US 12,501,091 B2Granted

Systems and methods for optimizing content viewing using digital rights of multiple users

AssigneeAdeia Guides Inc.

InventorsKevin Bruce Lenhart, Sean Matthews, Benjamin Holms Maughan

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Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed herein for enabling multiple users' digital rights to be applied as needed to access media while those users are present to consume media. In particular, a media guidance application may receive a selection of a media asset and determine that the user equipment device does not allow access to the media asset. In response, the media guidance application may identify all the users consuming content from that user equipment device and retrieve digital rights for each user. The media guidance application may compare the digital rights of each user with digital rights required to access the media asset. The media guidance application may, based on the comparison, identify a set of digital rights (e.g., for another user present) that enable access to the media asset, and use those digital rights to access the media asset for consumption.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving a request to access a content item from a first media source via a first device at a first physical position;
retrieving a first set of digital rights data corresponding to the first device;
determining that the first set of digital rights data does not authorize access to the content item from the first media source;
based at least in part on determining that the first set of digital rights data does not authorize access to the content item from the first media source, identifying a second device at a second physical position proximate to the first physical position of the first device;
receiving a second set of digital rights data corresponding to the second device based at least in part on having identified the second device as being proximate to the first device;
determining that the second set of digital rights data does not authorize access to the content item from the first media source;
based at least in part on determining that the second set of digital rights data does not authorize access to the content item from the first media source, determining that the second set of digital rights data authorizes access to the content item from a second media source that is different from the first media source;
and
accessing the content item from the second media source using the second set of digital rights data.

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A system comprising:

communications circuitry configured to receive a request to access a content item from a first media source via a first device at a first physical position;
and
control circuitry coupled to the communications circuitry, wherein the control circuitry is configured to:
retrieve a first set of digital rights data corresponding to the first device;
determine that the first set of digital rights data does not authorize access to the content item from the first media source;
based at least in part on determining that the first set of digital rights data does not authorize access to the content item from the first media source, identify a second device at a second physical position proximate to the first physical position of the first device;
receive, via the communications circuitry, a second set of digital rights data from the second device based at least in part on having identified the second device as being proximate to the first device;
determine that the second set of digital rights data does not authorize access to the content item from the first media source;
based at least in part on determining that the second set of digital rights data does not authorize access to the content item from the first media source, determine that the second set of digital rights data authorizes access to the content item from a second media source that is different from the first media source;
and
access the content item from the second media source using the second set of digital rights data.

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A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising one or more instructions that, when executed by control circuitry, cause the control circuitry to:

receive a request to access a content item from a first media source via a first device at a first physical position;
retrieve a first set of digital rights data corresponding to the first device;
determine that the first set of digital rights data does not authorize access to the content item from the first media source;
based at least in part on determining that the first set of digital rights data does not authorize access to the content item from the first media source, identify a second device at a second physical position proximate to the first physical position of the first device;
receive a second set of digital rights data from the second device;
determine that the second set of digital rights data does not authorize access to the content item from the first media source;
based at least in part on determining that the second set of digital rights data does not authorize access to the content item from the first media source, determine that the second set of digital rights data authorizes access to the content item from a second media source that is different from the first media source;
and
access the content item from the second media source using the second set of digital rights data.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/204,489Filed 1 Jun 2023 · continuation
Priority: 24 Apr 2018
Published: US 2023/0353804 A12 Nov 2023
Granted: 16 Dec 2025
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

H04N 21/2541
Management at additional data server, e.g. shopping server, rights management server: rights Management
H04N 21/2543
Management at additional data server, e.g. shopping server, rights management server: billing , e.g. for subscription services
H04N 21/25875
Management of end-user data: involving end-user authentication
H04N 21/44218
Monitoring of end-user related data: detecting physical presence or behaviour of the user, e.g. using sensors to detect if the user is leaving the…

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Application15/961,232Parent of this continuation · filed 24 Apr 2018
Application17/097,933Parent of this continuation · filed 13 Nov 2020
US 10,869,074 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 15 Dec 2020
US 2023/0353804 A1Pre-grant publication · published 2 Nov 2023
US 11,711,559 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2019/0327509 A1Published application
US 2021/0120293 A1Published application
US 12,501,091 B2This patent

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