Patent ID: 8949877
Filing Date: 2015-02-03
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A demand determination method, comprising: receiving, from a client application associated with a first subscriber, a content demand statistics request identifying a second subscriber and a demand type for the second subscriber wherein the demand type for the second subscriber indicates which of a set of available demand types is requested and wherein the set of available demand types includes past demand, current demand, and future demand; responsive to the content demand statistics request, retrieving selected content demand data of the demand type from a content demand statistics subsystem, wherein the selected content demand data is indicative of demand for multimedia content by the second subscriber; delivering the selected content demand data to the client application; and notifying the second subscriber of the content demand statistics request; wherein past demand corresponds to content previously watched, current demand corresponds to content currently being watched, and future demand corresponds to future content that is currently scheduled.