Method and distribution channel for creating ancillary revenue streams from related media content
AssigneeWarner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
InventorsLisa Gregorian, Craig Hunegs
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Abstract
A method for creating revenue for content related to a broadcast program and a related subscription distribution channel and web page. The method includes providing a subscription distribution channel that is accessible by a user, obtaining the content related to the broadcast program, and making the content available to the user via the subscription distribution channel.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising a processor coupled to a memory and to a network interface, the memory holding instructions that when executed by a processor cause a computer to perform the operations of:
- serving, by the computer to at least one client over a computer network, a webpage including a list of episodes of an audio-video program, wherein at least one of the episodes has not yet been published;
- serving, by the computer to the at least one client over the computer network, in at least one of the webpage or in a second webpage, a link enabling access to ancillary recorded audio-video content that is related to and different from the at least one of the episodes that has not yet been published;
- publishing, by the computer to the at least one client over the computer network, the ancillary recorded audio-video content having access restricted to a list of identified members prior to an earliest scheduled air date of the at least one of the episodes that has not yet been published;
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- enabling exclusive access for ones of the members, by the computer via the computer network, to the ancillary recorded audio-video content prior to the earliest scheduled air date.
A method, comprising:
- serving, by a computer to at least one client over a computer network, a webpage including a list of episodes of an audio-video program, wherein at least one of the episodes has not yet been published;
- serving, by the computer to the at least one client over the computer network, in at least one of the webpage or in a second webpage, a link enabling access to ancillary recorded audio-video content that is related to and different from the at least one of the episodes that has not yet been published;
- publishing, by the computer to the at least one client over the computer network, the ancillary recorded audio-video content having access restricted to a list of identified members prior to an earliest scheduled publication date of the at least one of the episodes that has not yet been published;
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- enabling online exclusive access for ones of the members, by the computer via the computer network, to the ancillary recorded audio-video content prior to the earliest scheduled publication date.
An apparatus, comprising:
- means for serving a webpage including a list of episodes of an audio-video program, wherein at least one of the episodes has not yet been published;
- means for serving a link enabling access to ancillary recorded audio-video content that is related to and different from the at least one of the episodes that has not yet been published, the link being in at least one of the webpage or in a second webpage;
- means for publishing the ancillary recorded audio-video content with access restricted to a list of identified members prior to an earliest scheduled publication date of the at least one of the episodes that has not yet been published;
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- means for enabling online exclusive access for ones of the members to the ancillary recorded audio-video content prior to the earliest scheduled publication date.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.