APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR ENSURING DELIVERY OF GEOGRAPHICALLY RELEVANT CONTENT
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Abstract
Apparatus and methods for ensuring delivery of geographically relevant content to IP-enabled user devices associated with a content distribution network. In one embodiment, the network (or designated content source) determines a geographic context or location of the user device, and uses this information to manage the packaging and delivery of content thereto so as to obey blackout restrictions and/or provide content which is relevant to the geographic context/location. In one variant, the user device comprises a mobile device such as a tablet computer or smartphone, and the content is delievered thereto over either a managed or unmanaged network infrastructure.
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46 Claims
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25. A method of delivering temporally relevant digital content to one or more computerized user devices in data communication with a digital content distribution network, the method comprising:
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receiving data relating to a first request for first digital content from a first of the one or more computerized user devices; accessing temporal relevance data stored at a network storage device, the temporal relevance data comprising data relating to individual ones of a plurality of digital content, the first digital content being one of the plurality of digital content and having first temporal relevance data associated therewith; determining, based at least in part on (i) the first temporal relevance data and (ii)data indicative of a then-current time, that access of the first digital content by the first of the one or more computerized user devices is not permitted; based at least in part on the determination, identifying alternate digital content; enabling the first of the one or more computerized user devices to access the alternate digital content. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. A computerized network apparatus configured for delivery of temporally permitted digital content to one or more computerized user devices of a digital content delivery network, the computerized network apparatus comprising:
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a data interface interface configured to communicate data with the one or more computerized user devices via the digital content delivery network; digital processor apparatus in data communication with the data interface; and storage apparatus in data communication with the digital processor apparatus, the storage apparatus configured to store at least one computer program thereon, the at least one computer program comprising a plurality of instructions which are configured to, when executed by the digital processor apparatus, cause the computerized network apparatus to; receive data indicative of a request for insertion of second digital content into first digital content rendered at a first of the one or more computerized user devices; identify data indicative of a first time associated with the first of the one or more computerized user devices; based at least in part on the receipt of the data indicative of the request and the data indicative of the first time; access temporal relevance data stored at a network storage device, the temporal relevance data comprising data relating to individual ones of a plurality of digital content; identify at least one of the plurality of digital content having a first temporal relevance associated therewith, the first temporal relevance compatible with the first time; and enable the first of the one or more computerized user devices to access the at least one of the plurality of digital content having the first temporal relevance. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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41. A computerized network apparatus configured for delivery of temporally and geographically correlated digital content computerized user devices in a digital content distribution network, the computerized network apparatus comprising:
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a data interface configured to communicate data with at least a first computerized user device via the digital content distribution network; digital processor apparatus in data communication with the data interface; and storage apparatus in data communication with the digital processor apparatus, the storage apparatus configured to store at least one computer program thereon, the at least one computer program comprising a plurality of instructions which are configured to, when executed by the digital processor apparatus, cause the computerized network apparatus to; receive data indicative of a request for digital content from the first computerized user device; based at least in part on the data indicative of the request for digital content; identify data indicative of a first time and data indicative of a first location, each the data indicative of the first time and the data indicative of the first location associated with the first computerized user device; and access stored relevance data, the stored relevance data correlating individual ones of a plurality of digital content with each of (i) a temporal relevance, and (ii) a geographic relevance; and based at least in part on the data indicative of the first time and the data indicative of the first location; identify a first portion of the plurality of digital content, the first portion comprising individual digital content elements each having (i) a first temporal relevance and (ii) a first geographic relevance associated therewith, the first temporal relevance compatible with the first time and the first geographic relevance compatible with the first location; and enable access by the first computerized user device to only the individual digital content elements of the first portion of the plurality of digital content. - View Dependent Claims (42, 43, 44, 45, 46)
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