Method and system to monitor delivery of content to a content destination
First Claim
1. A media delivery network, which includes:
- a media server to store content to deliver to a content consumer upon demand; and
a digital rights server to store content consumer rights defining access rights of a content consumer with respect to content, and content owner rights defining access policies to the content as established by a content owner, wherein the delivery of the content to the content consumer is timed and the access rights of the content consumer are updated in response to a delivered time during which the content was delivered to the content consumer.
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Abstract
A media delivery network is provided which includes a digital rights server and a media server to store content to deliver to a content consumer upon demand. The digital rights server stores content consumer rights defining access rights of a content consumer with respect to content, and content owner rights defining access policies to the content as established by a content owner. In one embodiment, the delivery of the content to the content consumer is timed and the access rights of the content consumer are updated in response to a delivered time during which the content was delivered to the content consumer. The invention extends to a method of controlling the delivery of content from a media server to a content destination or consumer and to a machine-readable medium for storing a set of instructions to execute any one or more methods of the invention. In one embodiment, further delivery may be denied after a certain position within the media has been reached.
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36 Claims
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1. A media delivery network, which includes:
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a media server to store content to deliver to a content consumer upon demand; and
a digital rights server to store content consumer rights defining access rights of a content consumer with respect to content, and content owner rights defining access policies to the content as established by a content owner, wherein the delivery of the content to the content consumer is timed and the access rights of the content consumer are updated in response to a delivered time during which the content was delivered to the content consumer. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method of controlling the delivery of content from a media server that stores content to deliver to a content consumer upon demand, the method including:
- defining, at a digital rights server, access rights of a content consumer with respect to content, and content owner rights defining access policies to the content as established by a content owner;
timing delivery of the content to the content consumer; and
updating the access rights of the content consumer in response to a delivered time during which the content was delivered to the content consumer. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
- defining, at a digital rights server, access rights of a content consumer with respect to content, and content owner rights defining access policies to the content as established by a content owner;
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28. A method of monitoring the exercise of digital rights by a content consumer, which includes:
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receiving a session request from a network operator server, the session request being associated with delivery of content from a media server to the content consumer;
communicating session data to the network operator server, the session data being for communication to the media server; and
receiving a delivery request from the media server, the delivery request including the session data;
timing delivery of the content to the content consumer; and
updating access rights of the content consumer in response to a delivered time during which the content was delivered to the content consumer. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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35. A media delivery network, which includes:
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media server means for storing content to distribute to a content consumer upon demand; and
digital rights server means for storing content consumer rights, defining access rights of a content consumer with respect to content, and content owner rights defining access policies to the content as established by a content owner, wherein the delivery of the content to the content consumer is timed and the access rights of the content consumer are updated in response to a delivered time during which the content was delivered to the content consumer.
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36. A machine-readable medium storing a sequence of instructions that, when executed by a machine, cause machine to:
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define, at a digital rights server, access rights of a content consumer with respect to content, and content owner rights defining access policies to the content as established by a content owner;
time delivery of the content to the content consumer; and
update the access rights of the content consumer in response to a delivered time during which the content was delivered to the content consumer.
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