Patent ID: 8514867

Claim:
An apparatus to collect usage statistics related to broadband content transmitted to one or more end user devices, the apparatus comprising: a. a controller to access one or more broadband content data streams over a transmission infrastructure having a first quality of service that is applied to all of the broadband content streams transmitted over the infrastructure, wherein each broadband content data stream is identified by a broadband content provider, and further wherein the controller is configured to receive a request for specific broadband content from an end user device, to apply a second quality of service to the broadband content data stream based on the broadband content provider, to selectively transmit one of the one or more broadband content data streams to the end user device according to the request, and to determine usage statistics associated with the transmitted broadband content data stream; and b. a database to store the usage statistics from any end user device receiving one of the one or more broadband content data streams from the apparatus; wherein the first quality of service is different than the second quality of service.