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

US9075998B2 · 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: Oct 7, 2013
• Grant date: Jul 7, 2015
• Expiry date: Oct 7, 2033

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 provide multi-platform accessibility of media content in a global computer network. Media content is selected in a client computer. Based on a format of the content, a media content player is loaded. If the content is not digital rights managements (DRM) protected, it is loaded and played in the player. If the content is DRM protected, a license to play the content is requested via an API and obtained via a server process. A web server computer creates/updates an authorized client user by communicating with a DRM server. The web server then creates a session with the DRM server and enables authorization to play by communicating with the DRM server that transmits the license to the client computer. Based on the license, the client loads and plays the content in the player.