Personal content server apparatus and methods
First Claim
1. A method of delivering content over a network to a user mobile device, comprising:
- enabling a user to register a user mobile device with a content source, said user mobile device registration occurring substantially at a server entity of said network, and said user mobile device registration comprising said server entity storing user mobile device identification information;
receiving a request initiated by said user for access to content, said request comprising at least said user mobile device identification information;
identifying one or more services that said user mobile device is entitled to receive from said network based at least in part on identifying a subscription level of said user mobile device within said network via said user mobile device identification information;
determining whether the user mobile device is entitled to access the requested content using the one or more services; and
when it is determined that said user mobile device is entitled to access said content, providing access to said content.
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Abstract
Personal content server apparatus and associated methods that allow a user (e.g., cable or satellite network subscriber) to access content, such as a video program, from a location outside the subscriber'"'"'s network. In one embodiment, a personal content server streams the content to the subscriber over a network connection from the local e.g., (subscription) network to a remote network upon authorization by a content manager process. Various access, business or operational rules are applied depending on the content and delivery mode; e.g., to live video broadcast, video-on-demand (VOD), or archived content from the subscriber'"'"'s digital video recorder (DVR) or networked PVR. Secondary content (e.g., promotions, advertisements, etc.) can also be selectively replaced if desired in order to make the remotely delivered content more appropriate to the remote user'"'"'s context.
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30 Claims
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1. A method of delivering content over a network to a user mobile device, comprising:
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enabling a user to register a user mobile device with a content source, said user mobile device registration occurring substantially at a server entity of said network, and said user mobile device registration comprising said server entity storing user mobile device identification information; receiving a request initiated by said user for access to content, said request comprising at least said user mobile device identification information; identifying one or more services that said user mobile device is entitled to receive from said network based at least in part on identifying a subscription level of said user mobile device within said network via said user mobile device identification information; determining whether the user mobile device is entitled to access the requested content using the one or more services; and when it is determined that said user mobile device is entitled to access said content, providing access to said content. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A non-transitory computer readable apparatus having at least one computer program thereon, said computer program configured to:
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establish user account information relating to a user; receive from a user mobile device a request for content, said request identifying said content and said user mobile device from which said request is received; transmit at least a portion of said user account information and said information identifying said content to a remote entity; receive from said remote entity (i) a determination of whether said user mobile device is associated with said user account, and (ii) a determination, based at least in part on a subscription level, of whether said user mobile device is entitled to access said content in an operator managed content delivery network via said user mobile device; and when it is determined that said user mobile device is entitled to access said requested content in said operator managed content delivery network, cause access to be provided to said requested content to said user mobile device, said access being via a wireless link. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A method of delivering content over a wireless network, comprising:
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receiving a request from a subscriber to purchase access to content, said receiving comprising receiving subscriber-specific access information, said request comprising information at least identifying an account associated with said subscriber; enabling said subscriber to purchase said access to said content; creating a record of said purchase, said record comprising an identification of said content and said information at least identifying said account, said record being stored in a first database; communicating between said first database and a second database, said second database comprising a plurality of records correlating one or more user mobile devices to said subscriber account, said first and second databases further being in communication with a third database correlating said subscriber-specific access information to said subscriber account; receiving a request to access said content from one of said one or more user mobile devices associated with said subscriber account, said request to access comprising information identifying at least one of;
(i) a requesting device, and/or (ii) said subscriber account;determining, based at least in part on said communicating, whether said subscriber account associated with said purchase record of said content is correlated to said request to access; and when it is determined that said subscriber account associated with said purchase record is associated with said request to access, causing access to said content to be provided to said one user mobile device via said wireless network. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. An apparatus for providing access to content to at least one client device, said apparatus comprising:
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first apparatus configured to receive a user request for purchase of content, said receiving comprising receiving user identification information, said user identification information being associated with a plurality of wireless mobile client devices; second apparatus configured to receive a request for access to said purchased content from a first wireless mobile client device; and a processor configured to run at least one computer program thereon, said at least one computer program comprising a plurality of instructions which are configured to; determine whether said first wireless mobile client device is one of said plurality of client devices associated with said user which purchased the content, and is entitled to access said purchased content in a content delivery network; and if it is determined that said first wireless mobile client device is entitled to access said purchased content in said content delivery network, cause access to be provided to said purchased content to said first client device via a wireless network. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30)
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