Method and system to grant remote access to video resources

• US 8,386,316 B1
• Filed: 07/15/2008
• Issued: 02/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/15/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ZING Communications Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Monsoon Multimedia Incorporated
• Inventors: Dagman, Vadim
• Primary Examiner(s): Hamilton, Lalita M
• Application Number:
  US12/173,700
• Time in Patent Office: 1,687 Days
• Field of Search: 705/35, 705 144- 1449
• US Class Current: 705/14.49
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements

Abstract

A method and system to control at least one remote video resource access system. A first embodiment is a method to operate a remote video resource access system. The method includes publishing an access link on a website to a video resource of a grantor; detecting activation of the access link by a prospective grantee; obtaining the prospective grantee identity from a website user file to determine if the prospective grantee should be a grantee; providing an advertising opportunity to a prospective advertiser regarding the prospective grantee; and granting the prospective grantee access to the video resource of the grantor, within one or more limits optionally imposed by the grantor on the scope of the access being offered. A second embodiment is a remote video resource access system. The system includes a module to publish an access link on a website to a video resource of a grantor; a module to detect activation of the access link by a prospective grantee; a module to obtain the prospective grantee identity from a website user file to determine if the prospective grantee should be a grantee; a module to provide an advertising opportunity to a prospective advertiser regarding the prospective grantee; and a module to grant the prospective grantee access to the video resource of the grantor, within one or more limits optionally imposed by the grantor on the scope of the access being offered. These embodiments can be applied in several wired and wireless communication applications, even combinations of wired and wireless technologies including, but not limited to, IEEE 802.16 wireless applications.

Claims

1. A method to operate a remote video resource access system, comprising:

publishing an access link on a website to a video resource of a grantor;

detecting, by the remote video resource access system, activation of the access link by a prospective grantee;

obtaining the prospective grantee identity from a website user file to determine if the prospective grantee should be a grantee;

determining, by the remote video resource access system, if the prospective grantee will have downloading access to the access link without requiring any payment from the prospective grantee or without the prospective grantee being subject to any advertising;

determining, by the remote video resource access system, if the prospective grantee must provide payment for downloading access to the access link and collecting payment from the prospective grantee before providing downloading access to the access link;

determining, by the remote video resource access system, if the prospective grantee will be subject to advertising and if so then providing an advertising opportunity to a prospective advertiser regarding the prospective grantee; and

granting the prospective grantee video downloading access to the video resource of the grantor, within one or more limits imposed by the grantor on the scope of the video downloading access being offered, without permanent and inescapable association of an advertisement to the video resource of the grantor, giving the prospective grantee a choice of allowing or rejecting advertising to be shown during the access to the video resource of the grantor, using one or more data processing systems specifically programmed with software to implement these functions.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

giving a credit to the grantor for providing the access link.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

deducting from a credit balance of the grantee during access to the video resource.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

providing an advertising opportunity to an advertiser, with advertising based on a factor chosen from the list of;

an available information about the prospective grantee, the subject matter of the access link, the geographical location of the prospective grantee, the geographical location of the grantor, or a combination of one or more of the preceding factors.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

publishing information about the video resource being offered by the grantor, the location, and one or more limits imposed by the grantor on the scope of access being offered.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the website is a social networking website.

7. A method to operate a remote video resource access system, comprising:

publishing an access link on a website to a video resource of a grantor;

detecting, by the remote video resource access system, activation of the access link by a prospective grantee;

obtaining the prospective grantee information from a file to determine if the prospective grantee should be a grantee; and

determining, by the remote video resource access system, if the prospective grantee will have downloading access to the access link without requiring any payment from the prospective grantee or without the prospective grantee being subject to any advertising;

determining, by the remote video resource access system, if the prospective grantee must provide payment for downloading access to the access link and collecting payment from the prospective grantee before providing downloading access to the access link; and

determining, by the remote video resource access system, if the prospective grantee will be subject to advertising and if so then granting the prospective grantee video downloading access to the video resource of the grantor, within one or more limits imposed by the grantor on the scope of the video downloading access being offered, without permanent and inescapable association of an advertisement to the video resource of the grantor, giving the prospective grantee a choice of allowing or rejecting advertising to be shown during the access to the video resource of the grantor, using one or more data processing systems specifically programmed with software to implement these functions.

8. The method of claim 7 further comprising:

giving a credit to the grantor for providing the access link.

9. The method of claim 7 further comprising:

deducting from a credit balance of the grantee during access to the video resource.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the credit balance of the grantee is composed of at least one credit obtained from being a grantor of an access link on a website.

11. The method of claim 7 further comprising:

providing an advertising opportunity to an advertiser, with advertising based on a factor chosen from the list of;

an available information about the prospective grantee, the subject matter of the access link, the geographical location of the prospective grantee, the geographical location of the grantor, or a combination of one or more of the preceding factors.

