PRESENCE AND PROXIMITY DRIVEN FILTERING OF APPLICATIONS AND MEDIA CONTENT

摘要

Access to certain application programs and/or media content items at or from an online storefront are granted or denied for a requesting computing device based on whether a subject computing device is present at or within a threshold proximity to a reference computing device or a reference location. The requesting computing device may include the reference computing device or another computing device.

主权项

1. A method for a server system hosting a media content storefront for audio and/or video content items accessible to computing devices via a communications network, the method comprising:
associating a first computing device with a second computing device; receiving a request initiated by the first computing device to the media content storefront via the communications network; detecting a proximity of the first computing device to the second computing device over one or more wireless communication links; responsive to the proximity detected between the first computing device and the second computing device being greater than a threshold, granting access to a limited set of audio and/or video content items of the media content storefront and denying access to other audio and/or video content items of the media content storefront for the first computing device initiating the request; and responsive to the proximity detected between the first computing device and the second computing device being less than the threshold, granting access to the limited set of audio and/or video content items and granting access to one or more of the other audio and/or video content items of the media content storefront for the first computing device initiating the request.