Unified Rights Database for Multi-Provider Media Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems for accessing media content from subscription-based and transactional providers require users to manage multiple accounts and logins, leading to complexity and inconvenience, especially when content availability is restricted by time windows.
Innovation Solution
A rights database system that integrates subscription and transactional entitlements, allowing a single user account to access media content from multiple providers by verifying entitlements and availability, enabling seamless playback through a unified interface without separate logins.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users manage multiple accounts and logins for different content providers, then access to media content from multiple providers is enabled, but system complexity and user inconvenience increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple content provider accounts and their associated entitlements into a single unified account system. The rights database consolidates subscription and transactional entitlements from multiple providers, allowing users to access content from different providers through one login rather than managing separate accounts for each provider.
Solution Approach 2:
The unified account and rights database system performs multiple functions: it manages subscription entitlements, transactional entitlements, content availability windows, and playback permissions all through a single interface. This universal system replaces the need for separate account management systems for each content provider.
2Adaptability or versatility
If users manage multiple accounts and logins for different content providers, then access to media content from multiple providers is enabled, but user convenience deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple content provider accounts into a single unified account, eliminating the need for users to remember and manage multiple logins. The rights database consolidates all entitlements and permissions, allowing users to access content from different providers through one interface, significantly improving ease of operation.
3Reliability
If content availability is restricted by time windows, then content provider rights are protected, but user access flexibility is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The rights database dynamically manages content availability based on time windows and entitlement types. The system automatically adjusts access permissions based on subscription entitlements with specific availability windows and transactional entitlements, providing flexible user access while maintaining reliable protection of content provider rights through automated enforcement.
Data Source
AI summary
There is provided a system comprising a non-transitory memory storing a rights database and a hardware processor configured to receive a user input from a user device requesting playback of a media content, the media content being provided by a first type of content provider, perform a first search of the rights database for a first media content entitlement associated with the media content corresponding to the first type of content provider, if the first search does not find the first media content entitlement, perform a second search of the rights database for a second media content entitlement associated with the media content corresponding to a second type of content provider, and, when the second search finds the second media content entitlement, enable playback of the media content from a content provider that is the first type of content provider based on the second media content entitlement corresponding to the second type of content provider.