Secure digital content licensing system and method
CA 2405489 C · Owner: Moviefly, Llc · Inventors: Russell, John Christopher Park; Outten, Todd Avery; Spaulding, Bryan Gentry
Overview
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Rental of the digital content occurs within an online environment including one or more user network-enabled devices and one or more server network devices connected by a communications link to the one or more user networkenabled devices. A user selects content displayed on a main website and requests download of the selected content to the user network-enabled device. To be able to access the content the user must obtain a license. The user's request for a license for specific content comprises information about a desired rental model, an expiration date for the rental model and information , that identifies the user's user network-enabled device along with other , information. A …
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- Filed April 6, 2001 and granted July 3, 2012. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 6, 2021.
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