Patent ID: 7096203

Claim:
An apparatus for providing dynamic renewability for content provided from a content provider to a user, comprising: a content provider system, said content provider system including: a content server, to store and retrieving content items; a communication server, communicating with said user, said communication server receiving content items from said content server and communicating said content items to said user; and a license server, monitoring an amount and a type of content communicated to said user, said license server having stored thereon one or more license files, each said license file containing one or more parameters relating to one of said content items including information regarding the content and a date; and a user system, said user system including: a communication application, communicating with said communication server in order to receive content items and license files; a client application running on said user system receiving said license files and a user input and providing said user input to said communication application; a license storage, storing said one or more license files on said user system; a content information storage, storing information regarding content items requested by said user and received from said content provider system; and a registry storing said date; wherein said content provider system comprises a device to transmit said license files to said user without notifying said user.