US 10,257,301 B1Granted

Systems and methods providing a drive interface for content delivery

AssigneeMiMedia LLC

InventorsChristopher Giordano, Gordon C. Mackenzie, III, Mel Reyes, Nick Faulkner, Jourdan Urbach

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Abstract

Systems and methods which provide a drive interface for delivery of various content to consumers of the content are described. Embodiments provide access to content shared by a content provider using an interface emulating a disk drive local to the consumer. In operation the user accesses content shared by a content provider using a drive interface content delivery platform of embodiments herein as if the user were accessing content on a local drive. The drive interface of embodiments is branded in correspondence to the content or content provider. Drive interface content delivery platforms of embodiments employ a “push” type content delivery technique whereby content is actively delivered to the consumers under the control or at the initiation of the content provider. Embodiments may additionally provide push delivery of content through web based interfaces and application interfaces.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

providing a content provider content delivery drive interface to a processor-based system of a content provider having one or more consumer content delivery drive interface associated therewith, wherein the content provider content delivery drive interface provides emulation of a drive local to the content provider processor-based system;
providing a consumer content delivery drive interface of the one or more consumer content delivery drive interface to a user device of a consumer of the content, wherein the consumer content delivery drive interface provides emulation of a drive local to the user device, the emulation including local storage of content at the user device, and wherein the consumer content delivery drive interface is branded to identify a source of the content;
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providing pushed delivery of content from the content provider to the consumer by the content provider introducing the content to the content provider content delivery drive interface and the content being pushed to the consumer content delivery drive interface, wherein, based on available resources of the user device, the pushed delivery of the content provides one of the content and information for accessing the content to the consumer content delivery drive interface.

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A system comprising:

computer executable logic operable to provide a content provider content delivery drive interface at a processor-based system of a content provider, wherein the content provider content delivery drive interface provides emulation of a drive local to the content provider processor-based system;
computer executable logic operable to provide a consumer content delivery drive interface at a user device of a consumer of the content, wherein the consumer content delivery drive interface provides emulation of a drive local to the user device, the emulation including local storage of content at the user device;
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a network-based mass storage system in communication with the content provider content delivery drive interface and the consumer content delivery drive interface, wherein the network-based mass storage system is operable to provide pushed delivery of content from the content provider to the consumer when the content provider introduces the content to the content provider content delivery drive interface, and wherein, based on available resources of the user device, the pushed delivery of the content provides one of the content and information for accessing the content to the consumer content delivery drive interface.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/430,242Filed 10 Feb 2017 · continuation
Priority: 15 Mar 2013
Granted: 9 Apr 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

H04L 67/55
Network services: push-based network services
H04L 67/02
Protocols: based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
H04L 67/04
Protocols: specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
H04L 67/06
Protocols: specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]