Patent ID: 11863819
Assignee: BCE INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 19:
20. A method for monitoring media content consumption, comprising:
receiving a plurality of playback requests associated with a customer account at a content consumption monitoring system;
processing the plurality of playback requests at the content consumption monitoring system;
authorizing each playback of the media content based on one or more of: the media content being requested, the customer account, a location of a content consumption device used to access the media content, and an access network used by the content consumption device to access the media content;
receiving a first plurality of content consumption notification messages with the customer account, each content consumption notification message comprising a unique subscriber identifier (ID) identifying the customer account, an access network identifier identifying a first access network used by a content consumption device to access the media content, a media content playback event identifier indicative of a playback event at the content consumption device, a time associated with the playback event, and media content information;
receiving a second plurality of content consumption notification messages associated with the customer account, each content consumption notification message comprising the unique subscriber identifier (ID) identifying the customer account, an access network identifier identifying a second access network used by a content consumption device to access the media content, a media content playback event identifier indicative of a playback event at the content consumption device, a time associated with the playback event, and media content information;
storing the first and the second pluralities of content consumption notification messages in association with the customer account; and
processing the first and the second pluralities of content consumption notification messages to determine a charge for the customer account based on subscription information and by determining an amount of time that the media content is played back over each of the first and second access networks,
wherein the content consumption notification message and further content consumption notification message are received for each content consumption device used by the unique subscriber identifier to access the media content, and
wherein the charge for the customer account is based on the amount of time that the media content is played back over each of the first and second access networks for each content consumption device.