Out-of-band tokens for rights access

摘要

Access to content may be administered by storing content, the content comprising one or more selections, accessing a passive optical out-of-band token associated with the content, determining an access right for the content based on the passive optical out-of-band token, and enabling access to the content in accordance with the access right.

主权项

1. A method for enabling access to media content, the method comprising:
receiving, by a media content player, a request to access particular media content; receiving, by the media content player, a visual representation of an out-of-band token that both specifies (i) the particular media content and (ii) media content access rights to the particular media content and resides in a different format than a medium used to store the particular media content, where receiving the visual representation of the out-of-band token includes receiving the visual representation of the out-of-band token from an image detector, where receiving the visual representation of the out-of-band token from the image detector includes determining optical values at selected locations in the out-of-band token; determining, by the media content player, media content access rights to the particular media content from the visual representation of the out-of-band token that specifies (i) the particular media content and (ii) media content access rights to the particular media content; determining, by the media content player, whether the media content access rights to the particular media content determined from the visual representation of the out-of-band token specify that access to the particular media content is permitted; and in response to determining that the media content access rights to the particular media content determined from the visual representation of the out-of-band token specify that access to the particular media content is permitted, enabling, by the media content player, access to the particular media content through the media player.