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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2015
Dennis Vadura, Trabuco Canyon, CA (US);
Wei Kang Tsai, Irvine, CA (US);
Timothy Hayden Nelson, Orange, CA (US);
Dennis Vadura, Trabuco Canyon, CA (US);
Wei Kang Tsai, Irvine, CA (US);
Timothy Hayden Nelson, Orange, CA (US);
Badu Networks, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system, called Hub-TV system, allows a mass of consumers who individually owns a private infrastructure to share the burden of storing, searching, authentication, and delivery of digital media items, for the purpose of selling and distributing digital items over the Internet. The consumer may have previously purchased a media item and is compensated for contributing to redistribute the media item through his private infrastructure, which comprises server resources, storage resources, and bandwidth resources. A platform provider of a Hub-TV system provides the control and management functions to ensure that a plurality of broker agents, a plurality of delivery agents, a plurality of payment agents, and a mass of consumer-distributors, are compensated for their services in the Hub-TV system. A consumer who purchases a media item through a Hub-TV system may have to receive a play token, and optionally a decryption key to consume the purchased item.