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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2004
Philip Ted Kortum, Austin, TX (US);
Marc Andrew Sullivan, Austin, TX (US);
James L. Cansler, Jr., Pflugerville, TX (US);
Alyssa Lenorah Noll Williams, Elmhurst, IL (US);
Philip Ted Kortum, Austin, TX (US);
Marc Andrew Sullivan, Austin, TX (US);
James L. Cansler, Jr., Pflugerville, TX (US);
Alyssa Lenorah Noll Williams, Elmhurst, IL (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A method of providing access to downloadable protected video content includes providing parental controls. The parental controls include a parental control password. Purchase controls are also provided and include a purchase control password. The purchase control password is different from the parental control password. Further, protected video content is downloaded and stored to a memory within a set top box when both the parental controls and the purchase controls are satisfied. A number of attempts to correctly input the parental control password or the purchase control password are monitored. When the number of attempts for either password exceeds a predetermined threshold, a user is prevented from further attempts to input the respective password. Moreover, the attempt to download protected video content is canceled, and further downloads of protected video content are prevented for a predetermined time period.