Method for grating customers access to a product

• US 20030144939A1
• Filed: 12/17/2002
• Published: 07/31/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nagravision SA (Kudelski SA)
• Original Assignee: Nagravision SA (Kudelski SA)
• Inventors: Stransky, Philippe, Engestrom, Sven
• Granted Patent: US 7,664,706 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/36
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/123 Shopping for digital content
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/06 Asset management; Financial planning or analysis
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4331 Caching operations, e.g. of an advertisement for later insertion during playback
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4781 Games
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6334 for authorisation, e.g. by transmitting a key wireless communications network key management H04W12/04; wireless communications network access security H04W12/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6377 directed to server one-way streaming services wherein the source is controlled by the destination H04L65/613
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/165 Centralised control of user terminal subsequent to an upstream request signal H04N7/17345; Registering at central by two-way working H04N7/17309
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17354 in an intermediate station common to a plurality of user terminals

Abstract

This invention concerns a method for granting customers access to a product or a set of products, comprising the steps of:

providing by the customer through a secured communication network a code to a registration center, said code being unique,

transmitting said code from the registration center to an authorization center,

retrieving the identifier of the product or the set of products from said code, by requesting a data base or calculating said identifier,

transmitting by the authorization center an authorization code to the customer terminal, said authorization code allowing access to the product or the set of products.

Claims

1. Method for granting customers access to a product or a set of products, comprising the steps of:

providing by the customer through a secured communication network a code to a registration center, said code being unique and associated to the product of the set of products, said code being generated by an authorization center,

transmitting said code from the registration center to an authorization center,

retrieving the identifier of the product or the set of products from said code, by requesting a data base or calculating said identifier,

transmitting by the authorization center an authorization code to the customer terminal, said authorization code allowing access to the product or the set of products,

marking said code as used in the authorization center so that further presentation of this code will be denied.

2. Method according to claim 1, characterized in that, the product is a video product, an audio products or data such as program, stock quotation, game.

3. Method according to claim 2, characterized in that, the authorization code grant access to the product immediately, on a scheduled basis or on costumer'"'"'s request.

4. Method according to claim 3, characterized in that, the product is already stored in the customer terminal and the authorization code authorize immediate or later use of the product.

5. Method according to claim 3, characterized in that, the authorization code allows the download of the product in the customer terminal for immediate or later use of the product

6. Method according to claim 1, characterized in that, the product is the access to limited areas and the authorization code grants the access for a predetermined period of time to said areas.

7. Method according to claim 1, characterized in that, the product is a service related to transport and the authorization code grants access to this service.