Third party paywall authentication system
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsFarman A. Syed, Ian J. Elseth, Martin J. Murrett, Michelle H. Gonzalez
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Abstract
The present technology provides a less burdensome mechanism to bring media items owned or licensed in the physical world into an account hosted by an electronic media provider. A specific use case deals with magazine subscriptions wherein the electronic media provider can send entity identifying information to a publisher clearinghouse that has subscription data for many different magazines. If the entity information sufficiently matches subscription information, the clearinghouse sends back data identifying magazines for which the entity is entitled to a digital copy, and these magazines become available to the user through the electronic media provider.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving, at a media distribution platform, a request for digital versions of non-digital media currently subscribed to by a media distribution platform user account;
- obtaining profile data corresponding to the media distribution platform user account identifying a user, the profile data stored at the media distribution platform;
- matching, at the media distribution platform, the profile data with subscription data, received from a clearinghouse database, including a non-digital media subscription for a third-party publisher;
- and
- upon a successful match, providing a digital version of the non-digital media on the media distribution platform, based on an access token obtained from the third-party publisher that validates access to the non-digital media subscription.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored therein instructions, which, when executed by a hardware processor, cause the hardware process to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, at a media distribution platform, a request for digital versions of non-digital media currently subscribed to by a media distribution platform user account;
- obtaining profile data corresponding to the media distribution platform user account identifying a user, the profile data stored at a media distribution platform;
- matching, at the media distribution platform, the profile data with subscription data, received from a clearinghouse database, including a non-digital media subscription for a third-party publisher;
- and
- upon a successful match, providing a digital version of the non-digital media on the media distribution platform, based on an access token obtained from the third-party publisher that validates access to the non-digital media subscription.
A system comprising:
- a memory storing profile data;
- and
- a processing device to:
- receive, at a media distribution platform, a request for digital versions of non-digital media currently subscribed to by a media distribution platform user account;
- obtain profile data corresponding to the media distribution platform user account identifying a user, the profile data stored at the media distribution platform;
- match, at the media distribution platform, the profile data with subscription data, received from a clearinghouse database, including a non-digital media subscription for a third-party publisher;
- and
- upon a successful match, provide a digital version of the non-digital media on the media distribution platform, based on an access token obtained from the third-party publisher that validates access to the non-digital media subscription.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.