Patent №
US 8,201,220
Granted
2012-06-12
Filed 2008
Owner
QWEST COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL INC.
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Lab
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AI components
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kr · planning
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
12342789
Methods, systems, devices, and software are disclosed for generating a network usage profile. Certain embodiments of the network usage profile include a devices-by-node profile, indicating the set of customer devices available for use in communicating with a customer-side network node located at a customer side of an access network over a period of time, where some of the customer devices are not in operative communication with the customer-side network node during a portion of that time. Other embodiments associate the network usage profile with customer information to generate device-by-customer profiles. Still other embodiments associate the network usage profile with network traffic information to generate traffic-by-device profiles. Even other embodiments associate the multiple sources and types of information to generate traffic-by-customer profiles and/or traffic-by-device-by-customer profiles. Any of the profiles may then be accessed by one or more parties for use in affecting various network services, including targeting content delivery.
AI classification
Ownership
QWEST COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL INC.
assignment · 222210149
CENTURYLINK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LLC
assignment · 357330282
Assignors
CASEY, STEVEN M., ELCAN, AMIE, BUTALA, JOHN
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.