US 10,257,556 B2Granted

Streaming media authorization based on call signs

AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.

InventorsJeromey Russell Goetz, Christopher Shingee Park, Varadarajan Gopalakrishnan

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Abstract

Disclosed are various embodiments for determining whether a client device is authorized to receive media content based at least in part on the call signs of broadcast stations that the client device is able to receive. A computing device receives a broadcast station identifier and a program identifier from a client computing device. The computing device determines that the client computing device is authorized to access media content identified by the program identifier based at least in part on the broadcast station identifier. Finally, the computing device streams the media content to the client computing device in response to determining that the client computing device is authorized to access the media content.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method, comprising:

receiving, by at least one computing device, a request for content from a client computing device, the request comprising a broadcast station identifier of a broadcast station within range of the client computing device, a set of media access control (MAC) addresses, a broadcast definition indicator based at least in part on a definition format, and a program identifier;
identifying, by the at least one computing device, a program record associated with the content, the program record comprising location restriction metadata associated with the content;
determining, by the at least one computing device, that client computing device is authorized to access the content based at least in part on the location restriction metadata and at least one of the broadcast station identifier, the set of MAC addresses, the broadcast definition indicator, or the program identifier;
converting, by the at least one computing device, the content to a format to be streamed to the client computing device in response to determining that the client computing device is authorized to access the content;
and
streaming, by the at least one computing device, the content to the client computing device in response to determining that the client computing device is authorized to access the content.

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A system, comprising:

at least one computing device comprising a processor and a memory;
and
machine readable instructions stored in the memory that, when executed by the processor, cause the at least one computing device to at least:
receive a request for content from a client computing device, the request comprising a broadcast station identifier of a broadcast station within range of the client computing device, a set of media access control (MAC) addresses, a broadcast definition indicator based at least in part on a definition format, and a program identifier;
identify a program record associated with the content, the program record comprising location restriction metadata associated with the content;
determine that the client computing device is authorized to access the content based at least in part on the location restriction metadata and at least one of the broadcast station identifier, the set of MAC addresses, the broadcast definition indicator, or the program identifier;
convert the content to a format to be streamed to the client computing device in response to determining that the client computing device is authorized to access the content;
and
stream the content to the client computing device in response to determining that the client computing device is authorized to access the content.

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A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying a program executable in at least one computing device, the program comprising machine readable instructions that, when executed, configure the at least one computing device to at least:

receive a request for content from a client computing device, the request comprising a broadcast station identifier of a broadcast station within range of the client computing device, a set of media access control (MAC) addresses, a broadcast definition indicator based at least in part on a definition format, and a program identifier;
identify a program record associated with the content, the program record comprising location restriction metadata associated with the content;
determine that the client computing device is authorized to access the content based at least in part on the location restriction metadata and at least one of the broadcast station identifier, the set of MAC addresses, the broadcast definition indicator, or the program identifier;
convert the content to a format to be streamed to the client computing device in response to determining that the client computing device is authorized to access the content;
and
stream the content to the client computing device in response to determining that the client computing device is authorized to access the content.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/782,113Filed 12 Oct 2017 · continuation
Priority: 12 Jun 2015
Published: US 2018/0035146 A11 Feb 2018
Granted: 9 Apr 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

H04N 21/266
Management operations performed by the server for facilitating the content distribution or administrating data related to end-users or client…:…
H04H 60/14
Arrangements for device control with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time; Arrangements for control of…:…
H04H 60/51
For identifying locations: of receiving stations
H04N 21/4524
Management of client data or end-user data: involving the geographical location of the client