Patent ID: 8386316

Claim:
A method to operate a remote video resource access system, comprising: publishing an access link on a website to a video resource of a grantor; detecting, by the remote video resource access system, activation of the access link by a prospective grantee; obtaining the prospective grantee identity from a website user file to determine if the prospective grantee should be a grantee; determining, by the remote video resource access system, if the prospective grantee will have downloading access to the access link without requiring any payment from the prospective grantee or without the prospective grantee being subject to any advertising; determining, by the remote video resource access system, if the prospective grantee must provide payment for downloading access to the access link and collecting payment from the prospective grantee before providing downloading access to the access link; determining, by the remote video resource access system, if the prospective grantee will be subject to advertising and if so then providing an advertising opportunity to a prospective advertiser regarding the prospective grantee; and granting the prospective grantee video downloading access to the video resource of the grantor, within one or more limits imposed by the grantor on the scope of the video downloading access being offered, without permanent and inescapable association of an advertisement to the video resource of the grantor, giving the prospective grantee a choice of allowing or rejecting advertising to be shown during the access to the video resource of the grantor, using one or more data processing systems specifically programmed with software to implement these functions.