US 11,915,215 B2
System and apparatus for reselling digital media rights
Samir Mehta, Los Altos, CA (US); Laurent Piron, Aigle (CH); and Gary Susumu Sano, Pleasanton, CA (US)
Assigned to OPENTV, INC., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by OpenTV, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on May 21, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/303,156.
Application 17/303,156 is a continuation of application No. 13/749,350, filed on Jan. 24, 2013, granted, now 11,042,854.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/643,674, filed on May 7, 2012.
Prior Publication US 2021/0342801 A1, Nov. 4, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06Q 20/12 (2012.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04N 21/258 (2011.01); H04N 21/254 (2011.01); H04N 21/24 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/8355 (2011.01); G06F 21/10 (2013.01)
CPC G06Q 20/1235 (2013.01) [G06F 21/10 (2013.01); H04L 63/0823 (2013.01); H04L 63/10 (2013.01); H04N 21/2407 (2013.01); H04N 21/2541 (2013.01); H04N 21/25875 (2013.01); H04N 21/44204 (2013.01); H04N 21/8355 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a processor of a rights coordinator computing system via a network from a first user device of a first user, an indication to transfer a digital media right of the first user for a digital content;
responsive to the receiving of the indication, verifying, by a verification module of the rights coordinator computing system, authenticity of a digital certificate for the digital content;
in response to verifying the authenticity of the digital certificate, generating, by the rights coordinator computing system, a file describing the digital media right to the digital content owned by the first user;
responsive to the generating of the file, disabling, by a block module of the digital rights coordinator computing system, authorization of the first user to the digital content, the disabling comprising sending, to the first user device, a request to remove a license to the digital media right for the digital content at the first user device; and
based on an agreement to transfer the digital media right, transferring, by a transfer module of the rights coordinator computing system, the digital media right of the digital content from the first user to a second user.