Patent ID: 9646292
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: G06Q

Claim:
1. A method for transmitting digital media content data to a point-of-transaction (POT) system, the method comprising: loading product data for a plurality of digital products into a catalog database, wherein the product data comprises activation location data and fulfillment location data for each of the plurality of digital products, a plurality of different digital rights management (DRM) schemes are imposed on the plurality of digital products, the activation location data corresponds to an authorization code provider computing system, and fulfillment location data for the plurality of digital products correspond to two or more different fulfillment providers computing systems; assigning a unique ID to each digital product in the catalog database; decoding data received from a POT system describing an order for a digital product at a digital activation broker computing system, wherein the order comprises a unique ID for the ordered digital product; loading product data for the digital product into the digital activation broker computing system, wherein loading the product data for the digital product into the digital activation broker computing system comprises loading the product data from the catalog database; requesting, by the digital activation broker computing system, authorization credential data from a corresponding system, indicated by the activation location data via a computer network; wherein the digital activation broker computing system is configured to request authorization credential data from a plurality of authorization code provider computing systems; receiving at the digital activation broker computing system the authorization credential data from the plurality of authorization code provider computing systems, wherein the credential data is formatted according to one of the plurality of different DRM schemes; and returning the authorization credential data and fulfillment location data corresponding to the digital product from the digital activation broker computing system to the POT system via the computer network in response to the order.