Patent ID: 8346230

Claim:
A method of delivering geographically restricted content over a computer network to a recipient device in response to a content server coupled to the computer network receiving a request for the geographically restricted content, comprising: receiving a request for delivery of geographically restricted content from a recipient device over a computer network at a content server; continued receiving of over-air signal acquisition information from the recipient device indicative of whether the recipient device is located within a geographically restricted area for the requested geographically restricted content as a condition for continued delivery of the requested geographically restricted content, wherein the geographically restricted area is defined within a broadcast range of at least one broadcast antenna representative of a geographic area where a recipient device is only permitted to receive the geographically restricted content; and wherein the received over-air signal acquisition information comprises a selectively tuned over-air signal containing embedded information to be extracted identifying a broadcast station indicative of a geographic area location of the recipient device; determining if the recipient device is located within the geographically restricted area for the requested geographically restricted content based on the received over-air signal acquisition information; and delivering the requested geographically restricted content to the recipient device over the computer network only if the recipient device is located within the geographically restricted area for the requested geographically restricted content.