12. The method of claim 7 further comprising:

publishing information about the video resource being offered by the grantor, the location, and one or more limits optionally imposed by the grantor on the scope of access being offered.

13. A remote video resource access system, comprising:

a processor;

an access link publication module to publish an access link on a website to a video resource of a grantor;

an access activation module to detect, by the remote video resource access system, activation of the access link by a prospective grantee;

an identification module to obtain the prospective grantee identity from a website user file to determine if the prospective grantee should be a grantee;

a first determination module to determine, by the remote video resource access system, if the prospective grantee will have downloading access to the access link without requiring any payment from the prospective grantee or without the prospective grantee being subject to any advertising;

a second determination module to determine, by the remote video resource access system, if the prospective grantee must provide payment for downloading access to the access link and collecting payment from the prospective grantee before providing downloading access to the access link;

a third determination module to determine, by the remote video resource access system, if the prospective grantee will be subject to advertising and if so then activating an advertising decision module to provide an advertising opportunity to a prospective advertiser regarding the prospective grantee; and

an access decision module to grant the prospective grantee video downloading access to the video resource of the grantor, within one or more limits optionally imposed by the grantor on the scope of the video downloading access being offered, without permanent and inescapable association of an advertisement to the video resource of the grantor, giving the prospective grantee a choice of allowing or rejecting advertising to be shown during the access to the video resource of the grantor, using one or more data processing systems specifically programmed with software to implement these modules.

14. The system of claim 13 further comprising:

a module to give a credit to the grantor for providing the access link.

15. The system of claim 13 wherein the access decision module deducts a charge from a credit balance of the grantee during access to the video resource.

16. The system of claim 13 wherein the advertising decision module provides an advertising opportunity to an advertiser, with advertising based on a factor chosen from the list of:

an available information about the prospective grantee, the subject matter of the access link, the geographical location of the prospective grantee, the geographical location of the grantor, or a combination of one or more of the preceding factors.

17. The system of claim 13 wherein the access link publication module publishes information about the video resource being offered by the grantor, the location, and one or more limits optionally imposed by the grantor on the scope of access being offered.

18. The system of claim 13, wherein the website is a social networking website.

19. A method to operate a remote video resource access system, comprising:

publishing an access link on a website to a video resource of a grantor;

publishing information about the video resource being offered by the grantor, the location, and one or more limits optionally imposed by the grantor on the scope of access being offered;

detecting, by the remote video resource access system, activation of the access link by a prospective grantee;

obtaining the prospective grantee information from a file to determine if the prospective grantee should be a grantee;

determining, by the remote video resource access system, if the prospective grantee will have downloading access to the access link without requiring any payment from the prospective grantee or without the prospective grantee being subject to any advertising;

determining, by the remote video resource access system, if the prospective grantee must provide payment for downloading access to the access link and collecting payment from the prospective grantee before providing downloading access to the access link; and

determining, by the remote video resource access system, if the prospective grantee will be subject to advertising and if so then granting the prospective grantee video downloading access to the video resource of the grantor, within one or more limits optionally imposed by the grantor on the scope of the video downloading access being offered, without permanent and inescapable association of an advertisement to the video resource of the grantor, giving the prospective grantee a choice of allowing or rejecting advertising to be shown during the access to the video resource of the grantor, using one or more data processing systems specifically programmed with software to implement these functions.

20. A non-transitory machine-readable medium having machine-executable instructions to operate at a remote video resource access system, comprising:

a module having one or more machine-executable instructions to publish an access link on a website to a video resource of a grantor;

a module having one or more machine-executable instructions to detect, by the remote video resource access system, activation of the access link by a prospective grantee;

a module having one or more machine-executable instructions to obtain the prospective grantee identity from a website user file to determine if the prospective grantee should be a grantee;

a module having one or more machine-executable instructions to determine, by the remote video resource access system, if the prospective grantee will have downloading access to the access link without requiring any payment from the prospective grantee or without the prospective grantee being subject to any advertising;

a module having one or more machine-executable instructions to determine, by the remote video resource access system, if the prospective grantee must provide payment for downloading access to the access link and collecting payment from the prospective grantee before providing downloading access to the access link;

a module having one or more machine-executable instructions to determine, by the remote video resource access system, if the prospective grantee will be subject to advertising;

a module having one or more machine-executable instructions to provide an advertising opportunity to a prospective advertiser regarding the prospective grantee; and

a module having one or more machine-executable instructions to grant the prospective grantee video downloading access to the video resource of the grantor, within one or more limits optionally imposed by the grantor on the scope of the video downloading access being offered, without permanent and inescapable association of an advertisement to the video resource of the grantor, using one or more data processing systems specifically programmed with software to implement these modules.