Patent ID: 9681184
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: H04N,H04W

Claim:
1. A consumption tracker for promoting and verifying consumption of secondary content via a hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) network used to deliver primary content requested by a given consumer, comprising: an HFC transmitter, operable to transmit, via the HFC network to a set top box (STB) accessible by the given consumer, secondary content and requests for feedback related to the secondary content, wherein the transmitted secondary content affects presentation of the primary content; an HFC receiver, operable to receive feedback signals via the HFC network transmitted from the STB associated with the given consumer in response to the requests for feedback; a consumption tracker controller, operable to determine an extent of consumption of the secondary content transmitted by the HFC transmitter based on a time when the feedback signals are received by the HFC receiver, and the consumption tracker controller is further operable to transmit a message to a policy manger to update a consumer profile for the given consumer to reflect the extent of consumption of the secondary content by the given consumer, wherein the policy manager is operable to: