Patent ID: 9438955
Filing Date: 2016-09-06
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for use by a media device including a computing platform having a processor, a display, a memory, and a rendering application in the memory for execution by the processor, the method comprising: playing, using the rendering application executed by the processor, a video on the display, the video having a plurality of protected segments and a plurality of gating segments; rendering, using the rendering application executed by the processor, while playing the video on the display, a timeline of the video on the display, the timeline showing a representation of a temporal progression of the video; inhibiting a first segment of the plurality of protected segments from being played until a first corresponding segment of the plurality of gating segments is played: and visually distinguishing the first segment of the plurality of protected segments from a second segment of the plurality of protected segments with a second corresponding segment of the plurality of gating segments that has been played.