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US 8,286,229 B2Granted
Token-based content subscription
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsWilliam K. Bodin, David Jaramillo, Jesse W. Redman, Derral C. Thorson
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for token-based content subscription. Embodiments include receiving a request for content subscription; receiving from a user a subscription token; and delivering content to a device associated with the subscription token.
Claims24
A method for token-based content subscription, the method comprising:
- receiving, by a content provider a request for content subscription;
- receiving, by the content provider, a subscription token, the subscription token provided to a user by a content subscription service and including security information and content delivery information, the content delivery information including a preferred period for the content subscription, a frequency for the content subscription, a preferred sorting order for the content, and further including content presentation parameters that indicate a preference for presentation of subscription content to a device associated with the subscription token;
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- delivering, by the content provider, the content to the device associated with the subscription token, including:
- extracting from the subscription token the security information;
- extracting from the subscription token the content delivery information;
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- delivering the content to the device in accordance with the content delivery information and the security information, including periodically pushing content to the device.
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A system for token-based content subscription, the system comprising:
- a computer processor;
- a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions capable of:
- receiving, by a content provider a request for content subscription;
- receiving, by the content provider, a subscription token, the subscription token provided to a user by a content subscription service and including security information and content delivery information, the content delivery information including a preferred period for the content subscription, a frequency for the content subscription, a preferred sorting order for the content, and further including content presentation parameters that indicate a preference for presentation of subscription content to a device associated with the subscription token;
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- delivering, by the content provider, the content to the device associated with the subscription token, including:
- extracting from the subscription token the security information;
- extracting from the subscription token the content delivery information;
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- delivering the content to the device in accordance with the content delivery information and the security information, including periodically pushing content to the device.
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A computer program product for token-based content subscription, the computer program product embodied on a non-transmission computer-readable recording medium, the computer program product comprising:
- computer program instructions for receiving, by a content provider, a request for content subscription;
- computer program instructions for receiving, by the content provider, a subscription token, the subscription token provided to a user by a content subscription service and including security information and content delivery information, the content delivery information including a preferred period for the content subscription, a frequency for the content subscription, a preferred sorting order for the content, and further including content presentation parameters that indicate a preference for presentation of subscription content to a device associated with the subscription token;
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- computer program instructions for delivering, by the content provider, the content to a device associated with the subscription token, including:
- computer program instructions for extracting from the subscription token the security information;
- computer program instructions for extracting from the subscription token the content delivery information;
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- computer program instructions for delivering the content to the device in accordance with the content delivery information and the security information, including periodically pushing content to the device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.