Method of delivering personalized streaming content via satellite radio

• US 20070097893A1
• Filed: 11/03/2005
• Published: 05/03/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/03/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Rodriguez, Herman, Smith, Newton, Spinac, Clifford
• Application Number:
  US11/266,667
• Publication Number:
  US 20070097893A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/310
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/18582 Arrangements for data linking, i.e. for data framing, for error recovery, for multiple access

Abstract

A method is disclosed for delivering personalized content from a content provider system to a satellite communication receiver user. The user selects content from the content provider system and specifies Internet or satellite delivery. If the user specifies Internet delivery, then the content provider system transmits the selected content to the user via the Internet. However, if the user specifies satellite delivery, then the content provider system acquires the user'"'"'s satellite communication receiver ID code from the user. The content provider system then transfers the selected content and the user'"'"'s ID code to a satellite transmitter of a satellite radio provider system. The satellite transmitter transmits the selected content and ID code via a satellite to the user'"'"'s satellite communication receiver. If the ID code received by the user'"'"'s satellite communication receiver matches the ID code of this satellite communication receiver, then the satellite communication receiver stores, and allows to the user to access, the selected content.

Claims

1. A method of providing content to a satellite communication receiver, the method comprising:

receiving, by a content provider system, a request for selected content and an ID code associated with a particular satellite communication receiver to receive the selected content;

providing, by the content provider system, the selected content and ID code to a satellite communication transmitter;

transmitting, by the satellite communication transmitter, the selected content and ID code via a satellite to the satellite communication receiver; and

receiving, by the satellite communication receiver, the selected content and ID code from the satellite.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising, the satellite communication receiver allowing access to the selected content if the ID code received by the satellite communication receiver matches the ID code associated with the satellite communication receiver.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising displaying, by the satellite communication receiver, an indication that the selected content is ready for use.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving a request for selected content further comprises receiving the request for selected content via the Internet.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising querying a user via the Internet, by the content provider system, to determine if the user desires the selected content to be transmitted to the user via the satellite communication transmitter.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the satellite communication transmitter transmits the selected content as streaming content.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the streaming content comprises one of audio content, video content and audio/video content.

8. A method of providing content to a satellite communication receiver, the method comprising:

receiving selected content and an ID code, by a satellite communication transmitter, from a content provider system, the ID code being associated with a particular satellite communication receiver;

transmitting, by the satellite communication transmitter, the selected content and ID code via a satellite; and

receiving, by a satellite communication receiver, the selected content and ID code from the satellite.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising the satellite communication receiver allowing access to the selected content if the ID code received by the satellite communication receiver matches the ID code associated with the satellite communication receiver.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising displaying, by the satellite communication receiver, an indication that the selected content is ready for use.

11. The method of claim 8 wherein the satellite communication transmitter transmits the selected content as streaming content.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein the streaming content comprises one of audio content, video content and audio/video content.

13. A method of providing content to a user comprising:

querying the user, by a content provider system, to determine if the user desires delivery of selected content via satellite or via the Internet;

transmitting, by the content provider system, the selected content to the user via the Internet responsive to the user selecting satellite delivery; and

transmitting, by the content provider system, to a satellite communication transmitter the selected content and an ID code of a satellite communication receiver, if the content provider system determines that the user chooses satellite transmission of the selected content.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising transmitting, by the satellite communication transmitter, the selected content and the ID code via a satellite to the satellite communication receiver.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising receiving, by the satellite communication receiver, the selected content and ID code from the satellite, the satellite communication receiver allowing access to the selected content if the ID code received by the satellite communication receiver corresponds to an ID code assigned to the satellite communication receiver.

16. The method of claim 16, further comprising storing, by the satellite communication receiver, the selected content in a memory in the satellite communication receiver.

17. The method of claim 17, further comprising displaying, by the satellite communication receiver, an indication that the selected content is ready for use.

18. A communication system comprising:

a communication satellite;

a satellite communication receiver that receives selected content from the satellite, the satellite communication receiver having an ID code associated therewith;

a content provider system that receives a request for selected content and the ID code associated with the satellite communication receiver; and

a satellite communication transmitter, coupled to the content provider system, that receives the selected content and ID code from the content provider system, the satellite communication transmitter transmitting the selected content and ID code to the communication satellite, the communication satellite transmitting the selected content and ID code to the satellite communication receiver.

19. The communication system of claim 18, wherein the satellite communication receiver receives the selected content and ID code, and the satellite communication receiver allows access to the selected content if the ID code received by the satellite communication receiver matches the ID code associated with the satellite communication receiver.

20. The communication system of claim 18, wherein the satellite receiver includes a display that displays an indication that the selected content is ready for use.