Licensed media in a remote storage media consumption service

• US 10,002,355 B1
• Filed: 10/19/2011
• Issued: 06/19/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Dixon, Scott
• Primary Examiner(s): Huang, Tsan-Yu J
• Application Number:
  US13/276,897
• Time in Patent Office: 2,435 Days
• Field of Search: 705 51, 705 59, 705 77
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/127 Shopping or accessing services according to a time-limitation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3224 Transactions dependent on location of M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/4015 using location information

Abstract

Disclosed are various embodiments for facilitating a payment to an owner of a media file for enabling the consumption of the media file. In one embodiment, a jukebox service transmits a plurality of media files to a plurality of users for consumption, wherein the media files are served up from a plurality of cloud drives associated with the users. A license service determines whether the consumption comprises at least one of a download, a purchase and an execution of the media files. Then, the license service facilitates a payment to the owner of the media files if a payment is owed to the owner. In one embodiment, the payment owed to the owner may be based on the type of consumption of the media files.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying a program executable in a computing device, wherein, when executed, the program causes the computing device to at least:

communicate, to a plurality of clients associated with a plurality of users, a request for access by a jukebox service to a plurality of file systems of the plurality of clients;

verify that individual ones of the plurality of clients are located within a predefined radius from a user-specified location based at least in part on a detection of a quick response code being scanned by the individual ones of the plurality of clients, the quick response code being associated with the jukebox service and positioned at a respective location within the predefined radius, the user-specified location being received from a user interface associated with the jukebox service;

enable, with the jukebox service, a public consumption of one of a plurality of media files for the plurality of clients by serving up at least the one of the plurality of media files from a remote data store associated with at least one of the file systems of at least one of the plurality of clients granting access in response to the request for access, wherein the public consumption is enabled based at least in part on the verification of the individual ones of the plurality of clients being within the predefined radius;

determine whether the public consumption corresponds to at least one of a plurality of natures of consumption, wherein the plurality of natures of consumption comprise a download, a purchase, and an execution of the one of the plurality of media files, wherein each of the plurality of natures of consumption is associated with a different payment amount;

identify an owner of a plurality of intellectual property rights of the plurality of media files, wherein the owner owns a copyright of the plurality of media files and permits the public consumption of the plurality of media files according to an agreement, the agreement comprising at least one of a flat fee license agreement or a per use license agreement; and

generate a payment owed to the owner for the public consumption of the one of the plurality of media files based at least in part on the different payment amount corresponding to each of the plurality of natures of consumption associated with the plurality of media files.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the program, when executed, further causes the computing device to facilitate serving up an advertisement provided by the owner to the plurality of users.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 2, wherein the advertisement is served up to the plurality of users in exchange for a permission to enable the public consumption of at least the one of the plurality of media files.

4. A system comprising:

a data store; and

a computing device in communication with the data store, the computing device configured to at least;

communicate, to a plurality of clients associated with a plurality of users, a request for access by a jukebox service to a plurality of file systems of the plurality of clients;

verify that individual ones of the plurality of clients are located within a predefined radius from a user-specified location based at least in part on a detection of a quick response code being scanned by the individual ones of the plurality of clients, the quick response code being associated with the jukebox service and positioned at a respective location within the predefined radius, the user-specified location being received from a user interface associated with the jukebox service;

enable a consumption of one of a plurality of media files for the plurality of clients by serving up the one of the plurality of media files with the jukebox service to the plurality of users in communication with the jukebox service, wherein the plurality of media files are stored on at least one of the file systems of at least one of the plurality of clients granting access in response to the request for access, wherein the consumption is enabled based at least in part on the verification of the individual ones of the plurality of clients being within the predefined radius;

determine a nature of the consumption of the one of the plurality of media files;

identify a licensor of the one of the plurality of media files and an agreement associated with the licensor defining a payment amount corresponding to the nature of the consumption;

determine whether a payment to the licensor is owed for the consumption of the one of the plurality of media files based at least in part on the payment amount associated with the nature of the consumption; and

responsive to the determination that the payment is owed, facilitate the payment to the licensor.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the nature of the consumption comprises at least one of purchasing, renting, playing, or downloading.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the computing device configured to determine whether the payment to the licensor has been fulfilled is further configured to at least:

identify a type of a license agreement with the licensor for facilitating the consumption of the one of the plurality of media files; and

determine whether the license agreement indicates that the licensor receives the payment upon the consumption of the one of the plurality of media files for the determined nature of the consumption.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the type of the license agreement comprises one of a flat fee license agreement, a per use license agreement, or a subscription agreement.

8. The system of claim 4, wherein the computing device is further configured to transmit at least one of the plurality of media files to a client device for the consumption in a public environment.

9. The system of claim 4, wherein the computing device is further configured to transmit at least one of the plurality of media files to another computing device for the consumption in a remote jukebox environment by the jukebox service.

10. The system of claim 4, wherein the computing device configured to determine whether a media file has been consumed is further configured to determine whether a media file listed in a media playlist has been transmitted to another computing device for the consumption.

11. The system of claim 4, wherein the computing device is further configured to transmit an advertisement.

12. A computer-implemented method comprising:

communicating, from a computing device, to a plurality of clients associated with a plurality of users, a request for access by a jukebox service to a plurality of file systems of the plurality of clients;

verifying, from the computing device, that individual ones of the plurality of clients are located within a predefined radius from a user-specified location based at least in part on a detection of a quick response code being scanned by the individual ones of the plurality of clients, the quick response code being associated with the jukebox service and positioned at a respective location within the predefined radius, the user-specified location being received from a user interface associated with the jukebox service;

enabling, from the computing device, a consumption of one of a plurality of media files by serving up the one of the plurality of media files with the jukebox service to the plurality of users in communication with the jukebox service, wherein the plurality of media files are stored on at least one of the file systems of at least one of the plurality of clients granting access in response to the request for access, wherein the consumption is enabled based at least in part on the verification of the individual ones of the plurality of clients being within the predefined radius;

identifying, in the computing device, an owner of an intellectual property right for the one of the plurality of media files; and

facilitating, from the computing device, a payment to the owner for enabling the consumption of the one of the plurality of media files, wherein the payment corresponds to a respective one of a plurality of payment amounts associated with a plurality of types of the consumption, wherein the plurality of payment amounts vary depending on respective ones of the plurality of types of the consumption.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, further comprising determining, in the computing device, a type of agreement under which the owner permits the consumption of the one of the plurality of media files.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, where facilitating the payment to the owner further comprises determining whether the payment is owed to the owner.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, wherein facilitating the payment to the owner further comprises determining a nature of the consumption of the one of the plurality of media files.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 15, wherein the nature of the consumption comprises one of a purchase, a download, or an execution of the one of the plurality of media files.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 13, where the facilitating the payment to the owner further comprises determining whether a payment is owed to the owner based on the type of agreement.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 13, wherein the type of agreement comprises one of a flat fee license, a per use license agreement, or a subscription agreement.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, further comprising serving up an advertisement to the plurality of users provided by the owner.

20. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, further comprising determining a playlist order for the plurality of media files based at least in part on a playlist preference associated with one of the plurality of clients.