Secured media distribution system and method
AssigneeDuvon Corporation
InventorsBenedict Ow, Andrew Platter, Dmitry Kogosov, Richard Stiles
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Abstract
A media distribution system provides controlled distribution of media owned by various parties hosted on a local media access device. The media access device may store temporary media, such as rented or leased media, on a separate provider controlled storage partition. This gives the media provider control over rented or leased media even though it is locally hosted. The media access device can download media from providers at various predefined times so as to limit its use of bandwidth.
Claims20
A media access device comprising:
- one or more communication devices configured to receive rented or purchased media from a media provider at one or more predefined times;
- a storage device having at least one provider managed partition and at least one user managed partition, wherein the rented or purchased media is stored in the provider managed partition while user media is stored in the user managed partition;
- one or more output terminals configured to transmit media from the storage device to one or more client devices for presentation;
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- a processor configured to receive one or more instructions from the media provider, wherein the one or more instructions define use and access restrictions for the rented or purchased media.
A media distribution system comprising:
- a media provider configured to distribute rented or purchased media;
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- a media access device comprising:
- provider managed storage configured to store the rented or purchased media;
- user managed storage configured to store user media, wherein the provider managed storage and user managed storage are separate;
- one or more communication devices configured to receive the rented or purchased media from the media provider via at least one wide area network;
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- a processor configured to receive one or more instructions from the media provider, wherein the one or more instructions define use and access restrictions for the rented or purchased media.
- wherein the media provider remotely controls addition and removal of the rented or purchased media in the provider managed storage, and the user controls addition and removal of user media in the user managed storage.
A method for providing media with a media access device comprising:
- receiving media at the media access device;
- determining if the media is provider media or user media;
- storing provider media in a provider media partition and storing user media in a user media partition, wherein the provider media partition and the user media partition are separate partitions;
- adding or removing the provider media based on one or more instructions from a media provider;
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- adding or removing the user media based on one or more instructions from a user;
- wherein access to the provider media is provided based on use and access restrictions defined by the media provider.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.