Patent ID: 9467726
Filing Date: 2016-10-11
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method of provisioning multi-dimensional rule based entitlement, the method comprising: receiving within a headend and at a policy management module first conditions and rules for content from a service provider or a third party device; generating, for a point of presence device of a customer, a policy for entitlement and usage of content including: merging conditions and rules of a plurality of policies including the first conditions and rules to generate the policy for entitlement and usage of content based on a predetermined hierarchy of the plurality of policies, wherein rules and conditions of the policy for entitlement and usage of content are multi-dimensional to include a customer dimension, a point of presence device dimension, and a provider dimension, and generating a configuration file including a plurality of conditions or condition based parameters; presenting an offer for the content to the customer via the point of presence device; receiving an acceptance signal indicating acceptance of the offer from the point of presence device; enforcing the policy for entitlement and usage of content according to the configuration file; subsequent to receiving the acceptance signal, updating a record of the customer for the content at the service provider; subsequent to updating the record, determining a billing status of the customer and a classification of the customer and generating an authorization signal to authorize access to the content based on the billing status, the classification, and whether the plurality of conditions or parameters of the configuration file are satisfied; subsequent to updating the record, generating a conditional access packet in response to the authorization signal; and transmitting the conditional access packet from the headend to the point of presence device, wherein the point of presence device accesses the content from a content locker based on the conditional access packet, and wherein the content locker is allocated to the customer and is separate from the point of presence device.