert when the content provider network behaves abnormally.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method of monitoring communications, the method comprising:
- receiving, by a first server, a message associated with a second server, the message being associated with a type value;
- receiving, by the first server, a response message generated based on the message, the response message including data associated with the message and a parameter value associated with an attribute of the data;
- determining, by the first server, that the response message is acceptable at least in part by determining that the parameter value of the response message meets a threshold defined in one or more activity records, the one or more activity records being associated with the type value associated with the message;
- updating an activity record of the one or more activity records based on the response message and based on the parameter value of the response message meeting the threshold;
- and
- providing, by the first server, the updated activity record for use by the second server.
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A system for monitoring communications, the system comprising:
- a first server engine;
- and
- a second server engine configured for communication with a service provider network, wherein at least one of the first server engine and the second server engine are configured to:
- monitor communication between a computing device and the service provider network, the communication being associated with a type value;
- identify a response message to the computing device generated based on the monitored communication, the response message including data associated with the monitored communication, the data having a parameter value defining a characteristic of the data;
- determine that the response message is acceptable at least in part by determining that the parameter value of the response message is in a range of values for one or more activity records, the range of values being defined based at least on the type value associated with the monitored communication between the computing device and the service provider network;
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- update an activity record of the one or more activity records based on the response message including the parameter value that is in the range of values for the one or more activity records.
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A first server for monitoring communications, comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- a memory accessible to the one or more processors and storing instructions which, upon execution by the one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- receive a message associated with a second server, the message being associated with a type value;
- receive a response message generated based on the message, the response message including data associated with the message and a parameter value associated with an attribute of the data;
- determine that the response message is acceptable at least in part by determining that the parameter value of the response message meets a threshold defined in one or more activity records, the one or more activity records being associated with the type value associated with the message;
- update an activity record of the one or more activity records based on the response message and based on the parameter value of the response message meeting the threshold;
- and
- provide the updated activity record for use by the second server.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.