US 12,355,846 B2
Provision of a lease for streaming content
Srinivas Vedula, Fremont, CA (US); Daniel P. Carter, San Jose, CA (US); Gianpaolo Fasoli, Redwood City, CA (US); Augustin J. Farrugia, Los Altos Hills, CA (US); and Eugene Jivotovski, Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 2, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/625,154.
Application 17/228,603 is a division of application No. 16/539,512, filed on Aug. 13, 2019, granted, now 10,979,529, issued on Apr. 13, 2021.
Application 16/539,512 is a division of application No. 14/871,567, filed on Sep. 30, 2015, granted, now 10,382,578, issued on Aug. 13, 2019.
Application 18/625,154 is a continuation of application No. 17/228,603, filed on Apr. 12, 2021, granted, now 11,956,323.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/171,884, filed on Jun. 5, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2024/0251019 A1, Jul. 25, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01); H04L 65/60 (2022.01); H04L 67/306 (2022.01); H04L 67/146 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 67/306 (2013.01) [H04L 9/3213 (2013.01); H04L 63/10 (2013.01); H04L 65/60 (2013.01); H04L 63/108 (2013.01); H04L 67/146 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for enabling a computing device associated with a user account to access content provided by a content provider, the method comprising, by an account server:
receiving, from the computing device, a request to access the content;
in response to receiving the request to access the content:
determining, based on one or more device slots associated with the user account and the content provider, that at least one device slot is available; and
in accordance with a determination that at least one device slot is available, providing, to the computing device, conditional access information (CAI) for receiving the content from the content provider, wherein the CAI:
(i) indicates that the user account is authorized to access the content, and
(ii) causes the computing device to provide the CAI to the content provider to enable the computing device to play back the content, wherein:
while a respective device slot of the one or more device slots associated with the user account is occupied by the computing device associated with the user account, the computing device is able to access second content different from the content using the respective device slot.