Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/US7734779B1/en
Timestamp: 2018-06-22 07:54:23
Document Index: 14313163

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US7734779B1 - Password protection system and method - Google Patents
US7734779B1
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This application is related to, and claims priority from, provisional patent application Ser. No. 60/711,657, filed on Aug. 25, 2005, entitled “A Password Protection System and Method”, and is fully incorporated herein by reference.
With respect to the management of mandatory records required by 18 U.S.C. §2257, 18 U.S.C. §2257A, and 28 CFR Part 75 et seq., producers of certain materials are required to create and maintain copies of certain records pertaining to depictions subject to the aforesaid regulations. This imposes a burden on such “producers”, as that term is defined in 28 CFR Part 75.1, and on other persons and entities that “produce”, as that term is defined in 18 U.S.C. §2257 (h) (“Producers”), such sexually explicit materials, such as X-rated DVDs, web sites containing such materials, adult-oriented online video chat and sexually explicit content distributed via mobile telephone devices, in that, some Producers are, in effect, distributors, re-publishers, re-issuers and creators of derivative works of such materials (“Secondary Producers”) and such Secondary Producers usually do not have the original records pertaining to such materials as such records are almost always originally created and maintained by the Producers that actually originally create such materials (“Primary Producers”). Nevertheless, Secondary Producers are obligated to obtain such records to independently comply with the regulations pertaining thereto. Often the Primary Producers provide copies of the mandatory records required by the federal law for explicit materials to Secondary Producers. In many instances, this is difficult, time consuming and costly. For example, it is difficult, time consuming and costly to provide such records to video distributor e-trailers and other Secondary Producers that sell the Primary Producers' DVDs via the Secondary Producers' web sites, wherein the Secondary Producers display explicit trailers or explicit portions of the product packaging on the distributors' retail web sites, also known as e-tailing web sites. Further, broad distribution of the records to Secondary Producers, which include personal information of performers subjects the performers depicted in the subject material to potential identity theft and other violations of privacy rights.
The password system can be used in a variety of ways and can be coupled to the merchant or distributor offering a product or service for sale, the Producer or manufacturer of the product, both, or any combination thereof. With reference to FIG. 5, in some instances, the user can encounter limited information, such as advertising, which is appurtenant to a product or service the user may be interested in purchasing. For example, many Secondary Producers offering adult DVDs for sale via their web sites do so in conjunction with advertising on their web sites for the products, including a display of the product itself. In some instances, commercially effective advertisements for the products, such as trailers and some portions of the illustrations on the product boxes are age restricted or, if displayed on the distributor's web site would require the distributor to maintain federally mandated records associated with such advertisements pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §2257, 18 U.S.C. §2257A, and 28 CFR Part 75 et seq. For example, in accordance with current convention in the adult entertainment industry, illustrations of the back of most DVD shipper boxes contain explicit sexual depictions subject to 18 U.S.C. §2257 and 28 CFR Part 75 et seq. and/or/or 18 U.S.C. §2257A. If the user desires to see the back of the box or other explicit advertisements, such as trailers of the feature contained on the adult DVD that contain depictions of sexually explicit conduct, upon clicking on the ‘back of the box’ link or ‘an adults-only trailer’ link, the user is transmitted from the Secondary Producer third party computer (merchant/distributor) to the Primary Producer third party computer (content creator), i.e., appurtenant adult video content creator's web site or content server, wherein the user is advised that a password is required to view the material. In some embodiments, for clarification to the user, a message is displayed indicating that the user is “leaving the third party's (Secondary Producer's) web site and is being transmitted to the adult film company's (Primary Producer's) web site”. In this regard, the Secondary Producer has no control over the content displayed on the Primary Producer's web site, thereby diminishing potential direct and vicarious liability for the Secondary Producer.
In some preferred embodiments the service marketed to a user on either the Secondary Producer or Primary Producer's web site is a membership in a web site. In some such instances the web site owner may provide a tour that comprises materials that are age restricted and/or subject to 18 U.S.C. §2257 and 28 CFR Part 75 et seq. and/or/or 18 U.S.C. §2257A. In some preferred embodiments the user may obtain password access to such tours in the same manner as described above with regard to access to the aforesaid trailers and/or the backs of DVD boxes.
For example, with reference to FIG. 6, in some preferred embodiments a user visits a web site, X owned and operated by a Primary Producer and desires to “take the tour” offered by the Primary Producer as a marketing mechanism to promote the sale of a membership in the Primary Producer's web site 64. Upon selecting the tour option the user is asked if the user has an appropriate password 66. If the user has a valid password, the user enters the password and can access the tour 68. If the user's response indicates that the does not have an appropriate password, the user is asked if the user would like to obtain a membership in web site G which will issue a password to the user which may be used to obtain access to web site X's tour 70. In some preferred embodiments, the user is advised that the password appurtenant to membership in web site G will provide the user with access to many adult's only tours of many adult's only web sites. If the user desires to obtain such a membership in web site G, the user is transferred to the provider computer, which, in some preferred embodiments offers a password protected web site membership to web site G on which there is no depictions of sexually explicit content 72. After the user purchases the membership with a credit card or debit card, thereby providing recognized indicia of the user's adult status, and the user is issued a password 74. The password databases of both web site G and web site X are contemporaneously updated to recognize the user password and to provide access to the corresponding password protected areas of the respective G and X web sites. The user is then transferred back to the location at web site X where the user was previously prompted to enter a password and is again prompted to enter a password 76. Upon entering the password that was newly acquired from web site G, the updated password recognition system of web site X recognizes the user password and provides access to the adult's only tour on web site X.
In other preferred embodiments, in circumstances where the Secondary Producer is a seller of “video-on-demand” (“VOD”) performances of age or otherwise restricted prerecorded material subject to 18 U.S.C. §2257 and 28 CFR Part 75 et seq. and/or/or 18 U.S.C. §2257A the user may obtain a password to access such VOD performances in the same manner as described above with respect to access to the aforesaid trailers, backs of DVD boxes and web site tours.
With reference to FIG. 7, in some preferred embodiments, the password system and method can be utilized to facilitate the distribution of restricted content to mobile user computers 14 such as, mobile telephones, other hand held devices, and other wireless devices. In some of these embodiments, a user is located in a specific location 80 that requires the exclusion of minors by law or custom or would otherwise be clearly recognized as a location restricted to “adults only”. For example, inside an adult bookstore or adult DVD or video store, a gentleman's club, a bar, a nightclub or other place that serves alcoholic beverages, a casino, any “adult's only” section of a business or any other location in which minors are prevented from accessing. In these embodiments, the restricted location can register with the password system 20 such that its name, physical location and corresponding geophysical location data is stored in database 32 of the password system. Further, other third party databases 82 that maintain geophysical information for establishments and the corresponding global positioning satellite information can be utilized to provide such location data to the database of the password system.
10. The method system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the at least one processor further configured to allow access to the age-restricted content to the user upon the user having the valid password and inhibit access to the age-restricted content to the user upon the user having the expired password.
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