Patent ID: 9256662
Filing Date: 2016-02-09
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: detecting a viewing event corresponding to a user viewing a content item; determining, using one or more processors, a view reason associated with the viewing event, the view reason indicating how the user was notified of the content item or how the user accessed the content item; generating, using the one or more processors, metadata describing the viewing event; associating the metadata with the content item; receiving a request, from a content author, to display a viewership summary of content items authored by the content author; aggregating metadata describing viewing events associated with the content items authored by the content author; and generating a display, via a user interface in a device, of the viewership summary, based on the aggregated metadata, the viewership summary indicating a list of one or more viewers that have viewed one or more of the content items authored by the content author within a predetermined time period, and the list identifying, for each of the viewers, a specific one of the content items viewed by the viewer, and a view reason indicating how the viewer was notified of the specific content item or how the viewer accessed the specific content item.