Patent ID: 8849255

Claim:
A system comprising: a service computer configured to provide a subscription service to a subscriber computer via a network; and an event interface coupled to the service computer, wherein the event interface is configured to receive event information for a rules based event, wherein the subscription service includes communication of the event information to the subscriber computer; wherein the service computer is further configured to: determine a geographic location of the subscriber computer based on stored geographic information that is associated with an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the subscriber computer; determine a blackout geographic area of the subscription service and a blackout time of the subscription service; determine if the geographic location is within the blackout geographic area; determine if a time that the subscription service is to be provided to the subscriber computer is within the blackout time; deny the subscription service to the subscriber computer if it is determined that the geographic location is within the blackout geographic area and the time is within the blackout time; and provide a token uniform resource locator (URL) to the subscriber computer if it is determined that the subscriber computer is eligible to receive the subscription service, wherein the token URL is unique and specific to the IP address of the subscriber computer, and wherein unique identifier information corresponding to the rules based event is at an end of the token URL.