Patent ID: 7664706

Claim:
A method for granting customers access to a broadcasted product or a set of broadcasted products, comprising: obtaining by a customer, a unique broadcast product authorization code, said broadcast product authorization code, being independent of a customer terminal, being associated to the broadcasted product or set of products, and indicating that said customer has duly acquired authorization to use said broadcasted product or set of products, providing by the customer through a communication network, the unique broadcast product authorization code together with information identifying a customer terminal to a registration center, transmitting said broadcast product authorization code from the registration center to an authorization center, retrieving a broadcast product identifier based on said broadcast product authorization code, through a data base or calculating said broadcast product identifier, the broadcast product identifier identifying the broadcasted product or the set of products, transmitting, by the authorization center, a terminal code to the customer terminal, said terminal code allowing access by the customer terminal to the broadcasted product or the set of products, and marking said broadcast product authorization code as used in the authorization center so that further presentation of said broadcast product authorization code will be denied.