Method and system for movie distribution

• US 20080109858A1
• Filed: 11/06/2006
• Published: 05/08/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Francesco Maria Dominedo
• Original Assignee: Francesco Maria Dominedo
• Inventors: Dominedo, Francesco Maria
• Application Number:
  US11/593,242
• Publication Number:
  US 20080109858A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/87
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41415 involving a public display, viewable by several users in a public space outside their home, e.g. movie theatre, information kiosk
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47211 for requesting pay-per-view content payment schemes payment architectures or payment protocols G06Q20/00, G07F
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8541 involving branching, e.g. to different story endings
• 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 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

A method and an associated system for distributing movie contents among the public, comprising the steps of: (a) freely distributing a plurality of first movie contents via a service provider connected to a distribution net; (b) distributing, upon payment of a fee, a plurality of second movie contents via said provider, which second movie contents sequentially follow said first movie contents according to a movie plot; and (c) distributing a third movie content via movie theatre(s), which third movie content corresponds to the end of the movie according to said movie plot, said steps (a), (b) and (c) not being necessarily performed sequentially (FIG. 1).

Claims

1. A method for distributing movie contents among the public, comprising the steps of:

(a) freely distributing one or more first movie contents via a service provider connected to a distribution net;

(b) distributing, upon payment of a fee, one or more second movie contents via said provider, which one or more second movie contents sequentially follow said one or more first movie contents according to a movie plot; and

(c) distributing a third movie content via movie theatre(s), which third movie content corresponds to the end of the movie according to said movie plot,

said steps (a), (b) and (c) not being necessarily performed sequentially.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said one or more first movie contents are a plurality of movie contents one following sequentially the other according to said movie plot.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein said one or more second movie contents are a plurality of movie contents one following sequentially the other according to said movie plot.

4. The method according to claim 3, which provides for the distribution of fourth movie contents via movie theatre(s), each of said fourth movie contents being interposed between one second movie content and the subsequent one according to said movie plot.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein said provider is selected in a group comprising an Internet provider and a mobile phone provider.

6. A system for distributing movie contents, comprising:

service provider means for freely distributing one or more first movie contents, said provider means being connected to a distribution net; and

fee-payment means, associated with said provider means for distributing one or more second movie contents, sequentially following said one or more first movie contents according to a movie plot.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein said provider means is selected in a group comprising an Internet provider and a mobile phone provider.