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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019

Filed:

Feb. 24, 2016
Applicant:

At&t Intellectual Property I, Lp, Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Lee Chow, Naperville, IL (US);

David Piepenbrink, Denver, CO (US);

James Sofos, Aurora, IL (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 21/10 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04N 21/2225 (2011.01); H04N 21/438 (2011.01); H04N 21/472 (2011.01); H04N 21/6405 (2011.01); H04N 21/643 (2011.01); H04N 21/8355 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/10 (2013.01); H04L 63/10 (2013.01); H04N 21/2225 (2013.01); H04N 21/4383 (2013.01); H04N 21/47202 (2013.01); H04N 21/6405 (2013.01); H04N 21/64322 (2013.01); H04N 21/8355 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2101 (2013.01); H04L 2463/101 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a server having a controller to maintain content rights parameters associated with media content and a user where the content rights parameters include limits to distribution of the media content to a plurality of communication devices associated with the user and where a portion of the plurality of communication devices use different communication protocols from another portion of the plurality of communication devices, monitor for access to the media content by one communication device of the plurality of communication devices of the user, and obtain rights control data that is adapted to allow for presentation of the media content by the one communication device of the user where the rights control data is generated based on the content rights parameters. Other embodiments are disclosed.


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