System for presenting media content

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9100711-B2
Application number	US-201414246415-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 7, 2014
Priority date	Aug 13, 2007
Publication date	Aug 4, 2015
Grant date	Aug 4, 2015

Abstract

A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a process that monitors consumption of media content of equipment of a user. A tout message associated with a media content item is constructed based on the consumption. The tout message includes information including a selectable link. The selectable link provides instructions to direct a media processor of the subscriber to access the media content item without receiving additional input from equipment of the subscriber. A mobile communication device of the subscriber is selected based on a determined likelihood of reaching the subscriber, and the tout message is transmitted to the mobile communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A machine-readable storage device, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
constructing a tout message associated with a media content item;
including, in the tout message, information associated with the media content item without providing images associated with the media content and further including in the tout message a selectable link including instructions for directing…

Assignees

• At & T Ip I Lp

Inventors

• White Scott

Classifications

• H04N21/472

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/4722

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/4882

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N7/17318

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/4532

  Electricity · mapped topic