Patent ID: 8214465

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, from each of one or more servers, server signal information identifying a set of channels; receiving, from a user device, signal path information including an identification of a set of user channels that has been listened to by the user device and on which the user device has successfully received signals; and in response to receiving the signal path information: comparing the server signal information received from each of the one or more servers to the signal path information, based on the comparison, determining that the server signal information received from a first server of the one or more servers identifies a set of channels that matches the set of user channels that has been listened to by the user device and on which the user device has successfully received signals, identifying a geographic area of the user device as a function of the signal path information and user information, cross-referencing the signal path information and other signal path information received from one or more other user devices, and associating the user device to the first server, wherein the first server is included in a regional enterprise or a local enterprise.