Patent ID: 8458040
Filing Date: 2013-06-04
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for managing rights to content, comprising: receiving, at a server comprising one or more processors, a request for content, the request is received from a customer device and comprises a client identifier associated with the customer device and a content identifier associated with the content; receiving, at the server, access rights information from one or more rights locker devices associated with one or more content providers, each of the one or more rights locker devices is external to the server; identifying, by the server based upon the client identifier, a billing account associated with the customer device; identifying, by the server, a plurality of users associated with the billing account; determining, by the server, a set of one or more access rights based at least upon a portion of the access rights information, the set of one or more access rights comprising respective rights for each of the plurality of users; and determining, by the server based upon the set of one or more access rights, whether access to the content is authorized.