Content management apparatus

摘要

There is disclosed an apparatus configured to provide a chart of content items to a plurality of user devices. The apparatus is configured to enable individual users to temporarily access one or more content items listed in the chart. The apparatus comprises a user device interface configured to communicate with user device applications and a permissions module configured to define user access permissions, including temporary user access permissions, relating to individual ones of the one or more items of content. The apparatus also provides a distribution module configured to implement permissions defined in the permission module in relation to user devices by making available one or more items of content listed in the chart to at least one user device application.

主权项

1. A method of providing one or more items of content from a presentable list or chart to a plurality of user devices, comprising:
defining, at a server, user access permissions, including temporary user access permissions, relating to one or more items of content; distributing to an application on a user device for storage thereon, the one or more items of content, as a plurality of fragments in a format capable of being played by the application providing temporary access to said one or more items of content by temporarily reconstituting a respective item of content from the plurality of constituent fragments based on the defined user access permissions; and after distributing the one or more items of content in the fragmented format and in response to a permission change or purchase event, instructing said application to convert the plurality of fragments into a permanent reconstructed format.