Content delivery system and method
OwnerBrian Jeffrey Fogg, Mark Anthony McCabe +2inventors
InventorsBrian Jeffrey Fogg, Mark Anthony McCabe, Elissa Lee, Christopher O. Scales
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Abstract
A multimedia content delivery system for consumers who have acquired a product or article by chance or intent, which provides access to a digital experience. The digital experience can include static, interactive and continuously updated multimedia content, digital transactions and similar digital content. The consumer can mount the article on an interface device, which creates a link between the article and the digital experience. The digital experience can be accessed locally or downloaded from the Internet and, thereafter, displayed or played back to the consumer.
Claims22
A content delivery system comprising:
- means defining a product or an optional distributable article that is an auxiliary of said product, connected directly or by means of a relay to a terminal, for recording information for the purpose of specifying content, said terminal being capable of downloading said content based on said information, and displaying or playing back said content.
A content delivery system comprising:
- a content-providing server that delivers content via the Internet when said content-providing server is accessed;
- a terminal for downloading requested content from said content-providing server, and for storing information for the purpose of specifying content;
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- a coupling means for coupling said terminal and said article, said terminal, when connected to said article capable of accessing the content-providing server based on information stored in said article, the associated content being downloaded and displayed or played back by the system's playback/display means.
An apparatus for accessing content via an open network from a content delivery source comprising:
- a memory device for recording and storing intrinsic information;
- a detection device for detecting interconnection between said memory device and said output terminal;
- a reading device for reading intrinsic information stored in said memory device;
- a specific information generating device that generates specific information specifying said content from intrinsic information read by said reading device;
- a reception device that receives content associated with specific information generated by said specific information generating device on access of said delivery source in response to detection of the interconnection by said detection device;
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- a playback/output device for displaying or playing output received content from said reception device.
A method for accessing content via an open network from a content delivery source, said method comprising:
- detecting a memory device;
- reading intrinsic information stored in said memory device to generate specific information which specifies content from said intrinsic information;
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- receiving content corresponding to said specific information when said delivery source is accessed.
A recording medium that includes a program logic executable by an output terminal that receives content on access of a delivery source via an open information network, said program logic when executed causes said terminal to:
- detect a memory read;
- read intrinsic information stored in said memory;
- generate specific information that specifies said content from said intrinsic information;
- receive content corresponding to said specific information when said delivery source is accessed;
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- output said content.
An apparatus for accessing a digital experience comprising:
- a main unit including a memory device;
- an input device operable to read intrinsic information stored on said memory device;
- and
- a host device operably coupled to said input device to receive said intrinsic information and provide preselected multimedia content in response.
A system for accessing multimedia content comprising:
- an input device configured to receive a first access key including a memory device;
- a host processor operably coupled to said input device and configured to receive intrinsic information stored on said memory device;
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- a content source operable to provide said multimedia content to said host processor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.