| 摘要 |
Method, device, and storage medium for providing a program service based on identifying a user at a user level versus at an account level or a device level. The user is identified based on an identifier associated with a mobile device. The program service allows the user to store program session information according to various user settings including location, time of day, user device used during previous session, type of program, and service provider that provides access to the program service. The program service allows the user to share program session information with other users or prevent other users from accessing the program session information. The program service provides digital rights management at the user level. |
| 主权项 |
1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a network device, log-in information to access a program service, wherein the log-in information includes a user identifier that uniquely identifies a user of a mobile device, and wherein the program service provides access to and use of programs that include multimedia content, wherein the multimedia content includes movies; authorizing, by the network device, access to the program service at a user level based on the user identifier; providing, by the network device, access to programs based on the authorizing; receiving, by the network device, a selection of a program; providing, by the network device, the program; collecting, by the network device, during the providing of the program, program session information pertaining to a consumption of the program by the user, wherein the consumption includes at least one of a viewing of or a listening to the program by the user; storing, by the network device, the program session information; providing, by the network device, a user interface that allows the user to store user settings, wherein the user settings include a user setting that indicates the program session information is private, and a user setting that indicates the program session information is not private; storing, by the network device, one of the user settings, which is specified by the user via the user interface; storing other program session information based on another user setting, wherein the other user setting indicates to store the other program session information based on at least one of a user location, a user device with which the user previously had a program session pertaining to another one of the programs, a type of program, or information indicating a service provider that the user uses to access the program service; and providing a user interface that allows the user to select the other program session information based on the other user setting. |
