Digital delivery system and user interface for enabling the digital delivery of media content

US8584256B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• FOX ENTERTAINMENT GROUP, INC. · US

Inventors

• Elaine M. Spooner · Calabasas, US
• John D. Koscheka · Los Angeles, US
• Michael S. Bessolo · Glendale, US
• Mark Simpson · Sydney, AU
• Jean L. Yuan · Manhattan Beach, US
• J. Craig D. Russell · Calabasas, US
• Christopher M. Bettes · Los Angeles, US
• Greg McCarthy · Santa Monica, US
• Srinivas Kundula · Rancho Santa Margarita, US
• Venkata Nagaraju Mantena · Trabuco Canyon, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 20, 2011
• Grant date: Nov 12, 2013
• Expiry date: Oct 8, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/0601
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system, method, and computer readable storage medium provides the ability to deliver media content. A repository stores media content and marketing assets for the media content. A server computer provides a website accessible on the Internet worldwide to client computers. The website provides the ability to search a public site catalog/library of media content that is publicly available. The website further provides marketing assets for licensed media content from the library to authorized client users (that have a license to media content) in a secure manner. The website further provides preview screening access and download access to licensed media content (e.g., titles of audio-visual media content) to the authorized client users.