LOCATION PROFILING

摘要

One or more of a system, method, apparatus, and computer-program product to identify or approximate or estimate where a particular television receiver is geographically located using spot beam transport information as described in the specification and/or shown in any of the drawings.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
receiving at a television receiver a command to access a listing that contains at least one transponder identifier that identifies a particular signal detected by the television receiver; querying based on the command a memory location of the television receiver that is associated with the listing, to obtain each transponder identifier within the listing; and queuing a message that includes a representation of each transponder identifier within the listing for transmission over a network interface of the television receiver to a computing system that is configured to estimate geographic location of the television receiver based on each transponder identifier within the listing.