Method and system for providing a generic program guide data from a primary content provider to a user network device through a partner service provider

摘要

A system and method for providing program guide data includes a partner service provider generating a request for a first encrypted token using a partner site identifier and a primary service provider having an authentication web service receiving the request for the first encrypted token. The primary service provider validates the partner site identifier, generates a first encrypted token at the authentication web service when the partner site identifier is valid and communicates the encrypted token to the partner service provider. The partner service provider requests program guide data from the primary service provider with the first encrypted token. The primary service provider communicates program guide data to the partner service provider. A user network device requests program guide data from the partner service provider. The partner service provider communicates the program guide data through the network. The user network device displays the program guide data on a display.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
at an authentication server of a primary service provider, receiving via a network an account identifier of a user from a user device; authenticating the account identifier at the authentication server; based on results of the authenticating, generating a request for a first encrypted token at a partner service provider based on a partner site identifier; communicating the request for the first encrypted token from the partner service provider to the authentication server, wherein the partner service provider is separate from the primary service provider, and wherein the user device, the partner service provider and the primary service provider communicate with each other via the network; validating the partner site identifier at the authentication server; generating the first encrypted token at the authentication server when the partner site identifier is valid; communicating the first encrypted token from the primary service provider to the partner service provider; generating a request for program guide data at the partner service provider based on the first encrypted token; communicating the request for the program guide data to the primary service provider; communicating the program guide data from the primary service provider to the partner service provider through the network; subsequent to the generating of the request for the program guide data at the partner service provider, receiving at the partner service provider a request from the user device for the program guide data; and communicating the program guide data from the partner service provider to the user device through the network.