Patent ID: 9204178
Filing Date: 2015-12-01
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: providing, by one or more network devices and to a user device associated with a particular subscriber account, selected media content from a group of content options available from different content providers; receiving, by one of the one or more network devices and from the user device, device tracking data, wherein the device tracking data includes a viewing history, for the user device, that identifies a number of viewers of a viewing screen of the user device; retrieving, by one of the one or more network devices, billing rates for the particular subscriber account, the billing rates including multipliers for a standard rate, a time slot, a channel tier, and a number of viewers; identifying, by one of the one or more network devices, data increments within the device tracking data, each of the data increments including a time increment that is applicable to a same combination of the multipliers from the billing rates; generating, by one of the one or more network devices, a billing record for the particular subscriber account, wherein the billing record includes a billing amount that is calculated by applying the multipliers to the data increments; compiling, by one of the one or more network devices, the device tracking data with tracking data from multiple other user accounts to form compiled tracking data; and calculating, by one of the one or more network devices, based on the compiled tracking data, proportional revenue shares for the different content providers.