Patent ID: 9071875
Filing Date: 2015-06-30
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a recommendation engine configured to provide a recommendation as to whether to transmit a video-on-demand content item to a group of media devices, wherein the recommendation is based on group-level information associated with the group of media devices and further based on user-level information associated with a particular media device of the group of media devices; and a network interface configured to multicast the video-on-demand content item to each media device of the group of media devices based upon the recommendation, wherein the video-on-demand content item is associated with an offer time period, wherein the offer time period is associated with an offer to purchase the video-on-demand content item, wherein the offer is generated at the particular media device based on metadata corresponding to the video-on-demand content item, wherein the offer is presented via the particular media device, wherein the video-on-demand content item is scheduled to be rendered unplayable at the particular media device of the group of media devices in response to expiration of the offer time period, and wherein a start of the offer time period is independent of whether the video-on-demand content item is purchased via the particular media device.