Patent ID: 9693085
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
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 information identifying 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 or purchase of at least one of an ancillary product or ancillary content that is related to and distinct 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, information describing the at least one of an ancillary product or ancillary content, restricted to 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 at least one of an ancillary product or ancillary content prior to the earliest scheduled air date.