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US 11,641,442 B2Granted
Selection of electronic content and services
AssigneeComcast Cable Communications, LLC
InventorsDerek T. Harrar, Jack M. Birnbaum
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Abstract
A system and method to facilitating selecting or otherwise providing access to electronic content and services. Access to the content and services may be provided in such as a manner as to facilitate access to higher quality forms of the content. The higher quality forms of the content may be relate to any number of characteristics associated with displaying, transmitting, compressing, securing, and/or otherwise manipulating the content to more suitable forms relative to another form.
Claims48
A system comprising:
- one or more processors configured to cause an apparatus to:
- receive a request by a user to receive content in a first definition format;
- determine whether the content is available in a second definition format, wherein the second definition format comprises a higher definition than the first definition format;
- after determining that the content is available in the second definition format, access the content in the second definition format;
- change, based on accessing the content in the second definition format, a demographic associated with the user from a first demographic to a second demographic;
- determine, based on the second demographic, an advertisement associated with the content in the second definition format, wherein the advertisement is different from another advertisement associated with the content in the first definition format;
- and
- output, to a display device, the content in the second definition format and the advertisement associated with the content in the second definition format;
- and
- a computing device configured to send the content in the second definition format.
7 more elements
A system comprising:
- one or more processors configured to cause an apparatus to:
- receive a selection of a portion of a content listing, the portion corresponding to content in a first definition format;
- determine whether the content is available in a second definition format, wherein the second definition format comprises a higher definition than the first definition format;
- based on determining that the content is available in the second definition format, cause display of an option, within the content listing, for a user to select the second definition format;
- change, based on a selection of the option, a demographic associated with the user from a first demographic to a second demographic;
- determine, based on the second demographic, an advertisement associated with the content in the second definition format, wherein the advertisement is different from another advertisement associated with the content in the first definition format;
- and
- output the advertisement;
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- a computing device configured to send the advertisement.
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A system comprising:
- one or more processors configured to cause an apparatus to:
- access a first content item having a first definition;
- associate, based on accessing the first content item, a user of the apparatus with a first demographic;
- receive a request to access a second content item having the first definition;
- after determining that a third content item, corresponding to the second content item and having a second definition higher than the first definition, is available, access the third content item;
- associate, based on accessing the third content item, the user with a second demographic that is different from the first demographic;
- determine, based on the second demographic, an advertisement associated with the third content item, wherein the advertisement is different from another advertisement for the second content item having the first definition;
- and
- output the advertisement associated with the third content item;
- and
- a computing device configured to send the advertisement.
8 more elements
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a computing device, a request by a user to receive content in a first definition format;
- determining whether the content is available in a second definition format, wherein the second definition format comprises a higher definition than the first definition format;
- after determining that the content is available in the second definition format, accessing the content in the second definition format;
- changing, based on accessing the content in the second definition format, a demographic associated with the user from a first demographic to a second demographic;
- determining, based on the second demographic, an advertisement associated with the content in the second definition format, wherein the advertisement is different from another advertisement associated with the content in the first definition format;
- and
- outputting, to a display device, the content in the second definition format and the advertisement associated with the content in the second definition format.
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One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed, cause a computing device to:
- receive a request by a user to receive content in a first definition format;
- determine whether the content is available in a second definition format, wherein the second definition format comprises a higher definition than the first definition format;
- after determining that the content is available in the second definition format, access the content in the second definition format;
- change, based on accessing the content in the second definition format, a demographic associated with the user from a first demographic to a second demographic;
- determine, based on the second demographic, an advertisement associated with the content in the second definition format, wherein the advertisement is different from another advertisement associated with the content in the first definition format;
- and
- output, to a display device, the content in the second definition format and the advertisement associated with the content in the second definition format.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.