Patent ID: 9749421
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method for enabling delivery of media content for a first subscriber already registered with a telephony service provider, comprising: receiving, at a call processing system, a first message from a user device associated with the first subscriber of the telephony service provider to a second subscriber identifier associated with a content service, to establish a real time communication session with the content service after registration with the telephony service provider, wherein the first message includes a first subscriber identifier and information identifying the content to be streamed; determining that the first subscriber is authorized to access the content; sending, subsequently after receiving the first message, from the call processing system, a second message directed to the second subscriber identifier associated with the content service to establish the real time communication session between the user device and the content service; and establishing the real time communication session between the user device and the content service via the call processing system to begin streaming the content, wherein the information identifying the content comprises a phone number uniquely identifying the content service and at least one alphanumeric code for uniquely identifying the content.