The Directv Group, Inc.

At&t Intellectual Property I, LP

Directv, LLC

Movielink, LLC

Luan Le-Chau

Raynold M Kahn

Kapil Chaudhry

Ranny Q Sue

Cuong T Ly

Joel M Pamplona

Mark T Takamoto

Xin Ru Wang

Richard B Tatem

John P Godwin

Luke J Crook

Earl James Bonovich

Pankaj Sharma

Jonathan L Tronson

Michael Shu Xie

Atanu Basak

Sivasubramanian Venkataramani

Bryan Gentry Spaulding

Melissa H Tullues

Saranathan Govindarajan

Joseph Z Fung

Brian Moore

John D Ngo

Horia-Mihai Popa

Jason Christopher Tadros

Xin Wang

Shridhar Rangarajan

Connie C He

Hermilo C Crisostomo

Paul H Yang

Reza Pezeshki

Parag Agarwal

Kenneth Goeller

Guillermo Antonio Arguelles-Campoy

Bruce Anderson

Susan B Chuck

Jordan E Bigel

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a local server coupled to a plurality of client devices. The local server may receive encrypted content from one or more content sources and provide the content to the client devices. The local server and client devices may be part of a multi-client environment such as a hotel or conference center. The local server does not decrypt and re-encrypt content, thereby allowing the use of low cost equipment. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Secure content delivery to multiple client devices via a local server

A method and system for displaying an advertisement at a user device comprising receiving a content stream at the user device comprising an advertisement queuing point, monitoring the content stream for the advertisement queuing point at a client stream assembler module of the user device, communicating an advertisement query signal comprising client metadata from the client stream assembler module to a decision proxy, receiving an advertisement decision signal comprising an advertisement location identifier at the client stream assembler module, requesting an advertisement based on the advertisement location identifier and receiving and displaying the advertisement corresponding to the advertisement location identifier on a display associated with the user device.

Method and system for assembling content streams with advertisements from multiple advertisement vendors

In one example, the present disclosure describes a device, computer-readable medium, and method for multi-phase protection of digital content. For instance, in one example, a method includes receiving a request for digital content from a client device, initiating a digital content protection process comprising a plurality of phases, where each phase of the plurality of phases includes verifying credentials provided by the client device, delivering a plurality of seeds to the client device, wherein each individual seed of the plurality of seeds is delivered to the client device upon a successful completion of one phase of the plurality of phases, encrypting the digital content, using an encryption key derived using the plurality of seeds, to generate encrypted content, and delivering the encrypted content to the client device.

Multi-phase digital content protection

A method of provisioning entitlement including: receiving within a headend and at a policy management module first conditions and rules for content from a service provider or a third party device; and generating, for a point of presence (POP) device of a customer, a policy for entitlement and usage of content (merged policy). The generating of the merged policy includes: merging conditions and rules of policies including the first conditions and rules to generate the merged policy based on a predetermined hierarchy of the policies. Rules and conditions of the merged policy are multi-dimensional to include customer, POP device, and provider dimensions; and generating a configuration file including conditions or condition based parameters. The method further includes: presenting an offer for the content to the customer via the POP device; receiving an acceptance of the offer from the POP device; and enforcing the merged policy according to the configuration file.

Systems and methods for provisioning multi-dimensional rule based entitlement offers

A system and method for operating with profiles includes a head end associating a first account profile having first profile settings and a first identifier and a second account profile having second profile settings and a second identifier with a user account. A first user receiving device operates with the first profile settings. The head end communicates second profile settings to the first user receiving device and the first user receiving device operates with the second profile settings.

Method and system for operating user receiving devices with user profiles

A method for accurately determining the geographic location of a PC or other networked device on the Internet. Client software furnished by a service provider performs trace-route or other network analysis commands to known servers (e.g., eBay, Yahoo, Amazon) or even servers at random locations. The client collects an array of IP address and other network information as a result of the trace-routes, and the trace-route IP information is then transmitted to the service provider that is trying to identify the geographic location of the client. Using the array of IP addresses thus generated, the Internet server software can analyze location information of each Internet hop within each trace-route. For example, the server might look at the first five hops from the client to the server. If four of the five routers have addresses within the geographic area of interest, the server can conclude that the client is probably within the geographic area.

Network geo-location system

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Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Luan Le-Chau