PROVIDING REMOTE ACCESS VIA A MOBILE DEVICE TO CONTENT SUBJECT TO A SUBSCRIPTION

• US 20130347025A1
• Filed: 11/30/2011
• Published: 12/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Prakash, Gyan, Poornachandran, Rajesh, Raja, Kannan G.
• Application Number:
  US13/996,007
• Publication Number:
  US 20130347025A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/25
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/10 Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16 ; Digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2541 Rights Management protecting software against unauthorised usage in a vending or licensing environment G06F21/10; security in data switching network management H04L41/28; security management or policies for network security H04L63/20; access security in wireless networks H04W12/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2543 Billing , e.g. for subscription services payment schemes, architectures or protocols G06Q20/00; e-commerce G06Q30/00; arrangements for billing for the use of broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/21
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25875 involving end-user authentication restricting access to computer systems by authenticating users using a predetermined code G06F21/33; arrangements for secret or secure communication including means for verifying the identity or authority of a user of the system H04L9/32; networks authentication protocols H04L63/08; authentication in wireless network security H04W12/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4181 for conditional access
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4227 Providing Remote input by a user located remotely from the client device, e.g. at work
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/632 using a connection between clients on a wide area network, e.g. setting up a peer-to-peer communication via Internet for retrieving video segments from the hard-disk of other client devices broadcast-related systems characterised by transmission among terminal devices H04H60/80; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104

Abstract

In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for accessing content subscription information from a secure storage of a mobile device, communicating the content subscription information to an authorization service of a content provider with a request to receive content, receiving in the mobile device an authorization from the content provider which includes a time bound identifier corresponding to a time bounded authorization to receive the content during a time bounded window, and receiving and outputting the content from the mobile device during the time bounded window. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

accessing content subscription information from a secure storage of a mobile device, the content subscription information associated with a content subscription of a user of the mobile device;

communicating the content subscription information from the mobile device to an authorization service of a content provider with a request to receive content subject to the content subscription;

receiving in the mobile device an authorization from the content provider, the authorization including a time bound identifier corresponding to a time bounded authorization to receive the content during a time bounded window; and

receiving the content and outputting the content via an output device associated with the mobile device during the time bounded window.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving the content from a set-top box associated with the user of the mobile device.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising storing the content in the set-top box during a broadcast of the content prior to the time bounded window.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising storing the content in the set-top box responsive to a request to store the content communicated from the mobile device to the set-top box.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the content provider is a multichannel video programming distributor.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is a smartcard including the content subscription information.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the output device associated with the mobile device is a connected television remote to a home of the user of the mobile device.

8. At least one computer accessible medium including instructions that when executed cause a system to:

receive identification information in an authorization service of a content provider for a content output device present at a location at which a subscriber having a content subscription with the content provider is temporarily located;

receive user profile information associated with the subscriber from a mobile device to seek authorization to output content subject to the content subscription from the content output device for a time bounded duration; and

responsive to authorization of the content output device by the system, enable communication of the content to the content output device so that the content can be output via the content output device during the time bounded duration.

9. The at least one computer accessible medium of claim 8, further comprising instructions to enable the system to communicate the content from a content service of the content provider to the content output device, wherein the content output device is separate from the mobile device.

10. The at least one computer accessible medium of claim 8, further comprising instructions to enable the system to receive the identification information with the user profile information, wherein the user profile information is maintained on a smartcard.

11. The at least one computer accessible medium of claim 8, further comprising instructions to enable the system to receive a request from the mobile device to record a content broadcast at a predetermined time on a set-top box of the subscriber located remotely from the subscriber.

12. The at least one computer accessible medium of claim 11, further comprising instructions to enable the system to communicate the request to the set-top box to enable the recording of the content broadcast after authentication of the mobile device and the request via the authorization service.

13. The at least one computer accessible medium of claim 11, further comprising instructions to enable the system to, after the content broadcast is recorded, receive a second request from the mobile device to cause the recorded content broadcast to be communicated from the set-top box to the content output device.

14. An apparatus comprising:

a processor to execute instructions;

a security engine implemented in hardware of the apparatus, the security engine including an authorization module to enable a user to request content subject to a subscription of the user via an authorization service of a content provider, and a sharing policy module to enable the user to designate at least one other device to receive the content subject to the subscription;

a secure storage to store a user subscription profile; and

an output device to output content received in the apparatus subject to the subscription, wherein the apparatus comprises a mobile device that is not a primary device for receiving the content and wherein the mobile device is permitted to output the content for a time bounded duration based on an authorization received from the authorization service of the content provider.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the apparatus is to receive the content from a set-top box associated with the user.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the apparatus is to send a request to record a content broadcast at a predetermined time on the set-top box, wherein the set-top box is located remotely from the user.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the apparatus is to communicate a second request to the set-top box to receive a communication of the recorded content broadcast from the set-top box.

18. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the security engine is to enable the output device to stream the content and to prevent storage of the content in a non-volatile storage of the mobile device.

19. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the security engine is to prevent output of the content via the output device outside the time bounded duration.

20. A system comprising:

a first server to perform authentication and authorization operations responsive to identification information received from a mobile device of a subscriber of a content provider having a content subscription, wherein the identification information is received with a request to receive content subject to the content subscription at a device remote from a principal residence associated with the content subscription;

a second server coupled to the first server to perform policy operations responsive to a communication from the mobile device, wherein the policy operations include access and update to policy information associated with the content subscription, including association of alternate content devices with the content subscription; and

a third server coupled to the first and second servers to provide the content subject to the content subscription to the remote device responsive to authorization by the first server based at least in part on the policy information and the identification information, wherein the policy information indicates that the remote device is an alternate content device associated with the content subscription.

21. The system of claim 20, wherein the first, second, and third servers are at a cloud-based location associated with the content provider.

22. The system of claim 20, wherein the first server is to enable a set-top box associated with the subscriber to communicate requested content to the mobile device responsive to authorization of the mobile device.

23. The system of claim 20, wherein the first server is to receive a second request from the mobile device to record a content broadcast at a predetermined time on a set-top box associated with the subscriber and communicate the second request to the set-top box to enable the recording of the content broadcast after authentication of the mobile device and the second request.

24. The system of claim 20, wherein the remote device is separate from the mobile device, and wherein the identification information includes security attribute information of the remote device, and the authentication of the remote device is further based on the security attribute information, and the provision of the content to the remote device is limited to a time bound duration.

25. (canceled)

26. (canceled)