Systems and methods for controlling the distribution and viewing of digital art and imaging via the internet

A method for storing digital content for display on a display device comprising a processing controller, a memory, and a display screen, the method comprising:

• providing at least one digital content item, configured to be displayed on a display screen of one or more display devices;
• providing a service cloud circuitry having a content service cloud including a communication controller, an interface server, and a service management system, said service cloud circuitry comprising said server, a memory, and a processor;
• storing and managing, by a secure storage system circuitry of said service circuitry, said at least one digital content item;
• communicating, by a communication controller circuitry of said service cloud circuitry, with the processing controller of the one or more display devices configured to display said at least one digital content item;
• controlling, by a digital media content ingestion engine circuitry of said service cloud circuitry, importation of said at least one digital content item to said secure storage system circuitry of said service cloud circuitry;
• controlling, by a provisioning engine circuitry of said service cloud circuitry, provisioning of said at least one digital content item on the one or more display devices;
• collecting, by a service management system circuitry of said service cloud circuitry, data reflecting the operational status and performance levels of the one or more display devices provisioned by said provisioning engine circuitry;
• interfacing, by a server of said service cloud circuitry, with an application running on a computer comprising a memory, a processor, and a user input device, for selection of said at least one digital content item for display on the one or more display devices;
• transferring, by an external content gateway of said service cloud circuitry, an authorized digital content item from an origination point outside of said service cloud circuitry to the one or more display devices via the internet;
• providing, by a live data feed gateway of said service cloud circuitry, content to the one or more display devices from one or more external sources outside of said service cloud circuitry;
• sending, by said communication controller circuitry in response to said selection of said at least one digital content item by said user input device, send said at least one digital content item to the display screen of the display device via the internet;
• the method further comprising analyzing, by said digital media content ingestion engine circuitry, said at least one digital content item for display on the one or more display devices;
• and
• wherein said digital media content ingestion engine circuitry comprises an ingestion workflow.