METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SWITCHING SUBSCRIBER CONTENT
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention provide that a content provider itself provide subscription content to a device of a second type, rather than to a device of a first type. For example, the device of the second type may be a mobile telephone or the like, whilst the device of the first type may be a set—top box. By providing the content itself the content provider can keep track as to when it is providing content to the device of the second type, and further, in some embodiments, take action to prevent reproduction of the content at the device of the first type, such that whilst the user is viewing the subscriber content on the device of the second type, another user is not able to view the same content on the device of the first type. In order to provide such an arrangement, the content provider is preferably provided with suitable content encoding and streaming server apparatus, which is able to encode the content in a format appropriate for transmission to the device of the second type (such as, for example, transmission to a mobile device.
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42 Claims
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23. A method comprising:
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determining to transmit content to at least a first device; determining that the content is requested by a second device; determining to disable reproduction of the content by the first device; and determining to transmit the content to the second device. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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32. An apparatus comprising:
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at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code for one or more programs, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following, determine to transmit content to at least a first device; determine that the content is requested by a second device; determine to disable reproduction of the content by the first device; and determine to transmit the content to the second device. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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41. A computer-readable storage medium carrying one or more sequences of one or more instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause an apparatus to at least perform the following steps:
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determining to transmit content to a first device; determining that the content is requested by a second device; determining to disable reproduction of the content by the first device; and determining to transmit the content to the second device. - View Dependent Claims (42)
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