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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:
Feb. 03, 2015

Filed:

Dec. 13, 2012
Applicant:

Ericsson Television, Inc., Duluth, GA (US);

Inventors:

Alan Rouse, Lawrenceville, GA (US);

Charles Hammett Dasher, Lawrenceville, GA (US);

Assignee:

Ericsson Television Inc., Duluth, GA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/16 (2011.01); H04N 21/45 (2011.01); G06F 21/10 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4516 (2013.01); G06F 21/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

Various embodiments of the present invention relate to systems, methods, and computer-readable medium providing licensing rights for media content that follows a subscriber so that the subscriber may experience the media content on various content distribution platforms. In particular embodiments, the systems, methods, and computer-readable medium transfer licensing rights for a user for particular media content that is associated with a first device on a first distribution platform so that the rights are associated with a second device on a second distribution platform. As a result, in various embodiments, the user is able to experience the particular media content with the use of the second device on the second distribution platform.


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