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Digital media distribution system and method

  • US 8,843,947 B2
  • Filed: 11/16/2012
  • Issued: 09/23/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/23/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A system comprising:

  • a source of digital media recordings;

    wherein said source of digital media recordings is accessible via a communications network and stores in a database memory and makes available for purchase a plurality of digital media recordings;

    a mobile communications device associated with a user, wherein said mobile communications device has an operating system and is for wireless communication and comprisesa processor,a display,a digital media player application that is pre-installed in the mobile communications device before the mobile communications device is provided to the user;

    a memory, andan input;

    an account associated with the user of said mobile communications device, wherein said account is accessible to the user using said mobile communications device, and wherein said account comprises a directory of a plurality of digital media recordings that have been obtained by the user;

    wherein said source of digital media recordings processes a request, received from said mobile communications device, to purchase a digital media recording, wherein said request to purchase said digital media recording is input via said mobile communications device by the user of said mobile communications device;

    wherein, when said digital media recording is purchased from said source, said source of digital media recordings makes said purchased digital media recording available for transmission to said mobile communications device;

    wherein, said system does not transmit, at the time said digital media recording is purchased from said source, said purchased digital media recording to said mobile communications device for either (i) play;

    or (ii) complete storage and subsequent play of said purchased digital media recording in said mobile communications device;

    wherein, when said digital media recording is purchased from said source, said system identifies said purchased digital media recording in said directory of obtained digital media recordings in said account of the user;

    wherein, said source of digital media recordings receives from said mobile communications device, via a communications interface initiated subsequent to said purchase of said digital media recording and by the user using the mobile communications device, a selection to transmit to said mobile communications device said purchased digital media recording that was previously purchased by the user using said mobile communications device and was identified by said system in said account of the user in the directory of digital media recordings obtained by the user;

    wherein, based on said selection to transmit said purchased digital media recording to the mobile communications device of the user, said source of digital media recordings accesses in said database memory said digital media recording that was purchased by the user and transmits said purchased digital media recording to said mobile communications device of the user;

    wherein said mobile communications device wirelessly receives said purchased digital media recording and stores said purchased digital media recording in said memory of said mobile communications device; and

    wherein said purchased digital media recording stored in said memory of said mobile communications device is available for play in said mobile communications device with said pre-installed digital media player application.

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