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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2013
Verizon and Redbox Digital Entertainment Services, Llc, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Paul Bradley Bowers, Winfield, IL (US);
Joseph F. Ambeault, New York, NY (US);
Brian F. Roberts, Dallas, TX (US);
VERIZON AND REDBOX DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT SERVICES, LLC, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
An exemplary method includes a computer-implemented media service system 1) dividing a unitary media program into a plurality of contiguous segments, 2) forming, from the plurality of contiguous segments, a plurality of discrete installments of the unitary media program, and 3) providing an end user of a media service with installment-by-installment access to the plurality of discrete installments of the unitary media program. In certain examples, the method may further include the system providing an option for selection by the end user to access the unitary media program by way of a normal-access mode or an installment-access mode. The normal-access mode may be configured to facilitate a start-to-finish consumption of the unitary media program in a single playback session, and the installment-access mode may be configured to facilitate installment-by-installment consumption of the discrete installments of the unitary media program in multiple, discrete playback sessions.