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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2014
Sonic Ip, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Sonic IP, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for accessing digital content using electronic tickets and ticket tokens are disclosed. In one system, a user device includes a processor, a network interface, and memory configured to store an electronic ticket, and a ticket token, and the processor is configured by an application to send a request for digital content, receive a ticket token from a merchant server, wherein the ticket token is generated by a DRM server and associated with an electronic ticket that enables playback of the requested digital content, send the ticket token to a DRM server, receive an electronic ticket that enables playback of requested digital content, request the digital content associated with the electronic ticket, and play back the requested digital content using the electronic ticket.