Patent ID: 11941089
Assignee: SR LABS, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 15:
16. A method comprising:
initiating presentation of a digital movie to an in-theatre digital projector or in-home movie accessing system in response to receiving a request to initiate the presentation;
detecting that a client-side computing device has been initially physically connected to the in-theatre digital projector or the in-home movie accessing system;
querying the in-theatre digital projector or in-home movie accessing system for a unique identifier of the in-theatre digital projector or the in-home movie accessing system;
receiving the unique identifier from the in-theatre digital projector or the in-home movie accessing system;
storing the unique identifier in a memory of the client-side computing device to assign the in-theatre digital projector or in-home movie accessing system as being authorized to operate with the client-side computing device to present digital movies received by the client-side computing device;
comparing the unique identifier to a stored unique identifier, yielding a comparison;
in response to determining, based on the comparison, that the received unique identifier matches the stored unique identifier:
initiating distribution of a stream of the digital movie for delivery from a remote content delivery system or via a distribution server; and
providing the stream of the digital movie to the in-theatre digital projector or the in-home movie accessing system.