Patent ID: 6993508
Filing Date: 2006-01-31
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. An Internet Box Office (IBO) system adapted to vend multimedia digital content via a computer network to a consumer, the IBO system comprising: a content delivery networking (CDN) infrastructure of the computer network, the CDN infrastructure including deployment enhancements that pre-download and distribute the multimedia digital content over the network from a digital content management system; a viewing system coupled to the deployment enhancements of the CDN infrastructure and external to an environment associated with the deployment enhancements, the viewing system capable of displaying the multimedia digital content to the consumer; a digital rights management (DRM) system coupled to the viewing system, the DRM system functioning to authorize the multimedia digital content for viewing by the consumer; and the digital content management system configured to store the multimedia digital content in encrypted form, the digital content management system interacting with the deployment enhancements of the CDN infrastructure to schedule delivery of the encrypted content to the viewing system upon authorization by the DRM system, and wherein that dynamically decrypts the encrypted content based on authorization received from the DRM.