Patent ID: 9553921
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method for receiving content via a network, the method comprising: establishing, by a network device, a connection with a server via the network; storing, by the network device, a currency balance on a recording medium of the network device; receiving, by the network device, the content from the server according to a streaming process such that parts of the content that have already been received from the server are written onto the recording medium, by the network device, before all remaining parts of the content have been received from the server; receiving, by the network device from the server, a command to update the currency balance by a credit amount associated with the received content; decreasing, by the network device according to the command, the stored currency balance by the credit amount; and storing, by the network device according to the command, the decreased currency balance on the recording medium.