Patent ID: 8335727
Filing Date: 2012-12-18
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for providing digital content on demand (CoD), comprising: providing, from a CoD management computer processor, an immediately deliverable digital CoD offering including a single user purchase option and a group purchase option, wherein said group purchase option includes as a criterion a minimum plurality of user devices separately accepting said CoD offering; receiving, at the CoD management computer processor, information sufficient to indicate acceptance of said group purchase option of said CoD offering by each of said minimum plurality of user devices; generating, from a CoD group ticket management computer processor that is associated with or part of the CoD management computer processor, a group ticket, said group ticket comprising computer-readable information sufficient to identify said CoD offering and to identify each of said minimum plurality of user devices; and generating, from the CoD management computer processor, an instruction to permit said CoD to be immediately deliverable on demand from a CoD server to the single user under the single user purchase option, and to each of said minimum plurality of user devices under the group purchase option.