Patent ID: 7356831
Filing Date: 2008-04-08
Classification: G06F,G06Q,G07F,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A jukebox system, comprising a server that stores a master library of audiovisual selections; a plurality of jukeboxes, each of which is operable to play the audiovisual selections received from the server at the request of a user; a communication system through which the server and the jukeboxes communicate; wherein the server is operable to define, for each individual jukebox, uses to be made by that jukebox of the audiovisual selections from the server by assigning to that jukebox a code or unique key, and wherein the server is further operable to verify, for any one of the jukeboxes, the authorized uses to which that jukebox may put a received selection; and further wherein the authorized uses correspond to various rights that third parties have in the audiovisual selections, the rights requiring by law or regulation payment of respective royalties for the authorized uses of the audiovisual selections; and further wherein the server maintains information on the authorized uses made by each of the jukeboxes and determines the amount of royalties due for each authorized use.