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Apparatus and methods for ensuring delivery of geographically relevant content

  • US 10,516,755 B2
  • Filed: 02/17/2018
  • Issued: 12/24/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/02/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computerized network apparatus configured for enabling delivery of permitted digital content to one or more computerized user devices in a digital content distribution network, the computerized network apparatus comprising:

  • a data interface apparatus configured to communicate data with the one or more computerized user devices via the digital content distribution network;

    digital processor apparatus in data communication with the data interface apparatus; and

    storage apparatus in data communication with the digital processor apparatus, the storage apparatus configured to store at least one computer program thereon, the at least one computer program comprising a plurality of instructions which are configured to, when executed by the digital processor apparatus, cause the computerized network apparatus to;

    receive data indicative of at least one of a playlist or a manifest of digital content for delivery to a first computerized user device of the one or more computerized user devices;

    based at least in part on the receipt of the data indicative of the at least one of the playlist or the manifest of digital content;

    identify data indicative of a first location, the first location associated with the first computerized user device;

    identify data indicative of a future time of playback of the at least one of the playlist or the manifest of digital content at the first computerized user device; and

    identify that one or more digital content elements within the at least one of the playlist or the manifest of digital content are not permitted to be accessed by the first computerized user device at the future time of playback;

    based at least in part on the identification that one or more digital content elements within the at least one of the playlist or the manifest of digital content are not permitted to be accessed by the first computerized user device at the future time of playback;

    access stored relevance data, the stored relevance data correlating individual ones of a plurality of digital content with each of (i) temporal relevance data, and (ii) geographic relevance data;

    identify a first portion of the plurality of digital content, the first portion comprising individual digital content elements each having (i) first temporal relevance data and (ii) first geographic relevance data associated therewith, the first temporal relevance data compatible with the future time and the first geographic relevance data compatible with the first location; and

    provide one or more redirection links within the at least one of the playlist or the manifest, the one or more redirection links each configured to (i) enable access by the first computerized user device to one or more of the individual digital content elements of the first portion of the plurality of digital content, and (ii) disable access of the identified one or more digital content elements that are not permitted to be accessed by the first computerized user device at the future time of playback.

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