Content and identity delivery system for portable playback of content and streaming service integration

摘要

A disclosed system, method and computer readable storage medium includes downloading digital media content from a kiosk to a flash media or other secured portable memory or drive. User service information is also downloaded from the kiosk to the flash media that identifies a streaming service from which the user may also receive content. When the flash media is connected to a playback device, if the device is not connected to a network, the content is played back from the flash media. If the playback device is connected to a network, the streaming service is accessed using the user service information, and the streaming service streams the content to the playback device. In one implementation, the streamed content is of a higher quality (e.g., a high definition version) of the content that was downloaded to the flash media from the kiosk.

主权项

1. A method of delivering content by integrating a kiosk delivery system with a streaming service, the method comprising:
transferring content from a kiosk to a flash memory media device, wherein the flash memory media device is configured to be connected to a playback device; and transferring user service information, including user account information for one or more account based digital content streaming services, from the kiosk to the flash memory media device, wherein, responsive to the flash memory media device being connected to the playback device: if the playback device is connected to a network via a network connection having a speed that meets a threshold for streaming digital content, the transferred user service information from the connected flash memory media device is used to access at least one of the one or more account based digital streaming services to stream a higher quality version of the content to the connected playback device for playback, wherein the higher quality version of the content is a high definition version of standard definition content transferred from the kiosk to the flash memory media device, otherwise, the content stored on the connected flash memory media device is used for playback of the content.