US 11,748,456 B2
Secure access to shared digital content
David Haydon, San Diego, CA (US); Monica Dabaghi, San Diego, CA (US); Urson Urbanik, San Diego, CA (US); Cullen Coughlin, San Diego, CA (US); and Yun Chen, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
Filed by Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Dec. 5, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/704,420.
Prior Publication US 2021/0173899 A1, Jun. 10, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 21/10 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 21/105 (2013.01) [G06N 20/00 (2019.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. In a server configured to operate on a network, a method for secured access to shared digital content, the method comprising:
in response to a request from a first user to access one or more content items belonging to a second user,
analyzing information about the first and second users with a neural network trained with a machine learning algorithm to determine a relationship between the first user and the second user wherein information about the first and second users includes whether the first user has access to a device of the second user or the second user has access to a device of the first user; and
granting the first user access to the one or more content items belonging to the second user based on the determined relationship and disabling the second user's access to the one or more content items belonging to the second user;
providing access to one or more assets purchased by the first user for the one or more content items belonging to the second user but not the first user;
disabling the first user's access to the one or more content items belonging to the second user when the second user requests access to the one or more content items and returning access of the one or more content items to the second user after access for the first user to the one or more content items to has been disabled.