DOMAIN SPANNING APPLICATIONS

摘要

Managing and accessing media items, including: a plurality of domains configured to provide access to media items; a plurality of clients associated with the plurality domains, and providing a pathway for accessing the media items; and a spanning application configured to track and aggregate accessible media items from the plurality of domains based on authentication and registration information and associated rights of the plurality of clients and the plurality of domains, wherein the spanning application enables accessing of the media items across the plurality of domains.

主权项

1. A domain spanning application, comprising:
an aggregation unit to track and aggregate accessible media items from a plurality of domains based on authentication and registration information, associated rights of a client device, and associated rights of a plurality of user accounts, wherein the accessible media items are aggregated into a single view on the client device, wherein the single view includes a view of rights to the accessible media items from the plurality of domains, and wherein the view of rights to the accessible media items is based on rights granted to the client device and based on rights granted to at least one of the plurality of user accounts; an accessing unit to access the aggregated media items from the plurality of domains by at least one of: maintaining the plurality of user accounts and domain credentials; and seamlessly removing and re-adding the client device to at least one of the plurality of user accounts and at least one of the plurality of domains necessary to provide access to the media items for the client device, wherein origins of the accessible media items accessed from the plurality of domains are transparent to a user of the client device such that the origins of the accessible media items are indistinguishable from any particular domain.