Digital delivery system and user interface for enabling the digital delivery of media content

摘要

A system, method, and computer readable storage medium provide multi-platform accessibility of media content in a global computer network. Media content is selected in a client computer. Based on a format of the content, a media content player is loaded. If the content is not digital rights managements (DRM) protected, it is loaded and played in the player. If the content is DRM protected, a license to play the content is requested via an API and obtained via a server process. A web server computer creates/updates an authorized client user by communicating with a DRM server. The web server then creates a session with the DRM server and enables authorization to play by communicating with the DRM server that transmits the license to the client computer. Based on the license, the client loads and plays the content in the player.

主权项

1. A system for providing multi-platform accessibility of media content in a global computer network comprising:
(a) a client computer device configured to:
(i) select the media content to play;
based on a format of media content, loading, a media content player; (b) the media content player configured to:
(i) receive the media content from various servers that have cached the media content in a content delivery network;(ii) if the media content does not comprise digital rights managements (DRM) protected content, load and play, via a web server computer, the media content player; and(iii) if the media content comprises DRM protected content:
(A) request, via application programming interface (API) calls to a server process, a license to play the media content;(B) receive, from the server process, the license to play the media content, wherein the server process is configured to obtained the license by:
(1) a web server computer creating/updating an authorized client user by communicating with a DRM server;(2) the web server computer creating a session between the web server computer and the DRM server;(3) the web server computer enabling authorization to play the media content by communicating with the DRM server;(4) the DRM server transmitting the license to the client computer; and(C) based on the license, load and play, the media content.