Patent ID: 8190700
Filing Date: 2012-05-29
Classification: A63F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method for providing conditional access to electronic content, the method comprising acts of: providing, by a content provider computer, electronic content as a content data stream, to a plurality of users; providing for transmission of the content data stream, including the electronic content, to each of the plurality of users, through a network; providing, to each of the plurality of users, authorization information associated with the electronic content; inserting, by the content provider computer, the authorization information into the electronic content in the content data stream; controlling, by the content provider, access to the electronic content; allowing access to the electronic content in the content data stream in response to an indication by the authorization information in the content data stream that each of the plurality of users is authorized to use the electronic content; and wherein at least one of the plurality of users is provided authorization information via an Alternative Method of Entry (AMOE).