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Managed mobile media platform systems and methods

  • US 9,256,717 B2
  • Filed: 03/02/2012
  • Issued: 02/09/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/02/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system comprising:

  • a mobile computing device provided by a vertical solution provider for use by a customer of an industry service provider to access one or more services provided by the industry service provider; and

    a mobile media platform provider subsystem operated by the vertical solution provider and configured to communicate with the mobile computing device, the mobile media platform provider subsystem implemented in one or more computing devices separate from the mobile computing device;

    whereinthe mobile media platform provider subsystem and the mobile computing device are configured to provide a mobile media platform managed by the vertical solution provider and configured to facilitate the use of the mobile computing device by the customer to access the one or more services provided by the industry service provider,the mobile computing device is locked down by computer-readable code installed on the mobile computing device by the mobile media platform provider subsystem toblock access, by the mobile computing device, to one or more of code, applications, and features of the mobile computing device, andpermit access, via a network, to remotely hosted content only from sources controlled by the mobile media platform provider subsystem, the remotely hosted content only from sources controlled by the mobile media platform provider subsystem comprising one or more of an application hosted by the mobile media platform provider subsystem for remote access by the mobile computing device and an application provided by the mobile media platform provider subsystem for installation on the mobile computing device, andthe mobile media platform provider subsystem is configured tomanage an identity of the customer of the industry service provider byregistering the customer with the mobile media platform provider subsystem,provisioning credentials for the customer, andmaintaining an access log that includes information related to one or more access events associated with the customer, the information related to the one or more access events associated with the customer including information related to a historical proximity of the mobile computing device to a mobile phone associated with the customer during the one or more access events, the mobile computing device being separate from the mobile phone associated with the customer, andselectively grant the mobile computing device access to the one or more services provided by the industry service provider based at least in part on the credentials for the customer and the information related to the historical proximity of the mobile computing device to the mobile phone associated with the customer during the one or more access events.

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