Patent ID: 9288552
Filing Date: 2016-03-15
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. 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; and 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.