LICENSING MEDIA CONSUMPTION USING DIGITAL CURRENCY
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1. A method comprising:
- receiving, by a licensing agent, an additional feature license request from a user to acquire update a license to include an additional feature associated with a licensed digital media content on a user device, wherein the digital media content was previously licensed, wherein the licensing of the digital media content was facilitated by the licensing agent, using digital currency tokens;
determining, by the licensing agent, a number of digital currency tokens required to license the additional feature; and
facilitating an exchange, by the licensing agent, of an additional feature license update to the prior license, to be issued to the user device in exchange for the determined number of digital currency tokens if sufficient digital currency tokens are present in a user account associated with the user, wherein the digital currency tokens include digital currency tokens the user paid for or digital currency tokens the user otherwise earned.
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus for issuing licenses to allow end users to consume digital media content on a user device by responding to licensing requests by determining the number of digital currency tokens required to license the requested consumption and then issuing the license if the end user'"'"'s account has a sufficient number of digital currency tokens. The end user may further use the digital currency tokens to purchase new features, which are internal and/or external to the digital media content. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed.
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23 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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receiving, by a licensing agent, an additional feature license request from a user to acquire update a license to include an additional feature associated with a licensed digital media content on a user device, wherein the digital media content was previously licensed, wherein the licensing of the digital media content was facilitated by the licensing agent, using digital currency tokens; determining, by the licensing agent, a number of digital currency tokens required to license the additional feature; and facilitating an exchange, by the licensing agent, of an additional feature license update to the prior license, to be issued to the user device in exchange for the determined number of digital currency tokens if sufficient digital currency tokens are present in a user account associated with the user, wherein the digital currency tokens include digital currency tokens the user paid for or digital currency tokens the user otherwise earned. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A media licensing server comprising:
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a processor; and a mass storage device including a plurality of programming instructions designed to implement a licensing module adapted to operate the processor to; receive a request from a user to acquire an update to a license to include an additional feature associated with a licensed digital media content on a user device; determine a number of digital currency tokens required to license the additional feature; verify that a user account associated with the user has a sufficient number of digital currency tokens to redeem the license; and issue a digital license to the user device for the additional feature in exchange for the number of digital currency tokens if the digital currency tokens are present in the user account, wherein the digital currency tokens include digital currency tokens the user paid for or digital currency tokens the user otherwise earned. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A client device comprising:
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a processor; and a mass storage device including a plurality of programming instructions adapted to implement a client-side digital media licensing module to operate the processor to; receive a user request to update a digital media license to further acquire an additional feature associated with a licensed digital media content; determine a number of digital currency tokens required to obtain the license; and debit the number of digital currency tokens required to license the requested media from a local cache of digital currency tokens. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23)
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