System and method of determining viewership information
AssigneeAt&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P.
InventorsPaul Van Vleck, Michael Devlin
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Abstract
Systems and methods of determining viewership information are provided. A method of determining viewership information includes determining viewership information from multicast routing table data associated with one or more edge routers of a media content delivery service. Each edge router of the one or more edge routers is adapted to transmit media content streams to multiple devices via a first network. The method also includes sending data related to the viewership information to a requesting device via a second network.
Claims27
A method of determining viewership information, the method comprising:
- determining viewership information from multicast routing table data associated with one or more edge routers of a media content delivery service, each edge router of the one or more edge routers adapted to transmit media content streams to multiple devices via a first network;
- and
- sending data related to the viewership information to a requesting device via a second network.
A system to determine viewership information, the system comprising:
- a interface to communicate with one or more edge routers via a private network, the one or more edge routers adapted to communicate media content to customer premises equipment (CPE) devices, each edge router of the one or more edge routers including a multicast routing table comprising data relating multicast media content to particular CPE devices;
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- a data analyzer coupled to the interface and adapted to retrieve multicast routing table data from the one or more edge routers via the interface, the data analyzer to process the multicast routing table data to determine viewership information and to generate a graphical user interface including data related to the viewership information.
A system to determine viewership information, the system comprising:
- processing logic and memory accessible to the processing logic, the memory comprising instructions executable by the processing logic to:
- determine viewership information from multicast routing table data associated with one or more edge routers of a media content delivery service, each edge router of the one or more edge routers adapted to transmit media content streams to multiple devices via a first network;
- and
- send data related to viewership information to a requesting device via a second network, the data indicating viewership of media content streams.
A method of determining viewership information, the method comprising:
- receiving multicast routing table data from one or more edge routers associated with a content delivery service, the one or more edge routers to route media content streams from the content delivery service to customer premises equipment devices;
- analyzing the multicast routing table data to determine viewership information associated with each media content stream;
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- sending data related to the viewership information to a requesting device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.