Network content management
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1. A method for managing a content distribution environment in which events are transmitted among clients, the clients including sending clients and receiving clients, comprising:
- receiving a request for a ticket from a requesting client, the ticket to include an event summary identifying a set of events for which the requesting client is eligible;
responsive to receiving said ticket request, deriving the event summary from a hierarchical database comprising a plurality of groups, wherein each group can be assigned one or more clients and one or more events, and wherein the hierarchical database further comprises a directed acyclic group structure in which clients assigned to a particular group are eligible for events assigned to the particular group as well as events assigned to all ancestor groups of the particular group; and
sending the ticket including said event summary to the requesting client.
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Abstract
One embodiment of an inventive networking environment includes clients called sending clients because they send network content through a network, and clients called receiving clients because they receive the network content from the sending clients through the network. Both sending clients and receiving clients are “clients” in that they rely on a management server to orchestrate the secure transfer of information from sending clients to receiving clients.
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1. A method for managing a content distribution environment in which events are transmitted among clients, the clients including sending clients and receiving clients, comprising:
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receiving a request for a ticket from a requesting client, the ticket to include an event summary identifying a set of events for which the requesting client is eligible;
responsive to receiving said ticket request, deriving the event summary from a hierarchical database comprising a plurality of groups, wherein each group can be assigned one or more clients and one or more events, and wherein the hierarchical database further comprises a directed acyclic group structure in which clients assigned to a particular group are eligible for events assigned to the particular group as well as events assigned to all ancestor groups of the particular group; and
sending the ticket including said event summary to the requesting client. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A machine readable storage medium having stored thereon machine executable instructions, execution of the machine readable instructions to implement a method for managing a content distribution environment in which events are transmitted among clients, the clients including sending clients and receiving clients, the method comprising:
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receiving a request for a ticket from a requesting client, the ticket to include an event summary identifying a set of events for which the requesting client is eligible;
responsive to receiving said ticket request, deriving the event summary from a hierarchical database comprising a plurality of groups, wherein each group can be assigned one or more clients and one or more events, and wherein the hierarchical database further comprises a directed acyclic group structure in which clients assigned to a particular group are eligible for events assigned to the particular group as well as events assigned to all ancestor groups of the particular group; and
sending the ticket including said event summary to the requesting client. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A management server apparatus for managing a content distribution environment in which events are transmitted among clients, the clients including sending clients and receiving clients, comprising:
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a port to receive a request for a ticket from a requesting client, the ticket to include an event summary identifying a set of events for which the requesting client is eligible;
a processing unit to derive, responsive to receipt of said ticket request, the event summary from a hierarchical database comprising a plurality of groups, wherein each group can be assigned one or more clients and one or more events, and wherein the hierarchical database further comprises a directed acyclic group structure in which clients assigned to a particular group are eligible for events assigned to the particular group as well as events assigned to all ancestor groups of the particular group; and
a sending unit to send the ticket including said event summary to the requesting client.
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16. In an Internet-based content distribution environment in which events are transmitted among clients, the clients including sending clients and receiving clients, a method for facilitating retrieval of an event summary for a client, the event summary identifying a set of events for which that client is eligible, the method comprising:
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receiving a request for the event summary;
responsive to receiving said event summary request, deriving the event summary from a hierarchical database comprising groups, wherein each group can be assigned one or more clients and one or more events, and wherein the hierarchical database comprises a directed acyclic group structure in which clients assigned to a particular group are eligible for events assigned to that particular group as well as for events assigned to all ancestor groups thereof; and
sending the event summary to the client. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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