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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2015
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Jeromey Russell Goetz, Seattle, WA (US);
Christopher Shingee Park, Issaquah, WA (US);
Varadarajan Gopalakrishnan, Cupertino, CA (US);
AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are various embodiments for determining whether a client device is authorized to receive media content based at least in part on the call signs of broadcast stations that the client device is able to receive. A computing device receives a broadcast station identifier and a program identifier from a client computing device. The computing device determines that the client computing device is authorized to access media content identified by the program identifier based at least in part on the broadcast station identifier. Finally, the computing device streams the media content to the client computing device in response to determining that the client computing device is authorized to access the media content.