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US 2016/0080942 A1Published application
Location-based regulation of access
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorsGilbert G. Weigand, Scott J. Levine
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Abstract
Generally, access to content may be regulated by receiving a content request initiated at a jukebox for access to a content selection, identifying a jukebox location corresponding to a location of the jukebox, determining a permissible location for rendering the content selection, relating the jukebox location to the permissible location, and enabling the content request when the permissible location supports access to the content selection from the jukebox location.
Claims1
A method of managing of enabling a wireless device access to content on a host, the method comprising:
- receiving, from a wireless device and across a wireless communications network, a content request from an application on the wireless device that administers a content regulation system;
- receiving, in association with the content request and from the wireless device, a coordinate location for the wireless device from the application on the wireless device that administers the content regulation system;
- determining whether the wireless device is permitted to access content associated with the content request;
- enabling the wireless device to access the content;
- identifying, based on the coordinate location, a permissible location for the wireless device;
- and
- configuring, using the permissible location, the content regulation system so that the content may be accessed by the application within the permissible location.
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