US 12,112,389 B2
Assessment and performance system for content distribution across multiple channels
Ashley Kindsvatter, Greenwood Village, CO (US); Karin Bleiler, Greenwood Village, CO (US); Katie Stolpa, Greenwood Village, CO (US); Joe Mancini, Greenwood Village, CO (US); Eshwar Belani, Greenwood Village, CO (US); Jagdish Unni, Greenwood Village, CO (US); and Sudarson Pratihar, Greenwood Village, CO (US)
Assigned to Cable Audit Associates, LLC, Greenwood Village, CO (US)
Filed by Symphony MediaAI, Greenwood Village, CO (US)
Filed on Dec. 16, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/644,779.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/126,508, filed on Dec. 16, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0188941 A1, Jun. 16, 2022
Int. Cl. G06Q 40/12 (2023.01); G06Q 10/0639 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 40/12 (2013.12) [G06Q 10/0639 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
one or more processors; and
memory containing instructions configured to control the one or more processors to:
receive a first distribution report from a first distribution partner and a second distribution report from a second distribution partner, the first distribution partner providing distribution of a first content owner's content to consumers over a first OTT distribution channel, the second distribution partner providing distribution of the first content owner's content over a second OTT distribution channel, the distribution partners being independent of each other, the first distribution partner and the second distribution partner distributing at least some of a same content of the first content owner's content to different consumers, the first OTT distribution channel being different than the second OTT distribution channel, the first distribution report indicating first performance information including consumer consumption of the first content owner's content provided over the first OTT distribution channel and first revenue information related to distribution of the first content owner's content, the consumer consumption of the first distribution report indicating consumption by a plurality of different, unrelated consumers of the first content owner's content over the first OTT distribution channel, the second distribution report indicating second performance information including consumer consumption of the first content owner's content provided over the second OTT distribution channel and revenue information related to the first content owner's content, the consumer consumption of the second distribution report indicating consumption by a plurality of different, unrelated consumers of the first content owner's content over the second OTT distribution channel, the consumers of the consumer consumption of the second distribution report being different than the consumers of the consumer consumption of the first distribution report;
retrieve first revenue information from the first distribution report, the first revenue information indicating first payments from the first distribution partner to a first content owner in exchange for content distribution;
determine first payment information based on first revenue rules and the first performance information from the first distribution report, the first performance information indicating consumption of the first content owner's content using the first OTT distribution channel, the first payment information indicating payment earned by the first content owner based on the first revenue rules, the first revenue rules indicating criteria of compensation between the content owner and the first distribution partner;
notify a first content owner system of the first content owner if the first payment information does not match the first revenue information;
retrieve second revenue information from the second distribution report, the second revenue information indicating second payments from the second distribution partner to the first content owner in exchange for content distribution;
determine second payment information based on second revenue rules and the second performance information from the second distribution report, the second performance information indicating consumption of the first content owner's content using the second OTT distribution channel, the second payment information indicating payment earned by the first content owner based on the second revenue rules, the second revenue rules indicating criteria of compensation between the content owner and the second distribution partner;
notify a first content owner system of the first content owner if the second payment information does not match the second revenue information; and
provide a first graphical user interface depicting first aggregate value of each title of a plurality of titles of the first content, the aggregate value being an aggregation of the first payment information from the first distribution report and the second payment information from the second distribution report, one or more of the plurality of titles of the first content being distributed by both the first OTT distribution channel and the second OTT distribution channel, the first graphical user interface further configured to display the first payment information and the first revenue information associated with the first distribution partner, first performance information associated with the first distribution partner, the second payment information and the second revenue information associated with the second distribution partner, second performance information associated with the second distribution partner.