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US 9,286,446 B2Granted
Domain spanning applications
AssigneesSony Corporation, Sony Pictures Technologies Inc.
InventorRichard Berger
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Abstract
Managing and accessing media items, including: a plurality of domains configured to provide access to media items; a plurality of clients associated with the plurality domains, and providing a pathway for accessing the media items; and a spanning application configured to track and aggregate accessible media items from the plurality of domains based on authentication and registration information and associated rights of the plurality of clients and the plurality of domains, wherein the spanning application enables accessing of the media items across the plurality of domains.
Claims11
A system of managing and accessing media items, the system comprising:
- a plurality of domains configured to provide access to the media items;
- a plurality of client devices associated with the plurality of domains, and providing a pathway for accessing the media items;
- and
- a spanning application configured to track and aggregate accessible media items from the plurality of domains based on authentication and registration information and associated rights of a particular client device of the plurality of client devices,
- wherein the spanning application enables accessing of the media items across the plurality of domains for the particular client device by at least one of:
- (1) maintaining multiple user account and domain credentials;
- and (2) seamlessly removing itself and re-adding itself to a plurality of user accounts and the plurality of domains necessary to provide access to the media items for the particular client device;
- wherein a plurality of origins of the accessible media items accessed from the plurality of domains are transparent to the particular client device such that the origin of each accessible media item is indistinguishable from any particular domain;
- wherein the accessible media items are aggregated into a single view on the particular client device;
- wherein the single view includes a view of rights to the accessible media items from the plurality of domains;
- and
- wherein the view of rights to the accessible media items is based on rights granted to the particular client device and based on rights granted to a particular user account.
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A method of managing and accessing media items, the method comprising:
- tracking authentication and registration information and associated rights of a particular client device for accessing a plurality of accessible media items from a plurality of domains;
- aggregating the plurality of accessible media items from the plurality of domains based on the authentication and registration information and associated rights of the particular client device;
- and
- accessing the media items across the plurality of domains for the particular client device using a spanning application,
- wherein the spanning application enables accessing the media items across the plurality of domains by at least one of:
- (1) maintaining multiple user account and domain credentials;
- and (2) seamlessly removing itself and re-adding itself to a plurality of user accounts and the plurality of domains necessary to provide access to the media items for the particular client device;
- wherein a plurality of origins of the accessible media items accessed from the plurality of domains are transparent to the particular client device such that the origin of each accessible media item is indistinguishable from any particular domain;
- wherein the accessible media items are aggregated into a single view on the particular client device;
- wherein the single view includes a view of rights to the accessible media items from the plurality of domains;
- and
- wherein the view of rights to the accessible media items is based on rights granted to the particular client device and based on rights granted to a particular user account.
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A non-transitory tangible storage medium storing a computer program for managing and accessing media items, the computer program comprising executable instructions that cause a computer to:
- track authentication and registration information and associated rights of a particular client device for accessing a plurality of accessible media items from a plurality of domains;
- aggregate the plurality of accessible media items from the plurality of domains based on the authentication and registration information and associated rights of the particular client device;
- and
- access the media items across the plurality of domains for the particular client device using a spanning application,
- wherein the spanning application enables accessing the media items across the plurality of domains by at least one of:
- (1) maintaining multiple user account and domain credentials;
- and (2) seamlessly removing itself and re-adding itself to a plurality of user accounts and the plurality of domains necessary to provide access to the media items for the particular client device;
- wherein a plurality of origins of the accessible media items accessed from the plurality of domains are transparent to the particular client device such that the origin of each accessible media item is indistinguishable from any particular domain;
- wherein the accessible media items are aggregated into a single view on the particular client device;
- wherein the single view includes a view of rights to the accessible media items from the plurality of domains;
- and
- wherein the view of rights to the accessible media items is based on rights granted to the particular client device and based on rights granted to a particular user account.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.