US 8,818,902 B2Granted

Digital storage media dispensing device

AssigneeNCR Corporation

InventorsKeith A. Schiesser, Webb Morris

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Abstract

Methods and techniques are described to dynamically provide preloaded movies on digital storage devices that may be purchased or leased by a consumer on a self-service media content dispensing device, such as a kiosk. A media content dispensing device stores various media content obtained physically or via a network on a server at a dispensing device. When a request is received from a user to purchase or lease a particular title, the user may provide a blank storage device and exchange the blank storage device to receive the media content preloaded on a storage device provided by the dispensing device. The dispensing device will then store the title, or a different title, on the blank storage device provided by the user for purchase or lease by another to maintain inventory. The dispensing device may also change an existing preloaded storage device to a different title to maintain inventory.

Claims9

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving by a media dispensing device a request from a customer for a particular media content for lease or purchase from the media dispensing device;
receiving a request by the media dispensing device from the customer to exchange a first digital storage device provided by the customer which is blank for a second digital storage device not provided by the customer from the media dispensing device with the particular media content preloaded;
accepting the first digital storage device from the customer by the media dispensing device;
providing the second digital storage device not provided by the customer with the particular media content preloaded to the customer by the media dispensing device;
storing by the media dispensing device, on the first digital storage device provided by the customer, a second media content available for lease or purchase from the media dispensing device;
and
providing the first digital storage device with the second media content to a different customer.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/953,561Filed 24 Nov 2010
Published: US 2012/0130533 A124 May 2012
Granted: 26 Aug 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

G07F 7/00
Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate
G06F 21/10
Security arrangements for protecting computers, components thereof, programs or data against unauthorised activity: protecting distributed…
G06F 21/78
Protecting specific internal or peripheral components, in which the protection of a component leads to protection of the entire computer: to…
G06Q 10/087
Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management: inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling,…