Patent ID: 8744486
Filing Date: 2014-06-03
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for delivering content to a requesting device over a content delivery network, the content being deliverable in only one or more restricted geographic regions and the requesting device being communicatively coupled to a cellular communications service provider via a cellular communications network, the apparatus comprising: a central processor unit (CPU), a computer readable memory and a computer readable storage media; first program instructions to receive a network identifier of the requesting device uniquely identifying the requesting device in the cellular communications network; second program instructions to transmit a verification message over the cellular communications network using the network identifier for receipt by the requesting device; third program instructions to receive, from the requesting device, an access control submission over the content delivery network; fourth program instructions to receive, from the cellular communications service provider, location information corresponding to a geographic location of the requesting device; and fifth program instructions, in response to a determination that the access control submission derives from the transmitted verification message and the location information indicates the requesting device is in one of the one or more restricted geographic regions, to deliver the content to the requesting device; wherein the verification message is a secret shared with the cellular communications service provider, and the location information is received from the cellular communications service provider in the access control submission via the requesting device, and wherein the location information and the verification message are encrypted by the cellular communications service provider using a public key corresponding to a private key for a provider of the content; and wherein the first, second, third, fourth and fifth program instructions are stored on the computer readable storage media for execution by the CPU via the computer readable memory.