Patent ID: 9462312
Filing Date: 2016-10-04
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a server associated with a service provider comprising one or more computers from a customer device associated with a customer, a purchase request to purchase broadband content or a broadband service; determining whether the purchase request is to purchase the broadband content or the broadband service; directing, by the server in real-time, the completion of a transaction associated with the received purchase request; altering, by the server if the purchase request is to purchase the broadband content, access rights associated with the broadband content, wherein altering access rights includes notifying a conditional access system (“CAS”) controller to modify the access rights and notifying the CAS controller to communicate access credentials or access codes to the customer device and a second customer device; altering, by the server if the purchase request is to purchase the broadband service, a feature set associated with the broadband service; enabling, by the server based at least in part on the completion of the transaction, customer access to the broadband content or the broadband service; determining, by the server, that the second customer device associated with the customer is capable of accessing the broadband content or the broadband service; enabling, by the server based at least in part on completion of the transaction, customer access to the broadband content or the broad-band service via the second customer device; and transmitting, by the server to the second customer device, an indication that the broadband content or broadband service is to be made available to the second customer device from the service provider, wherein the indication allows the second customer device to receive, from the server, the broadband content or the broadband service purchased by the first computing device.