Patent ID: 9602488
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A method for determining a right to consume content, comprising: storing content, wherein a user of a user device has a user right to consume the content at a first time when the content is stored; receiving, by an entitlement server, a request for playback of the content at a second time from the user device; determining, by the entitlement server, at the second time, that the user does not have the user right to consume the content at the second time; determining, by the entitlement server, at the second time, that the user had the user right to consume the content at the first time, independent of the user right to consume the content at the second time; and providing the content to the user device at the second time, based on the determination that the user had the user right to consume the content at the first time, wherein the content is configured for presentation by the user device.